I’ll be really brazen. What is holding the vast majority of Americans from taking physical action? Protestantism. And I consider myself a Protestant, although a poor one at that. Protestants have to have someone tell them it’s ok to take the necessary physical kill or be killed action, otherwise they’re not really Christians.
That’s one thing I have to give to Catholics. They have a leader who can say enough is enough. Protestants don’t, unless you consider the secular government the leader of the Protestants, which it really is, or was.
Christians in general have made self-defense into a Gordian Knot that they can’t unravel let alone cut.
We need to love each other like Jesus, after all he ate and drank w sinners. So he did. But he also made it clear that he had enemies and would deal w them and did deal w them in the terms of his limited engagement. When he comes back he won’t be so nice. Has his nature changed? No, only his task. Protestants have become one side of a coin, which is blind to their God given ability to defend themselves. They’ve become unable to defend themselves and I don’t think that’s biblical. We’re being pushed into a holocaust corner and most Protestants are going to end up the same way as WWII Jews. We used to be fighters, as most Catholics know, but we’ve been dumbed down by those who don’t know history very well, but are really sure of their opinion of the Bible. s/ Flame away.
From this Catholic, we, as Christians need to hold our respective principles and beliefs but to lay aside our differences in the current crisis to fight our common enemies in the name of our Lord. Your Savior and mine wept at Gethsemane over His knowledge that His flock would not be as one but they would all still be His flock. May we have each others’ backs and may God bless you and yours.
From this Catholic, we, as Christians need to hold our respective principles and beliefs but to lay aside our differences in the current crisis to fight our common enemies in the name of our Lord. Your Savior and mine wept at Gethsemane over His knowledge that His flock would not be as one but they would all still be His flock. May we have each others’ backs and may God bless you and yours.
God has killed a boatload of people or approved of same.