Posted on 04/19/2007 7:35:09 AM PDT by bmwcyle
Left-wing religious officials raced to exploit the Virginia Tech murders by resuscitating their favorite slogans about gun control.
Winning the tackiness contest, National Council of Churches chief Bob Edgar issued a news release within hours of the shootings.
“How many more will have to die before we say enough is enough?” Edgar asked. “How many more senseless deaths will have to be counted before we enact meaningful firearms control in this country? How many more of our pastors, rabbis and imams will have to preside over caskets of innocent victims of gun violence because a nation refused to stop the proliferation of these small weapons of mass destruction?”
Revealingly, Edgar’s quick statement barely mentioned “God,” made no mention of Christ, and quoted no Scripture. Although ostensibly the head of the nation’s chief ecumenical organization for Christian churches, Edgar evidently thought neither the Redeemer nor Holy Writ were all that pertinent in the wake of over two dozen murdered young people. Far more urgent was a renewed push for gun control legislation.
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No surprise - - according to the liberals Jesus was a big government socialist.
How many more of our pastors, rabbis and imams will have to preside over caskets of innocent victims of gun abortion violence because a nation refused to stop the proliferation of these small weapons of mass destruction abortion?”
Where’s the ACLU crying about “Separation of Church & State”?
“One of the major obstacles to effective global regulation of small arms and light weapons is the pro-gun position adopted by the U.S. administration during years of international negotiations,” Kobia quickly asserted, connecting the Virginia Tech murders to the global depredations of the United States. “The news from Virginia today is little different than the news from Darfur yesterday and the news from Iraq tomorrow,” he asserted. After all, Blacksburg, Virginia, like Darfur and Iraq, has “wanton killings, the indiscriminate use of armed force and the widespread availability of deadly weapons.”
This cr@p offends me. Looking at all the mayhem around the world, the militants, terrorists and psychos are all toting KALASHNIKOVS. I’m not aware of a SINGLE ONE of them being manufactured in the United States.
Could someone please show me the press releases from this organization in the ‘60s, ‘70’s, ‘80s or 90s when the Commies were dumping MILLIONS of them into the 3rd world?
Good read, thanks.
social mores that prevent murder are only effectively instilled by religion, which the Religious Left has neglected in favor of political "salvation."
I know Mark. He is a great person.
Cho’s ramblings are the same ramblings that you can find in the mind of any socialist/communist. Hatred for those who are successful, wealthy and the children of that wealth. Is Virgina Tech run by Conservatives? No, it’s run by socialists and they are singularly responsible for planting the seeds of discontent in this mans mind. That he went on a rampage and slaughtered so many, is the logical extension of their words.
God wants a society where guns are not necessary, and indeed He moved the profit Isaiah to write of a time when swords would be turned into agricultural tools (Is. 2:4), a passage that is the theme of a bronze statue in front of the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
However, until evil is restrained and humanity is changed to have a new heart and a new spirit (Ezekiel 11:19), then people must be able to protect themselves. Indeed, they have the obligation to their loved ones to do so.
Another nitwit. Bob Edgar, one of the 2/3 brain dead we have to put up with. Love these nitwits that have no real solution. It's the criminals, not the gun. Read my lips, there is no perfect gun control in a free country. Never was and never will be. Things slip through the cracks, and that, my friends, is the absolute definition of a free society. Having said that, maybe the real problem can be worked on, that is discovering the mentally ill and real treatment or lock them up. Harsh, isn't it.
It was a well-written article. Thanks for posting it. We need more clergy like Mark to stand up and get us all centered back on Scripture and not the “Church of What’s Happenin’ Now.”
Good point but I think Isaiah was giving us the time line of the second coming. It will be the presents of Jesus that man will stop the killing.
I agree with this. We need to institute "sensible gun control" by removing the useless laws that only obstruct law abiding citizens from defending themselves,and while providing criminals with unarmed victims.
It's the word "sensible" which screwed him.
They can start with making it illegal for non-US citizens from owning a gun.
As I wrote this morning in a comment to a well known television commentator:
We praise the holocaust survivor who gave his life to buy his students a few moments to effect escape, yet we don’t stop to realize how the holocaust came about: by “reasonable” and incremental gun control that resulted in a civilian population that was totally unable to resist being sent to the ovens.
Gun Free Zones Kill!
AMEN
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