He maketh me lie down on green Astroturf? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column examines the roots of what was touted a short time ago as a growing religious movement, and notes it may not have sprouted so much as been installed.
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
Brady anti-gun ‘faith’ coalition fails to stir evangelical fervor in multitudes
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That is great! The Bradys won't gain much ground among those of us in the evangelical/fundamentalist churches. Almost all the people I have known from the churches I have attended are strongly pro-RKBA. That anti-gun garbage may work for a while among the left-leaning mainline denominations, but not among the evangelicals.
There's a local church whose July 4th weekend theme was "God, Guns, Gold and Grub."
My tribe, when it comes time that we need each other.
Which I think will be a matter of a few months, not years.
You may be familiar with THIS piece of work that denies everything WE KNOW about the Founders to conclude that the Second Amendment protects the "right" to have a firearm at home ONLY in case one is summoned for military service in a government militia. A guy who considers himself pro-freedom cited it. I am not encouraged.
http://www.potowmack.org/emerappa.html#conclu
As GOK says, waste of time most likely. The social justice churches are already on board but most evangelical groups won't be interested.
The only place I'd see them gaining ground is in "Churchanity" social club moderate/rino type groups. Aka a church with a lot of female influence.
Over at opposingviews.com, I'm seeing many socialists saying the Constitution is flawed and outdated precisely because it WAS the work of religious and religiously-inspired men, who they consider deluded fools. That would mean Man is the ultimate authority of right and wrong. Well, Man is as likely to produce a Mussolini as a Mother Theresa.
I have no objection to atheism as a private matter, but when they call for ALL the laws to be based on THEIR worldview, while over half of America professes some kind of religious belief, and call it democracy...
And won't tolerate debate...
Then there are the Christians who believe the mistranslation of "Thou shalt not kill" when more accurately it is "Thou shalt not MURDER."
Looking through Leon Uris's "Mila 18" about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, I see a meek librarian character write in his journal "When WILL we shoot?" A character learning that the librarian has died in a raid on the Reinhard Battalion tasked with eliminating the resisting Jews says "I should have started the day I saw them take my sister."
A Nazi commander is warned by a superior that he himself helped propagate the myth of "Jewish cowardice" and that failure in Warsaw would unite the Jews worldwide by giving a shining example to the world that there still exists the Hebrew warrior culture that more than once nearly toppled Rome.
Whether the Egyptian revolutionaries are fighting to oust a dictator of 30 years OR to install an Islamofascist government, they are being applauded all over the world. A featured protestor talks a good game: "We will not be silenced! Whether you are a Christian, a Muslim or an atheist, you will fight for your goddamned rights. You will HAVE your goddamned rights."
Another seems to say "For my son and I ... I will die today."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC0NldhTZ7A
Now consider that in our country Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, and the "No socialism, please" Tea Party peaceful marchers, are accused of being violent riot-inciting haters.
This is rich. The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence is all upset over the Internet and cell phone service being cut off over there, and urges Americans to help. Apparently it's an important part of being free or something, unlike gun ownership.
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/internet-down-you-can-help-egyptians-reconnect
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