golddigger14s
Activist Member
Steve Lee can lead our choir:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TC2xTCb_GU&list=TLxsfuF1mCfxY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TC2xTCb_GU&list=TLxsfuF1mCfxY
Uh, what do I have to do to qualify? I OC'd without issue at the Woodland Park Zoo, and The Museum of Flight?
There already is such a religion although few who claim to be adherents really follow it. The name? Christianity.
Check out Luke 22:36.
And, yes, I do appreciate the humor in this thread.
Questionable at best, It seems Mathew, Mark, and John didn't see it fit to insert that tidbit in their accounts, and doesn't Jesus say in Mathew that all who live by the sword shall perish by it?
Living by and using one for self defense or for our natural right of resistance are two very separate things.
Well, we have the guy who was murdered by police at Costco.Citizen said:Nobody will take us seriously unless we have a martyr.
Volunteers?
Living by and using one for self defense or for our natural right of resistance are two very separate things.
Heh, heh, heh. I would say that was using a rhetorical sword to cleave his similarity into distinctions.
I understand that, I'm simply pointing out the fallacy in claiming that Christianity uniquely endorses ownership of arms based off of one verse taken out of its context.
:lol: I see what you did there.
The context is that he was leaving and not going to be around to protect them, they were his followers and he told them to arm themselves, christian means a follower of christ....seems pretty christian to me. It was said right along with having money and food.
It's also interesting that they already had swords with them when Jesus asked if they had any, he didn't condemn them for that. He was also a Jew and there are many references to personal weapons being owned and kept in the "old testament".
Have you read Luke? Right in the beginning he tells you why many of the things were included in his account and not in others.
You didn't point out the fallacy what you did was compare it to another scripture taken out of context.
He also reproached Peter for using said swords in the garden. And said to turn the other cheek, and to allow the aggressor to take your cloak to avoid violence. He says this during the sermon on the mount (which Luke says happened on a plain btw)
Being most generous John MAYBE was an eyewitness to Christ. The other writers are all detached from Jesus himself. The Luke believed to have written that gospel was an accomplice of Paul, who himself never personally witnessed the life of Jesus. Yes to answer your question I have read Luke, and the other three. And got to hear the official party line on all four when I took confirmation classes to be confirmed into the Catholic Church.
With enough reading the bible can be stretched to mean whatever you want it to mean. It's used to argue for and against the death penalty, for and against wars of aggression, for and against eating meat.... Any issue you can think of someone can string together a semi credible biblical argument
like some religions require carrying a knife
or wearing a turbine?
Wow... Okay I'm down
-Matt of Hillsboro OR-
He also reproached Peter for using said swords in the garden. And said to turn the other cheek, and to allow the aggressor to take your cloak to avoid violence. He says this during the sermon on the mount (which Luke says happened on a plain btw)
Being most generous John MAYBE was an eyewitness to Christ. The other writers are all detached from Jesus himself. The Luke believed to have written that gospel was an accomplice of Paul, who himself never personally witnessed the life of Jesus. Yes to answer your question I have read Luke, and the other three. And got to hear the official party line on all four when I took confirmation classes to be confirmed into the Catholic Church.
With enough reading the bible can be stretched to mean whatever you want it to mean. It's used to argue for and against the death penalty, for and against wars of aggression, for and against eating meat.... Any issue you can think of someone can string together a semi credible biblical argument
No volunteers for martyr, eh? Alright, we can come back to that.
We're also going to need a set of holy days for celebration.
Of course, I recommend the birthdays of John Browning and Sam Colt. Any others?
Also, we'll want to establish quickly some feast traditions. For example, I'm partial to pulled-pork barbeque, and wouldn't object to a Spring feast based on that. With hush-puppies, deviled eggs, and cobbler. (Damn, I just made myself hungry. )
Separately, I'm not real big on wine, so I would like to see bourbon* included in any ceremonies.
*Yesterday's Washington Times ran an article on a distillers. Did you know that Kentucky's distillers have a combined 4.7 million barrels of bourbon aging right now? And, Kentucky only has a population of 4.2 million people. They have more barrels of whiskey than they have people!! I think they're gonna need help drinking all that. One of our first charitable works could be to go to Kentucky and help them get the whiskey barrel problem under control.
The five Pillars of open carry
1)Confession of the constitution
2)Regular practice of carry
3)Fasting during daylight hours of the SHOT show
4)Charitable giving of holsters and ammunition to those less fortunate
5)The Pilgrimage to kentucky at least once in their lifetime to sample that bourbon...
Sounds painful, like sticking your head in a wood chipper.
No volunteers for martyr, eh? Alright, we can come back to that.
We're also going to need a set of holy days for celebration.
Of course, I recommend the birthdays of John Browning and Sam Colt. Any others?
Also, we'll want to establish quickly some feast traditions. For example, I'm partial to pulled-pork barbeque, and wouldn't object to a Spring feast based on that. With hush-puppies, deviled eggs, and cobbler. (Damn, I just made myself hungry. )
Separately, I'm not real big on wine, so I would like to see bourbon* included in any ceremonies.
*Yesterday's Washington Times ran an article on a distillers. Did you know that Kentucky's distillers have a combined 4.7 million barrels of bourbon aging right now? And, Kentucky only has a population of 4.2 million people. They have more barrels of whiskey than they have people!! I think they're gonna need help drinking all that. One of our first charitable works could be to go to Kentucky and help them get the whiskey barrel problem under control.
The five Pillars of open carry
1)Confession of the constitution
2)Regular practice of carry
3)Fasting during daylight hours of the SHOT show
4)Charitable giving of holsters and ammunition to those less fortunate
5)The Pilgrimage to kentucky at least once in their lifetime to sample that bourbon...
No volunteers for martyr, eh? Alright, we can come back to that.
SNIP...Well, we have the guy who was murdered by police at Costco.
We have any number of citizens who have been injured or killed by police breaking into the wrong house & shooting residents.
We're also going to need a set of holy days for celebration.
Of course, I recommend the birthdays of John Browning and Sam Colt. Any others?
SNIP...Also, we'll want to establish quickly some feast traditions. For example, I'm partial to pulled-pork barbeque, and wouldn't object to a Spring feast based on that. With hush-puppies, deviled eggs, and cobbler. (Damn, I just made myself hungry. )
The five Pillars of open carry
1)Confession of the constitution OF THE UNITED STATES, AND STRICT ADHERENCE TO THE SAME
2)Regular practice of carry
3)Fasting during MIDDAY hours of the SHOT show
4)Charitable giving of holsters and ammunition to those less fortunate
5)The Pilgrimage to kentucky at least once in their lifetime to sample that bourbon...