Guns and Christians

"The bottom line here is that as a Christian, as someone who calls Jesus Lord, you simply do not get to appeal to your “right” to kill someone with your gun in self-defense. You lose that right when you give your life to Christ. It is really that simple. To hold on to your gun as Charlton Heston says, until it is “pulled from your cold dead hand” is to hold on to your sin, just as much as it would be to hold on to your riches or hold on to your sexual exploits instead of following Jesus. This needs to be said. We should not kid ourselves and think we can hold on to our swords and still follow Jesus. There is a clear and direct conflict here, and to ignore it is to ignore Jesus as Lord." Christ vs the Constitution: Why Christians Do Not Have the Right to Bear Arms ☀

Guns and Gay Marriage

"Ha! As an atheist, I support the right to own properly licensed guns for self protection. It's logical to maximize one's chances of survival while being attacked.


But imagine the religious hypocrisy of opposing gay marriage license based on a few obscure copy-paste passages regarding gay sex (the question of gay MARRIAGE is not even mentioned in the Bible), but ignoring one of the 10 Commandments... something about not killing? In fact, seems to me that the Jesus opposed killing in self defense as well. Something about turning the other cheek, I believe?


If you are Christian, and you love gun ownership, but hate gay marriage, you haven't been reading your religious manual." Friend S. Via Facebook


* Slightly edited, one word taken out.

Manifest Destiny Is Unbiblical, Unjust

“Manifest Destiny became a commonly held ideology in the early 19th century and was the belief that the United States had a God-given right to aggressively spread values of white civilization across the land mass of the North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. It wreaked havoc on creation and entire communities of indigenous Americans including the Five Civilized Tribes, who were forcibly removed or annihilated based on the assumption that they were an impediment to God’s purposes being realized. Manifest Destiny justified the conquering of the indigenous peoples of Texas, New Mexico, California, and other parts of the Southwest; and the inclusion of the Oregon territory in the United States. Christians must confess the many ways we have contributed to this tragic history by acknowledging and repenting of our sins. We need to repent of our attitudes about the divine right of conquest, white supremacy, ethnic superiority, Manifest Destiny, the pursuit of wealth, and the brutalization, domination, and murder of thousands of Native people who have lived before us." Mae Elise Cannon ☀