Posted on 06/18/2022 8:38:09 AM PDT by American Number 181269513
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) last week at a Christian conference joked that Jesus didn’t have enough AR-15 rifles to “keep his government from killing him.”
“On Twitter, a lot of the little Twitter trolls, they like to say, ‘Oh, Jesus didn’t need an AR-15, how many AR-15s do you think Jesus would’ve had?” Boebert said.
She continued: “Well, he didn’t have enough to keep his government from killing him.”
The Christian New Testament teaches that Jesus willingly died on a cross to take the penalty for the sins of those who follow him and that he dissuaded his followers from using violence to try to save him, including one instance in which Jesus rebuked a disciple for cutting off the ear of a soldier who arrested him.
Boebert delivered her speech at the 2022 Family Camp Meeting’s “All Things Are Possible” conference in Colorado Springs.
She discussed the importance of speaking up for conservative beliefs in an attempt to embolden attendees against “cancel culture.”
“Now, cancel culture is something that’s been pretty, kind of a big deal lately,” said Boebert. “However, cancel culture is nothing new. Cancel culture has been here since the very beginning.”
Boebert used the biblical story of Cain, who killed his brother Abel, to demonstrate her point.
“Cain canceled Abel,” she said. “And guess what, it wasn’t with a big, scary AR-15, it was with a rock, so I don’t think it’s a firearm issue. I think it’s a heart, a sin issue.”
Responses to the speech, which was streamed live, varied, with some applauding Boebert’s courage and some criticizing her use of biblical passages to support her political views.
“Amen!!! We need more Spirit filled people in the governments and more of us Spirit filled Believers standing up for Righteousness!!!” said one viewer.
“1:03:07 is a point of absolute blasphemy,” said another, referencing Boebert’s comment about Jesus being killed. “Our Lord is our Saviour because He CHOSE to give His life as a ransom for us all, not because he didn’t have any AR-15s. SMH.”
An AR-15 is the gun used in the recent shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 elementary school students and two teachers dead after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos showered a classroom with bullets from a gun he acquired on his 18th birthday.
Some Republican lawmakers are supporting a Senate plan that aims to bolster mental health resources and strengthen background checks on prospective gun buyers under the age of 21 in response to shootings in Uvalde and elsewhere.
See my tagline
“In America, everyone is a religious expert.”
You have a constitutional right to believe any religious nonsense that strikes your fancy (or that you make up as you go).
It shows.
Some people here have that same problem.
She forgot to mention the Apostles were a bunch Dems without the Cajones to put up a fight to protect Jesus.
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That’s not a sense of humor. That is - at best - a very ill-advised statement.
There are things we talk about that are supposed to be sacred that we don’t “joke” about - certainly not in this manner.
That wasn't what He was there for. Just the opposite.
You are ettitled to,your opinion. I don’t share your opinion in this particular matter. I think it,is understood that she knows perfectly well Jesus didn’t need guns, and simp,y made a joke. Had she suggested thstnhe couldn’t have saved himself unless he had guns, then that is mockery of God and his power.
Well, I believe reverence is an important thing on certain matters and they are not to be trivialized - nor politicized - by making these kinds of remarks.
A bigger lesson here is that the Rule of Law was followed. The crucifixion was not a lynching.
What is supposedly one of humanity’s honest creations. Some even call the rule of law “sacred.”
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