Christianity promotes gun culture that allows ‘epidemic of mass shootings,’ claims New York Times essay

FoxNews ^ | 06/23/2022 | Gabriel Hays

[redgolum]

They are in a panic.

That makes them very dangerous.

I will never forget in 2016 while listening to Catholic radio, a host was PLEADING with people to vote for Hillary. Why? He said “We survived Hitler. We survived Stalin. We won’t survive if we stop the left from getting into power. For the survival of the Catholic faith you MUST VOTE DEMOCRAT!”

I thought it was nuts. But that guy has been proven correct. The left was content to have Christians on a reservation, but after Trump they are no longer going to allow that.

Things are going to get spicy. But I no longer think that there is an off ramp.

[MrRelevant]

But allowing violent criminals to walk the streets again and again and again after being locked up.....promotes peace and civility

[dragonblustar]

And communism supports mass slaughter of innocence.

[ALPAPilot]

They believe the stories told about guns’ power, their necessity, their righteousness.

What special power gives liberals the ability to know what others are thinking? If that is the basis of the argument instead of what people say or do then just don't even bother writing. That's one of the annoying things about the 1619 project and all things racist: the claim that they KNOW what others are thinking.

[A Navy Vet]

"But many of our fellow citizens don’t just own guns, they believe in them. They believe the stories told about guns’ power, their necessity, their righteousness."

Pure gobbkedygook. Just another so-called intellectual trying to make sense out of his biased mental masturbation process. HEY, LOOK AT ME. I GOTS A NEW THESIS.

[Bob434]

Ah, so now it’s Christians who caused it all. The left are showing their contempt for,God more and more these days.

[Titus-Maximus]

Why don’t they even mention the mass shootings by Muslims? The Paris shooting at the Bataclan theater killing 100 people...

[Roman_War_Criminal]

That’s exactly right! They are purposefully targeting Christians and lying about us being violent.

Yet they will not dare attack any other religion or group.

It really shows who leads them (Satan) and that Jesus really is who He says He is (the Way, the Truth, the Life).

The real end game is the destruction of Christianity and Christians.

[olezip]

A New York Times guest essay argued that American gun culture has been made all the more fanatical because of its ties to Christianity. It also claimed that Christianity makes mass shootings more possible.

Communists and Democrats always blame the innocent for their evil ways.

[bert]

The New York Times and publisher are American enemies and must be treaed as such

[hoagy62]

The difference between Allah and our Lord and Savior Yeshua is that they hate Yeshua with a purple passion. Allah,who could also be named as who he really is, Satan, they like him.

[fuente]

We are the enemy to the left. Imagine if such slanderous allegations were made towards Jews or Muslims. Who do you think that they intend to disarm with Red Flag laws.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

C. S. Lewis made a comment to the effect that when He made those statements do you think that for one minute He meant that people should just stand there while their neighbor was being assaulted by a madman.

[arthurus]

It's about the ability of a person to defend himself against threats, violence, and home invasions. "A person" is singular, not plural and it is political correctness only that claims that the masculine pronoun cannot refer to females. "He" and "him" are the generic to stand for a person of unspecified sex. It is far better when we use English grammatically than if we give the language over to the Left. When the Left controls how we speak we lose gradually and sometimes rapidly the ability to think. Language is the tool kit of thought. When the tools are rusted and bent then we lose the ability to think straight.

[IndispensableDestiny]

Book of Armaments, Chapter 2, Verses 9-21

[No name given]

The real reason lefties hate Christianity is because it condemns their degenerate, unholy, God-hating, anything goes lifestyle.

[nickcarraway]

Lol.

[dirtymac]

Aw yes!

Would that be in Colt 3:17 and Jesus pulled his Colt 44 and, fanning the hammer, shot the trespasser for stealing water from the well.

Or maybe in Remington 15:21 And God bestowed on Jesus a Remington, lever action, 30-30 saddle rifle, which Jesus was to use in rounding up Pharisees and Sadducees and returning them to the temple mount.

You must always be wary of Christians especially when sitting in church as we have seem on numerous occasions of church shootings.

{Major, Major Sarc tag}

[super7man]

I think these guys are setting up the same scenario that iis at the end of the book of Esther.

[MarvinStinson]

Peter Manseau is the founding director of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Center for the Understanding of Religion in American History.