Why We Refuse to Fight- Servile Christians embrace surrender as a virtue [More]
A 1747 Philadelphia sermon comes to mind:
"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 itself."
[Via Michael G]
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"A press release issued by the United Methodist News Service quoted one anti-gun delegate, the Rev. Beverly Wilkes of Springfield, Illinois, as "calling for America to disarm itself," with policing left to the professionals and private gun ownership limited to hunters. On the other side, pro-gun delegate Rev. Scott Kelso of Pataskala, Ohio, wondered, "if someone breaks into my home in the middle of the night to do bodily harm to myself or my wife," what good it would do to "pull out the Book of Resolutions and say, 'Wait a minute, I¹m a United Methodist. I¹ve got a position on this.'"
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