fiatlux

The article that will follow after my comments is from a site suggested by my uncle almost six months ago but visited for the first time today. It is called patheos.com. Very interesting stuff.

There are at least ten times the adulterers in America than homosexual affairs but gay marriage between two people who love and are committed to each other tops the chart for Christian attention. Curious. They also fail to mention the enormous need to care for "the least of these" in their obsession with homosexuality, when no moment, according to scripture, can be spared in attending to this endeavor. Very sad. And it gets worse.

The NRA is far, far worse than Planned Parenthood for this country and the soul. It seems so many Christians find carrying arms more important than open arms. The American Church is the real source and threat to the heart of this great country, caring more about judgment and complaint than love and hope (which is aa actual sign in Revelation about the End Times). Any moral decay you may be witnessing leads right back to Christianity as practiced here among the safe and elite, not acting like the free and the brave.

Here is a cut and paste of the article entitled "Ammosexuals":

The Ammosexual agenda is to ensure people can own any type of weapon they want, take their weapons wherever they want, and to oppose any regulations or gun restrictions designed to reduce violence. It is an agenda that wants nothing less than unrestricted gun rights, consequences be dammed.

Rid all discussions on gun violence of basic facts.

The only way the movement can succeed is if Ammosexuals completely rid all facts from public discourse. They don’t want you to know how statistically dangerous it is to have a firearm in the home, don’t want you to know how successful gun control has been at curbing gun violence, and they’ll certainly want to distract you from the fact we’re basically the only place in the world where mass shootings happen every single day. Facts are the enemy of their agenda.

Distract people from the real agenda with false equivalency arguments.

Part of the Ammosexual agenda is to make guns look totally harmless– they literally want to deceive you. To accomplish this they’ll commit the fallacy of false equivalency and say things like “guns don’t kill people any more than forks make you fat” so all their friends can “like” the comment in an online round of high-fives. But here’s the fact they refuse to acknowledge: guns are different than forks, cars and hammers because when you use a gun properly and for the intended purpose, a gun always kills.
Immediately accuse gun control advocates of being liberals who just want to confiscate every gun in America.

One of the first moves in any discussion with an Ammosexual will be a claim that liberals are always trying to take all their guns away. They’ll skip discussions about universal background checks, waiting periods, trigger locks and a host of other options, and will instead paint you as some liberal who literally wants to go door to door forcibly taking away guns. Funny thing is, liberals have had plenty of seasons of political power, yet they’ve never done this. The discussion isn’t about abolition- it’s about regulation.

Convince the masses that unrestricted rights for Ammosexuals were somehow “God-given.”

If something is bestowed by God and not government, it makes it sound much more noble and difficult to change. The Ammosexuals have done this with unrestricted gun rights and have created a new religion falsely named after Christianity– one where Jesus affirms his followers shooting up their enemies, instead of the Jesus of the Bible who commanded his followers to nonviolently love their enemies and reject violence.

And, perhaps the most concerning tactic of the Ammosexual agenda: The Ammosexual agenda continually promises they will ultimately use violence to get their own way.

I don’t ever remember an LGBTQ friend promise to start shooting up the country and overthrow the government if they didn’t get marriage equality, but the Ammosexuals continually promise they will do exactly that if anyone tries to interfere with their “rights.” Sometimes they’ll be obvious about it, quoting phrases about the rights of the people to abolish the government, and sometimes they’ll clothe their threats of violence in capitalized phrases such as, “NO ONE WILL EVER TAKE MY GUNS!” and “just TRY it and see what happens buddy!”

Either way, let us be clear: Ammosexuals are willing to kill a lot of people if it comes down to it.

fiatlux

What American Christians seem to have forsaken is the power of love. They are trusting more and more in a secular government, and a particular secular political party, to change hearts and do God's work. The love that Jesus commanded is, it seems, just not strong enough or the right "weapon" in this fight. Let me remind you: God is love. The character, power, justice, and righteousness of God is love, his essential nature. You do not want to trust in that, the father's basic nature, for miracles and transformations?

I have had a number of occasions of witnessing a welcoming embrace to a lost soul produce immediate and long-lasting godly changes in people. It appeared as if all they had been waiting for is just one person to embrace them just as they were. No conditions. No words of warning or advice. No scripture. Just an open and genuine hug of acceptance.