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Matthew Dowd: Christians Should 'Turn The Other Cheek' And Not Use Guns To Defend Themselves
The Hope For America ^ | 3/25/12 | Matthew Dowd

Posted on 03/25/2012 4:46:34 PM PDT by careyb

Video here.

Appearing on This Week With Christanne Amanpour George Stephanopoulos, noted theologian Matthew Dowd decried the "irony" that certain legislators and governors who "push for" gun rights also "push for" prayer in school.

It actually gets better.

Thus spake Dowd: "We wanna be a Christian nation and we wanna act in a Christian manner but, oh by the way, we don't believe in the 'Turn your other cheek' and we don't believe in 'Love your enemy', we believe in loading citizens and basically giving them an opportunity to shoot people."

Apologies for his tortured use of the English language and misquotation of Scripture, but that is an exact quotation.

In other words, in the mind of Matthew Dowd, it is a Christian virtue to be the victim of a violent crime without defending yourself.

For real.

In his defense, he was speaking on a Sunday morning, so maybe he thought he was qualified to teach something about Biblical principles.

Sound doctrine, brother.

Everyone knows that God gave His only begotten Son so that all who trust Him should stand idly by while being raped, assaulted, or beaten.

God love ya, Deacon Dowd.

Can I get a witness?


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: dowd; matthewdowd; selfdefense; trayvon; zimmerman
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1 posted on 03/25/2012 4:46:39 PM PDT by careyb
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To: careyb

End the DNC;s war on Catholics and Hispanics.


2 posted on 03/25/2012 4:48:44 PM PDT by NoLibZone (When will Obama call Trayvon's mom? He was quick to call Sandra Fluke.)
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To: careyb

I just saw this....I’m spittin’ nails....and bad words!!!


3 posted on 03/25/2012 4:50:20 PM PDT by goodnesswins (2012..."We mutually pledge our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor")
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To: careyb

The Bible and self defense:

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25442


4 posted on 03/25/2012 4:52:13 PM PDT by Mechanicos (Why does the DOE have a SWAT Team?)
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To: careyb

turn this dipsh!t.


5 posted on 03/25/2012 4:52:30 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (obamacare is an oxymoron.)
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To: goodnesswins

“I just saw this....I’m spittin’ nails....and bad words!!!”

Yep. I’m sitting here with a cold and coughing like hell I nearly choked. I was wishing the SOB was sitting here in front of me so I could cough at him violently and tell him to duck my sick.


6 posted on 03/25/2012 4:52:40 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Newt Gingrich was part of the Reagan Revolution's Murderers' Row." - Jeffrey Lord, Reagan Admin.)
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To: goodnesswins

Turn the other cheek AFTER defending your self.


7 posted on 03/25/2012 4:52:57 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: careyb
Matthew Dowd decried the "irony" that certain legislators and governors who "push for" gun rights also "push for" prayer in school.

Wonder if Matthew ever prays he never need a weapon to defend himself. What if they (who want to do you or your family harm) get all of your bodyguards Matthew?

But of course the average law-abiding citizens can only depend on themselves.

8 posted on 03/25/2012 4:54:00 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: careyb

So you should just look the other way and let someone hurt you or your family?


9 posted on 03/25/2012 4:54:41 PM PDT by just me (Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. (John Adams)
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To: careyb

When did he go from political analyst to noted theologian?


10 posted on 03/25/2012 4:54:56 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: careyb

I honestly had never even heard of this tool before today.

I was lucky back then, yeesh.


11 posted on 03/25/2012 4:56:44 PM PDT by DemforBush (A Repo man is *always* intense!)
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To: careyb

I’ve got two other cheeks I’d like to turn on her.


12 posted on 03/25/2012 4:57:16 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: careyb

Such a silly man. Jesus did not say, if they kill your father, find them your mother also. If they rape your wife, give them your daughter also.

He was talking about petty humiliations and bearing them peacefully. It’s very very few Christians who are completely committed to non-violence.


13 posted on 03/25/2012 4:58:09 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: careyb

Our founding fathers were - vast majority - better and more learned Christians than most Americans today, and they had no problem with the concept of self defense. They even finished a revolution and wrote the 2nd Amendment.

Being Christian doesn’t mean being a victim to everyone who have no respect for you as a living person. We have no obligation to passively let others murder us. We have every right to protect our God-given lives from those who would rob us of them over mere material goods.


14 posted on 03/25/2012 4:59:31 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: heartwood

You nailed it perfectly, heartwood.


15 posted on 03/25/2012 5:00:39 PM PDT by DemforBush (A Repo man is *always* intense!)
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To: careyb
OK, Dowd turning my cheek...

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16 posted on 03/25/2012 5:01:18 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: careyb

I’m quite confident that God will forgive me for blowing away the MF who tries to harm me or my family. I’ll pull the trigger with a clear conscience on that one every time.


17 posted on 03/25/2012 5:02:42 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Sense reading a King James version is in order for this Matthew.


18 posted on 03/25/2012 5:02:59 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: careyb

I bet if someone stuck a gun in that fool’s face he’d be singing a different tune


19 posted on 03/25/2012 5:04:10 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: careyb
Back about 1967 the university I attended invited William Stringfellow who was the current big new thing in liberal theology. You can Google Stringfellow and see how much destruction he helped visit on Protestantism. But I mostly remember this fruitcake go on about the sinfulness of self defense and how as white folks we collectively deserve any violence that might come our way because we are privileged due to the historical crimes white people have committed throughout history and in Viet Nam were continuing to perpetrate against the ‘poor’ and the ‘colored peoples of the world’. As such we white folks should view violence as an opportunity for an act of ‘redemptive sacrifice’ to expiate a small small part if our historic guilt. I suspect this ass Dodd is cut from the same bolt if rotten cloth as Stringfellow.
20 posted on 03/25/2012 5:06:16 PM PDT by robowombat
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