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duster LNF House Leader Offline Posts: 8,902 south Dakota Gender:	Essay on guns and Christianity Apr 14^th, 2012 at 10:35am Interesting read that is certainly applicable today. http://americanvision.org/2342/“bring-your-pieces-to-church”-sunday/
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Re: Essay on guns and Christianity
Reply #1 - Apr 14^th, 2012 at 12:46pm

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Imagine! Imagine the government poking its nose in every year not to register and license weapons for possible future confiscation, but to ensure that each house indeed possessed weapons. Imagine that instead of imposing fees for licensing schemes, the government levied fines for not owning a firearm. This was the case in Massachusetts in 1644. The state required that “every freeman or other inhabitant of this colony provide for himself and each under him able bear arms a sufficient musket and other serviceable piece” as well as “two pounds of powder and ten pounds of bullets.”[3] Those who neglected this duty could receive fines up to ten shillings (for laborers, roughly a day’s wages).

Hey...it's the individual mandate again. Grin

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Boss Bob Ex Member	Re: Essay on guns and Christianity Reply #2 - Apr 14^th, 2012 at 12:47pm duster wrote on Apr 14^th, 2012 at 10:35am: Interesting read that is certainly applicable today. http://americanvision.org/2342/“bring-your-pieces-to-church”-sunday/ Interesting christo-fascist website though.
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glen65 Hardhat LNF Bunker Offline Posts: 15,567 North Central Ohio Gender:	Re: Essay on guns and Christianity Reply #3 - Apr 14^th, 2012 at 1:25pm Quote: Hey...it's the individual mandate again. No
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Mercy For All Hardhat The Writer's Croft LNF Bunker Offline Be completely alive until you're completely dead. Posts: 36,969 Gender:	Re: Essay on guns and Christianity Reply #4 - Apr 14^th, 2012 at 1:33pm Carrying a weapon for self-preservation has nothing to do with Christianity. If it did, you would find it advocated in the Bible. This is an example of a cultural idea being stamped with the label "Christian."
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Re: Essay on guns and Christianity
Reply #5 - Apr 14^th, 2012 at 1:35pm

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Hey...it's the individual mandate again. Grin

No Boss Bob. Let me explain it to you. If any dictator, or king in those days tried to take America the way Castro took Cuba, will have every living man shooting at him. The Jews learned a very hard lesson in WW2. They will never be led to slaughter again. You invade Israel today, and you will have every man woman and child shooting at you. And the US with its armed citizens is now the largest army in the world. And I know that no dictator is taking us over and live to tell about it. This is why you are still free to do as you wish,( within the law) and say what ever you care to. When only the government has guns, it is tyranny, when the people have guns, it is freedom.
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Re: Essay on guns and Christianity
Reply #6 - Apr 14^th, 2012 at 1:45pm

Mercy For All wrote on Apr 14^th, 2012 at 1:33pm:

Carrying a weapon for self-preservation has nothing to do with Christianity. If it did, you would find it advocated in the Bible. This is an example of a cultural idea being stamped with the label "Christian."

It is.
Luke 22; 36
Jesus said" take a duffel bag if you have one, and your money. And if you don't have a sword, better sell your clothes and buy one"

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Mercy For All Hardhat The Writer's Croft LNF Bunker Offline Be completely alive until you're completely dead. Posts: 36,969 Gender:	Re: Essay on guns and Christianity Reply #7 - Apr 14^th, 2012 at 1:46pm duster wrote on Apr 14^th, 2012 at 1:45pm: It is. Luke 22; 36 Jesus said" take a duffel bag if you have one, and your money. And if you don't have a sword, better sell your clothes and buy one" Really? You're going to cherry-pick that verse to maintain that guns should be brought to church for self-defence?
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duster LNF House Leader Offline Posts: 8,902 south Dakota Gender:	Re: Essay on guns and Christianity Reply #8 - Apr 14^th, 2012 at 1:48pm Mercy For All wrote on Apr 14^th, 2012 at 1:46pm: Really? You're going to cherry-pick that verse to maintain that guns should be brought to church for self-defence? Must be viewed in the context of the time and the weapons in use.
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Re: Essay on guns and Christianity
Reply #9 - Apr 14^th, 2012 at 1:55pm

duster wrote on Apr 14^th, 2012 at 1:48pm:

Must be viewed in the context of the time and the weapons in use.

And in the context of the rest of scripture. Jesus also told his (12) disciples that two swords were "enough," knowing that they would face a mob of the Temple guard and probably others. When Peter used one of those swords on the ear of a slave, Jesus healed the slave and told Peter to put away the sword.

Given that context, taking that one verse and making it mean what you say it must mean certainly seems illegitimate.

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