Comments on: WWJD http://www.saysuncle.com/2009/10/15/wwjd/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:28:54 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: hsoi http://www.saysuncle.com/2009/10/15/wwjd/comment-page-1/#comment-230468 hsoi Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:34:39 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=29861#comment-230468 From the Catechism of the Catholic Church: http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a5.htm ----- 2265 Legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for one who is responsible for the lives of others. The defense of the common good requires that an unjust aggressor be rendered unable to cause harm. For this reason, those who legitimately hold authority also have the right to use arms to repel aggressors against the civil community entrusted to their responsibility. ----- Give the whole thing a read. You don't have to agree with it, but it gives a rather plain explanation of how Christians (or at least, Catholics) view self-defense. Helmke has no idea what he's talking about, but we already knew that. From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a5.htm

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2265 Legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for one who is responsible for the lives of others. The defense of the common good requires that an unjust aggressor be rendered unable to cause harm. For this reason, those who legitimately hold authority also have the right to use arms to repel aggressors against the civil community entrusted to their responsibility.
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Give the whole thing a read. You don’t have to agree with it, but it gives a rather plain explanation of how Christians (or at least, Catholics) view self-defense. Helmke has no idea what he’s talking about, but we already knew that.

]]> By: Eagle 1 http://www.saysuncle.com/2009/10/15/wwjd/comment-page-1/#comment-230438 Eagle 1 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:06:47 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=29861#comment-230438 If someone is OK with dying to make the moral (turn-the-other-cheek) point that any and all violence is bad, I'd say let 'em. It's called thinning the herd. Eagle 1 If someone is OK with dying to make the moral (turn-the-other-cheek) point that any and all violence is bad, I’d say let ‘em. It’s called thinning the herd.

Eagle 1

]]> By: Joanna http://www.saysuncle.com/2009/10/15/wwjd/comment-page-1/#comment-230433 Joanna Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:00:41 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=29861#comment-230433 Wasn't there something about "If you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one"? Wasn’t there something about “If you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one”?

]]> By: Huck http://www.saysuncle.com/2009/10/15/wwjd/comment-page-1/#comment-230431 Huck Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:54:56 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=29861#comment-230431 What I find disgusting in this is that these liberals, who're anti-religion, have the gall to attempt to use religion to further their anti-Constitution agenda. What I find disgusting in this is that these liberals, who’re anti-religion, have the gall to attempt to use religion to further their anti-Constitution agenda.

]]> By: karrde http://www.saysuncle.com/2009/10/15/wwjd/comment-page-1/#comment-230404 karrde Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:32:37 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=29861#comment-230404 There is a difference between an insult ("if a man slaps you, turn the other cheek"), and a threat to life and limb. Some people have a hard time understanding that. There is a difference between an insult (”if a man slaps you, turn the other cheek”), and a threat to life and limb.

Some people have a hard time understanding that.

]]> By: Chas http://www.saysuncle.com/2009/10/15/wwjd/comment-page-1/#comment-230403 Chas Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:25:40 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=29861#comment-230403 Markie Marxist sez: "Of course private gun owners should turn the other cheek and give up their guns. It'll make it easier to get them and their families into government re-education camps, were we can use the traditional Marxist method of dealing with political opposition - shooting them in the back of the head." Markie Marxist sez: “Of course private gun owners should turn the other cheek and give up their guns. It’ll make it easier to get them and their families into government re-education camps, were we can use the traditional Marxist method of dealing with political opposition – shooting them in the back of the head.”

]]> By: Inebriated Arsonist http://www.saysuncle.com/2009/10/15/wwjd/comment-page-1/#comment-230390 Inebriated Arsonist Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:16:41 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=29861#comment-230390 I'm not a particularly religious man, but here's a countering passage for the Brady Campaign (Luke 22:36-38): "Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. 37For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end. 38And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough." -Seems pretty clear to me that Christ approved of arms for self-defense. I guess I'm just not a pure enough Christian for the Brady's, though. I’m not a particularly religious man, but here’s a countering passage for the Brady Campaign (Luke 22:36-38):

“Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.

37For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.

38And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.”

-Seems pretty clear to me that Christ approved of arms for self-defense. I guess I’m just not a pure enough Christian for the Brady’s, though.

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