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    • What kind of faith needs guns in its defense?

    By No Such Thing As Blasphemy • • 4 comments
    So this is what Jesus meant when he said this? “But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it and likewise his pack; and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.” Luke 22:36.

    I find this very disturbing. But I can imagine that if I were a Christian I’d find it even more disturbing. A politician tells a Christian talk radio show this:

    “[Guns] are used to defend our property and our families and our faith and our freedom, and they are absolutely essential to living the way God intended for us to live.”
    And the host calls it a “benediction”.

     

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    Article by: No Such Thing As Blasphemy

    I was raised in the Islamic world. By accident of history, the plague that is entanglement of religion and government affects most Muslim majority nations a lot worse the many Christian majority (or post-Christian majority) nations. Hence, I am quite familiar with this plague. I started doubting the faith I was raised in during my teen years. After becoming familiar with the works of enlightenment philosophers, I identified myself as a deist. But it was not until a long time later, after I learned about evolutionary science, that I came to identify myself as an atheist. And only then, I came to know the religious right in the US. No need to say, that made me much more passionate about what I believe in and what I stand for. Read more...