Posted on 08/22/2014 3:56:34 PM PDT by right-wing agnostic
“Children are being beheaded, mothers are being raped and killed, and fathers are being hung and crucified. Entire Christian and non-Muslim communities are being decimated by the radical Muslim group, ISIS.” These are the words from reporters out of Iraq. What is our obligation to those under fire from Islamic terrorists? Prayer is good, but not enough. Words of support are welcome, but not enough. What can one do when terrorists are not moved by our prayers or words of support for the hunted? Our religious obligation is to fight.
We fight because self-defense is a mandate from the Bible -- the Torah, called by many the Old Testament. We fight to defend life. Because life is precious, the ultimate, we must defend it. The very definition of self-defense is permission to kill the one who is coming toward you to kill you. Self-defense is not simply our right to pray or support with words, but do whatever is needed to stay alive and protect our families.
Those pacifists who are willing to personally die and would rather be butchered so as not to kill their butchers are free to so choose. But no one is allowed to demand or suggest that someone else allow himself to be killed so as to spare the life of the one presently doing murder.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I agree,especially with the foolish notion of turning the other cheek.
Thus, self-defense is made less important than defense of others (any who cannot defend themselves)!
Neither the spirit or the letter of the Bible compels one to be somebody’s door mat, endure abuse, fail to take precautions in the face of danger, or defend yourself when threatened.
that is, FAIL to defend yourself when threatened.
Yes, it was a good article.
There was one particular quote which was very scary and very revealing.
“We should not want a victor and a vanquished.”- Obama on the subject of bombing ISIS.
Another article that I included in my Preparedness Manual:
The Biblical Case for Self-Defense
http://learntheology.com/biblical-case-for-self-defense.html
Just look at Ferguson there are plenty of people just looking for the slightest excuse to start trouble so it doesn’t take much, look what happen when the EBT Cards stopped working not long ago. Think about what happens after severe thunderstorms, winter snow storms, hurricanes roll though. Heck look at what happens on Black Friday and that just for stuff you can live without not like food and water.
Here’s a good tale that shows it can happen anywhere and with little provocation:
http://sgtreport.com/2012/06/an-event-at-my-grocery-store/
It is your choice you can prep or you can stand around on a bridge waiting for FEMA to bring you a bottle of water, a MRE, a warm blanket and a kiss for your boo-boo and maybe you can even get your picture as you stand there on the national news.
The world is dry tinder just awaiting the right spark.
So listen to what the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. NIV Proverbs 22:3
Selco covers this in this article many times people just can not except that a breakdown is occurring even as they watch it happening before their eyes. Why don’t they realize it? It’s caused by a condition called ‘Normalcy Bias’ a mental state people enter when facing a disaster.
It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation.
A good article on ‘Normalcy Bias’ is on our own ChocChipCookies Blog The Survival Mom:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/12/29/normalcy-bias/
You either prepare and stand on your own beholden to no one or you become dependent on others to provide your basic needs and become their ‘serf’. Me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be shut up in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.
Just getting started or an old hand you might find my Preparedness Manual helpful. You can download the manual at:
http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf NOTE! THIS IS A FREE DOWNLOAD. I DO NOT MAKE ONE CENT OFF MY PREPAREDNESS MANUAL!
For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, cash (I myself have been putting up change for the past few years both for the metal content and the fact that using change places to make what purchases you can will move you down the the list of possible marks during shtf), tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Again I like to recomend FReeper’s ChocoChipCookie Blog The Survival Mom (Please Blog Police let this one slide!) Where you can get lots of useful information like:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2011/11/20/8-morale-boosters-for-any-worst-case-scenario/
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/02/survival-priorities-the-rule-of-three/
And More
Also there is Ferfal’s Blog a survivor of Argentina’s first collapse:
And there is Selco’s Blog a Bosnian War survivor at:
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger. Underestimation can be fatal.”
> I agree,especially with the foolish notion of turning the other cheek.
That cheek might get sliced off in this scenario though. Jesus also said to sell your cloak to buy a sword and in Lukee 22:36
> I agree,especially with the foolish notion of turning the other cheek.
That cheek might get sliced off in this scenario though. Jesus also said to sell your cloak to buy a sword in Luke 22:36
The Jews fought almost continuously for hundreds of years to secure the “Promised Land” They are still at it in case no one has noticed.
Turn the other cheek misses the message entirely. Romans frequently cuffed slaves with an open palm. As almost all are right handed a right to the left cheek is a message to a slave. By turning the other cheek and offering it you are forcing him to deal with you as an equal without violence.
Jesus told us to turn the other cheek. He did NOT say to stand there and be slapped silly. We in the Western world have been slapped silly for way too long. Fight back, die or live in chains.
I agree with you on this.
The turning the other cheek has more to do with personal insults, than actual physical attack.
Interesting thread, ping
My ‘elephant in the room’ comment will probably nget ignored yet again.
It’s kinda hard to walk straight when this whirlwind is so strong...
That is exactly the thought that hit me as well. Political correctness is the reason this administration is giving the muslimes a pass, other than the person on top and Val Jarrett being affectionate to that religion.
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