Through worship, rap and the spoken word the conference, held at Philadelphia Mennonite School, delivered a Christian message of peace, urging participants to 'pack the peace of Christ', instead of a gun.I don't care if they dance through life with eyes closed and arms upraised singing "Kumbaya," but they then go on to advocate a host of citizen disarmament edicts, that is, imposing their "religion" on the rest of us--under force of state arms.
In the words of a 1747 Philadelphia sermon:
"He that suffers his life to be taken from him by one who has no authority for that purpose, when he might preserve it by defense, incurs the Guilt of self murder since God has enjoined him to seek the continuance of his life, and Nature itself teaches every creature to defend [it]self."These fools can self-murder all they want and I won't force my will on them--just leave me and mine out of the equation.
I'm also reminded of a Woody Allen line:
"The lion will lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won’t get much sleep."
These knuckleheads are talking falsely. This is not the Christ I know.
ReplyDeleteStrange, but the Lord that I'm familiar with had said the following:
ReplyDelete“When a strong man armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace”
- Jesus, Luke 11:21
And;
Then said he unto them, "But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one".
- Jesus, whom is the Christ, Luke 22:36
One of His followers had written the following;
"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape....."
- Paul, 1 Thess. 5:3
I'll stick with the One that I'm familiar with, thanks.
RJ, I posted a couple of those incidents you wanted at the post Burt Constable Replies.
ReplyDeleteThanks, SA!
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