Take up the sword? Or gun? Who do you recommend we shoot?
If violent persecution comes...well, did the first century Christians go to Masada and resist with violence? Did they kill government officials at night?
If a bunch of people showed up at my door demanding sex with my daughter, I’d shoot. Hetero or homo, I’d shoot. But this will start slow. If the Supreme Court makes homosexual marriage a “right”, then religious schools will be under pressure. Then churches will be told they will lose their tax exempt status (and I am sure the one I’m a member of would much rather give up tax-exempt than give up the Word of God).
We’re already seeing businessmen being fined for not supporting gay marriage. We need to fight to change those laws, but I don’t advocate shooting the city council...
We need to understand that America is not, in any way, a Christian nation any longer. Not even close. I don’t care what stupid surveys show - if 50% of Americans believed in God, our country would be a very different place! We are as much in a heathen society as the Corinthians...and I guess I missed the part where the Corinthians were told to rise up and slay their oppressors!
I doubt Christians - who at a minimum must believe that God has the right to tell them how to live - are more than 5-10% of the American population. We are seeing homosexuals attacking the church because we no longer outnumber them by a large enough margin to intimidate them from attacking. But a call to violence isn’t the answer.
While I make a distinction in post #1 between soft persecution and hard persecution (Krysallnacht, Iraq, Syria), I do no equivocate on meeting force with force when persecution turns the corner from soft persecution to hard persecution.
If I’m approved by God to fight and kill Iraqis in a Just War, then Just War applies to terror caused by my own ‘fellow’ citizens if this turns to hard persecution.
Othewise, how could the colonists have fought the British? After all, they were ‘countrymen’ one of the other.
The prayer on caesar’s lips is that Christians will do something incredibly stupid and provide an excuse. Lord I hope that people are not so demon possessed as to consider such insanity.