{"id":1843,"date":"2013-01-28T13:44:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T18:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2013-01-28T13:54:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T18:54:01","slug":"gun-control-a-violation-of-biblical-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2013\/01\/28\/gun-control-a-violation-of-biblical-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun control a violation of biblical rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Priests, allies of fascists during the Spanish civil war.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

David French, senior counsel at Pat Robertson’s American Center for Law and Justice (whom we’ve met before<\/a>), adds his voice\u00a0in a recent article to the chorus <\/a>of those using religious language to oppose gun control. French uses the context of “self defense” to\u00a0justify his views. He starts by quoting\u00a0National Cathederal’s\u00a0Gary Hall:<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone in this city seems to live in terror of the gun lobby . . . but I believe that the gun lobby is no match for the cross lobby.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

French then proceeds to quote a number of biblical quotes endorsing self defense from the Old Testament. When it comes to the New Testament, he adds this:<\/p>\n

\u00a0In fact, Jesus\u2019s disciples carried swords<\/a>, and Jesus even said in some contexts the unarmed should arm themselves<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, someone might say in a religion that preaches “turning the other cheek” and\u00a0“loving your enemy”,\u00a0the instruction to be armed\u00a0is a little bit of a contradiction…but we’ll let that go for now. French concludes:<\/p>\n

In other words, I don\u2019t think Reverend Hall should be so confident that the \u201ccross lobby\u201d is on his side.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

French’s attack on Hall showcases my main argument <\/a>against liberal religion. Through playing up the religious language and naming the bible as the source of morality, moderates like Hall open the door to extremists like French. Which is why I call the likes of Gary Hall “enablers”.<\/p>\n

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David French, senior counsel at Pat Robertson’s American Center for Law and Justice (whom we’ve met before), adds his voice\u00a0in…<\/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-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","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=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}