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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
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posted on
03/25/2012 4:46:39 PM PDT
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careyb
To: careyb
End the DNC;s war on Catholics and Hispanics.
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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.)
To: careyb
I just saw this....I’m spittin’ nails....and bad words!!!
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posted on
03/25/2012 4:50:20 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(2012..."We mutually pledge our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor")
To: careyb
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posted on
03/25/2012 4:52:13 PM PDT
by
Mechanicos
(Why does the DOE have a SWAT Team?)
To: careyb
To: goodnesswins
“I just saw this....Im 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.
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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.)
To: goodnesswins
Turn the other cheek AFTER defending your self.
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posted on
03/25/2012 4:52:57 PM PDT
by
ogen hal
(First amendment or reeducation camp?)
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.
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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.)
To: careyb
So you should just look the other way and let someone hurt you or your family?
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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)
To: careyb
When did he go from political analyst to noted theologian?
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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!)
To: careyb
I honestly had never even heard of this tool before today.
I was lucky back then, yeesh.
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posted on
03/25/2012 4:56:44 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(A Repo man is *always* intense!)
To: careyb
I’ve got two other cheeks I’d like to turn on her.
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posted on
03/25/2012 4:57:16 PM PDT
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PGR88
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.
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.
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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.)
To: heartwood
You nailed it perfectly, heartwood.
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posted on
03/25/2012 5:00:39 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(A Repo man is *always* intense!)
To: careyb
OK, Dowd turning my cheek...
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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)
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.
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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)
To: Secret Agent Man
Sense reading a King James version is in order for this Matthew.
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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.)
To: careyb
I bet if someone stuck a gun in that fool’s face he’d be singing a different tune
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.
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