Jesus Would Favor The Second Amendment?

[napkinz]

August 8, 2013
by Mario Piperni


It just gets crazier and crazier and never more so as when a passion for guns and religion finds a home in the same sick mind.

Gordon Klingenschmitt is a former Navy chaplain and here’s what he had to say to his conservative internet audience.

“I think Jesus would favor the Second Amendment. This is my opinion, that the Holy Spirit would allow the citizens to protect themselves rather than delegating that to a government to go out arm themselves against the citizens in the name of protecting the citizens. ... If you don’t have a gun, I’m telling you as a Christian chaplain, sell your clothes and buy a gun. It’s time. The government persecution will be coming against you and you need to arm yourselves and defend your family when that time comes.”

Question: If you sold your clothes to purchase a gun, how would you carry a concealed weapon?

Question 2: How insane does a person need to be to believe ...

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[hlthe2b]

1. Obscene n/t

[COLGATE4]

2. Klingenshmitt just proves the old saying

that the shit doesn't fall very far from the bat.

[nyquil_man]

6. The schmitt doesn't fall far from the klingen. nt

[COLGATE4]

13. Another fundamental basic truism. nt

[hrmjustin]

3. Horrible! Jesus was a man of peace.

[napkinz]

9. The NRA's take on it is ...

Jesus was a man of "piece" (or with a "piece" if he were here today).

[hrmjustin]

11. I am reminded when they came to arrest Jesus, Peter cut off the ear of the slave of the high priest.

Jesus said put your swords away. He who lives by the sword dies by the sword. Jesus restored the man's ear.

[msanthrope]

4. You would think that with the ability to smite, the christian gods would not

need additional weaponry.

Personally, given his actions against the moneychangers at the Temple, and the fact that he fucked up an olive tree just because it had no fruit for him, I would definitely support a 5-day-deity-waiting period for Jesus.

Maybe he can borrow some lightening bolts from Zeus?

[Orrex]

22. I find that offensive

Thor is the go-to god for lightning bolts.

However, Zeus is the god of choice for golden showers.


Mysterious ways.

[msanthrope]

25. Thor has a hammer....given the circumstances of his death,

ought not JC to avoid such weapon-wielding others?

[nyquil_man]

5. Is this the Jesus who was executed by the government and did nothing to defend himself? nt

[freshwest]

7. Interesting point there.

[hrmjustin]

8. Good point!

[napkinz]

10. spot on!

nt

[Skidmore]

23. This is the same Jesus who said

"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars" and did not call for armed insurrection. This is why he was betrayed by a Zealot.

[nyquil_man]

24. Ah, primaried by the Tea Party.

Not conservative enough.

[MFrohike]

33. Oh damn

Brilliant.

[PoliticAverse]

12. From my reading of the bible it seems Jesus was more obsessed with swords. n/t

[PowerToThePeople]

14. LoL. This is bad.... (NSFW)

[NuclearDem]

15. I seem to remember Jesus saying something exactly the opposite

Something about those who live by the sword...

Also something about the appropriate response to getting slapped on the cheek

[napkinz]

16. Republican Jesus ...

[99Forever]

17. Guns ARE a religion.

In case you hadn't noticed.

They are also a fetish.

And a sign of cowardice and mental illness.

[Populist_Prole]

30. Sure seems that way

I enjoy recreational shooting but my long time friends have gone full tilt right wing over the gun issue the past half-dozen years. It's all they ever talk about. I can hardly stand to be around them anymore.

[Paladin]

18. That is some seriously sick shit. (nt)

[Taitertots]

19. The "Jesus would do X" argument is inherently dishonest

With the limited exception for things that (according to holy texts) were done or said by Jesus.

[KinMd]

20. Can you imagine those at a pro-gun rally naked?

[pintobean]

21. You can have my concealed gun

when you pry it from my cold dead rectum.

[Trillo]

26. This belongs in the religion forum. NT

[napkinz]

27. this is more about guns and the crazy thinking of the far right

There are several issues here; it's not just about religion. We're talking politics, guns, AND religion.

[Recursion]

28. It's Luke 22:36

31 “Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”

33 But he replied, “Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.”

34 Jesus answered, “I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me.”

35 Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?”

“Nothing,” they answered.

36 He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. 37 It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.”

38 The disciples said, “See, Lord, here are two swords.”

“That’s enough!” he replied.

I'd add that Biblical scholars have many, many theories about the meaning of this passage, few of which involve suggesting people actually buy physical weapons.

[LostOne4Ever]

29. All that stuff about turning the other cheek?

OBVIOUSLY Yeshua didn't mean any of it....because the GoP and the NRA told me so.

[meow2u3]

31. WWJS?

Who Would Jesus Shoot?

[KamaAina]

32. Well, He did turn a pistol into an AR-15

[reformist2]

34. The American evangelical version of Christianity is practically unrecognizable from the original.

[napkinz]

35. perhaps we need a CLIFFS NOTES edition of the Far-Right's version of the Bible

nt

[napkinz]

36. died for the right ...

[rustydog]

37. What part of Thou Shalt not kill

do these circle-jerking, small penis syndrome morons not understand.

They actually are saying Jesus "effing Christ himself would support the 2nd Amendment!!!
The right to have a weapon in your home designed solely to kill.
Dumb fucking goobers.

[markiv]

38. would Jesus drive an Impalla, or a Crown Vic?

they used to ask 'what would Jesus drive'? and i figured it had to be one of the two

any thoughts on which?

[hughee99]

40. I think he'd drive a TESLA.

Maybe this one.


His bumper sticker would read "Jesus HAS the wheel!"

[hughee99]

39. He THINKS Jesus would favor the second Amendment, but being a "christian chaplain" he KNOWS

that they frown on nudity. Why would you do something you KNOW your religion opposes in support of something you THINK your spiritual inspiration might support?

Besides, I don't know exactly what a gun sells for, but I'm sure it's more than the value of the "used clothing" on my back and I'm sure someone will call the cops on me while I'm walking home from purchasing one, naked and armed.