“The left is successfully hedging their bet that conservatives/Constitutionalists will not fight back when the time comes...They may actually be right, even when their actions and preparations are to take lives of people of that political, moral position”
Here is the sticky wicket. If many Christian conservatives, especially American Catholics start being attacked and killed specifically for their faith, they’ve been taught to follow Jesus’ example and go to their deaths rather than kill the unbeliever. It is okay to defend one’s family against the marauder and to lay one’s life down for your kids and defend them, yet the faith issue is seen by our secularist detractors as our Achilles heel. Speak ill of measures allowing Gays access to our society in libertine ways, we are called “haters who are false to what real Christians” “should be”! Thus we cower to such manipulative accusations.
Many of our ministers, pastors, and priests have become “religious Phil Donahues” who call for “tolerance” and confuse their flocks as to how to deal with real evil. They aren’t teaching their flocks about the Hebrew midwives who defied Pharoah, feared God and would not kill the Hebrew new born males. We aren’t being taught to fear God more than man!
I’m sure some day God, Jesus and I will have a great conversation about interpretation of what is right and wrong in cases like this...
Then we’ll all go fishing...I look forward to that time together...I know I will not be alone...
I also am confident that God never wanted us to be fatalistic, or so sacrificial with the gift of life and a soul for that matter...Yes, it is honorable and faithful to sacrifice yourself for others, including family in the taking of a life to protect others and the innocent...
If God doesn’t want me to act in that capacity, he will make the other person faster than I and I will lose my life...That is an acceptable outcome...
If I manage to survive an encounter with someone who wishes to make a bad decision and credibly threaten myself, or others in my vicinity...And they are on the receiving end of my action to defend myself...then I do not see that as something difficult to discuss with the Almighty later on...
Our God is a fair judge, his instructions and wish for us to be honorable to the gift he has given us is clear...If I err, I stand tall to be corrected by an authority higher than ANY government/laws instituted among men...
Just my opinion...;-)