Posted on 03/25/2012 4:46:34 PM PDT by careyb
Appearing on This Week With Christanne Amanpour George Stephanopoulos, noted theologian Matthew Dowd decried the "irony" that certain legislators and governors who "push for" gun rights also "push for" prayer in school.
It actually gets better.
Thus spake Dowd: "We wanna be a Christian nation and we wanna act in a Christian manner but, oh by the way, we don't believe in the 'Turn your other cheek' and we don't believe in 'Love your enemy', we believe in loading citizens and basically giving them an opportunity to shoot people."
Apologies for his tortured use of the English language and misquotation of Scripture, but that is an exact quotation.
In other words, in the mind of Matthew Dowd, it is a Christian virtue to be the victim of a violent crime without defending yourself.
For real.
In his defense, he was speaking on a Sunday morning, so maybe he thought he was qualified to teach something about Biblical principles.
Sound doctrine, brother.
Everyone knows that God gave His only begotten Son so that all who trust Him should stand idly by while being raped, assaulted, or beaten.
God love ya, Deacon Dowd.
Can I get a witness?
36Then 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.
I am a Christian, born-again and ready for the Rapture. Also gettin’ ready to stand armed and ready to protect my family against those who would try to harm them.
In Glock I trust. Supernatural imaginary boogie man...not so much.
Turn the other cheek refers to taking an insult and not insulting back.
You are certainly allowed, some may say obligated, to defend innocent life (your own and others’) by the Bible.
Anyone who takes some time to read the Bible would know that.
Turn the other cheek refers to taking an insult and not insulting back.
You are certainly allowed, some may say obligated, to defend innocent life (your own and others’) by the Bible.
Anyone who takes some time to read the Bible would know that.
Ecclesiastes 3:
To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven . . .
A time to kill,
And a time to heal . . .
A time to love,
And a time to hate;
A time of war,
And a time of peace.
Luke 22:
Then He said to them, “But now, he who has a money bag, let him take it, and likewise a knapsack; and he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.
For I say to you that this which is written must still be accomplished in Me: ‘And He was numbered with the transgressors.’ For the things concerning Me have an end.”
So they said, “Lord, look, here are two swords.” And He said to them, “It is enough.”
Not being a cafeteria Christian, I take the entire Bible as guidance. There is a significant element of forgiveness and turning the other cheek, but there is also more than enough approval for using weapons when necessary. The Bible is not for sissies or for wimps.
Plenty of Christians do this. Plenty protect themselves and their families. At one time most Americans would not have killed a criminal and crime was rare. But then the sixties came and the radical slaughter began.
Blacks murdered more white Americans between the 60’s and 80’s than were Americans killed in Viet Nam. At that point, Americans realized self defense was necessary to survive in the Leftist’s new America. This slaughter was revealed in an article called “America’s silent civil war.”
“Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.”
Matthew Dowd? I thought it said Maureen and I was here for the pictures. Goodbye.
Buffalo chips!!!!
By this idiots logic the gas chambers would be going full blast right now.
Tell that to my homeschooling stay at home wife of four children, the shotgun is loaded!
I pray daily, that I never have to *use* such weapons I have, for the purpose for which I obtained them. But, if that prayer is unanswered, use them I will...
the infowarrior
Luke 22: 35-38
35] And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.
[36] 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.
[37] For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.
[38] And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.
Full agreement infowarrior. I pray to never have to make that choice, and cannot say what would do, for that choice is not one I wish on anyone who carries lawfully. Prayers for no choice having to be made, ever, by those of us who carry.
Outstanding op-ed! [Bible and self defense by Farah]
Thank you.
Another Limp-Dick opinion from a half-assed “conservative”.
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