[Cronos]

America is an anomaly among the nations, and insomuch as the power of the evangelical gospel that worked to bring souls to be controlled from within then they needed not be controlled from without, and the opposite is increasingly the case today.

Nope, you could say the same about various nations in India which had the same pentecostal concept of "souls from within" -- like other aspects of hinduism

[daniel1212]

Though as are a foreigner and a Catholic you may disagree, yet regardless of imitations, it is entirely Biblical to be controlled from within, to be God controlled (so that they need not be gun controlled) by the Spirit of God and conscience in accordance with faith in the assured Word of God, for “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. “ (Romans 8:14) “Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: “ (1 Timothy 1:19)

“Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the Word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or the bayonet. (Robert Winthrop (May 12, 1809 – November 16, 1894), and Speaker of the House from 1838 to 1840, and later president of the Massachusetts Bible Society)

[muawiyah]

The ancient Jewish concept is that a man must control himself ~ religion helps.