{"id":1650,"date":"2013-01-17T23:02:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T04:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2013-01-17T23:02:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T04:02:36","slug":"what-kind-of-faith-needs-guns-in-its-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2013\/01\/17\/what-kind-of-faith-needs-guns-in-its-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"What kind of faith needs guns in its defense?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1656\" style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2013\/01\/crazyguy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1656\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2013\/01\/crazyguy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2013\/01\/crazyguy1.jpg 615w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2013\/01\/crazyguy1-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">So this is what Jesus meant when he said this? \u201cBut 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.&#8221; Luke 22:36.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I find this very disturbing. But I can imagine that if I were a Christian I&#8217;d find it even more disturbing. A politician tells a\u00a0Christian talk radio show<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/01\/17\/california-lawmaker-guns-are-essential-to-living-the-way-god-intended\/\"> this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>&#8220;[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.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>And the host calls it a &#8220;benediction&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find this very disturbing. But I can imagine that if I were a Christian I&#8217;d find it even more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}