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[theweaselking]

There are those who would say that because Jesus did not carry a weapon when He walked the earth, then neither should we Christians who follow Him. Those who use this line of reasoning seem to forget that Jesus was God in the flesh and consequently did not need a weapon! Jesus was sent to save mankind by His crucifixion on Calvary; He would not have allowed His own death any other way. As for Jesus’ followers, they did carry weapons! Their weapon of choice was the Roman sword (probably the Roman short sword) that was then considered to be the most advanced personal military weapon of the day; the equivalent of the modern firearms we use today.

- from "God and the m60 machine gun", explaining why it is that Christ really, genuinely did want you to have automatic weaponry to use to shoot anyone who comes near your property.

Quoth the author about the M60: "WOW --- what a witnessing tool!"

Comments

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

What's interesting is that on the one occasion in the Bible when an Apostle uses a sword, Jesus rebukes him and heals the injury. What a cunt.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Forgot to link the whole article, before.

[anivair.livejournal.com]

true, but a valid point that the apostles did carry swords and jesus never had a problem with it until they tried to use them to stop his being arrested. I thinkt eh point being made is not that jesus was pissed off about the sword being used so much as the notion that it's use might prevent his being arrested and dying for mankind and all that.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Which is fascinating given that Jesus explicitly forbids his followers to resist acts of violence and theft against them...

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

This article is sooo wrong. Jesus always carried a switchblade in his shoe. Or was that Leroy Brown? Either way, they were both nasty street fighters. Always fighting dirty...