Nancy Rockwell:
This weekend, in a workshop on Islam, the leader illustrated the purpose of Islam’s five-times-a-day prayer practice by talking about things that are enticing and hard to resist, and things that are habitual and hard to give up.
Sugar, she said, and told about her own attempts to give up sweet things, and how, when she succeeded for a few months, she felt free. Alcohol, drugs, anger, fear, she went on to talk about these as human habits hard to break without a constant reinforcement of strength beyond what is normal for us humans.
Not, she thought, violence. I wonder about that. Americans have a hard time even contemplating giving up guns.
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God, for whom the Temple keeps humans in prayerful connection, does not seek a servant who will keep the power to survive death as a right of survival owed to him as God’s chosen one. In fact, the Temple teaches acceptance of death
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Jesus does not, in the wilderness of his temptations, assume a discipline of prayer. He drags up, from deep within himself, responses strong enough to send the Tempter away.
This is what passes for “scholarship” in some “churches.” It’s really very said. Islam is all about cleaning up the heart, is non-violent to the point that Americans who refuse to give up their guns are the ones who she worries about.
Never mind that the Crusades had to be fought as a defensive war to free Europe from the clutches of Mohammedans who had raped, killed and pillaged the people. Never mind that Christians are – unfortunately – the most passive people on earth.
No, according to her, we should be willing to perish at the hands of whomever, whenever. But she confuses acceptance of God’s sovereign choice with man’s responsibility to act on all sorts of things, in all sorts of situations. No man should sit on his ass while people give him food to eat (2 Thess 3:10). And no man should willingly give up his life to robbers or killers when he can protect the image of God within him. Nor should he be prepared to give up the lives of others (John 15:13).
This woman obviously doesn’t understand the scriptures any more than she does Islam. And as for Christ during the temptations, he fasted, which always includes prayer, Biblically speaking, and he cited Scripture back at the tempter.
Whomever hired this impostor to “preach” should forthwith fire her and put her to work washing dishes, or something she can actually do. But they probably won’t, and thus does America continue to languish at the hands of false teachers.
Take note. When is the last time you ever saw a plea for city or county sovereignty from the state redound to less stringent gun laws? That’s right. You never have. That’s why it’s important to embed preemption into the law. If I’m not mistaken, the city of Jackson is still in a battle with the state over it’s regulation against concealed carry inside the city limits, mainly because the city’s council members are communists and would rather force their rule on the citizens of Jackson than actually solve problems.
Next, I didn’t know that guns are currently prohibited in church in Wyoming. That’s deplorable, and it sets up church parishioners as sitting ducks should a ne’er-do-well take it upon himself to kill the members during a worship service. I agree with Bruce Burns. The right to self defense admits of no regulation. It is a basic, inalienable and God-given right.
As for whether the governor will sign this into law, that’s an open question and it isn’t clear that he is a gun rights supporter.
Well, you have to give the Wyoming senate credit for clarity. They understand that if they enact a nullification law, they’d better be ready to arrest federal marshals and other federal agents (e.g., ATF) who attempt to enforce those laws.
As for the question how you ask a jury to ignore a federal law, you don’t play that game. You don’t ever let the accused be arrested to begin with, and forbid a federal judge from taking the case up in the first place. If he does, he presides over an empty court, and if he sends agents of the court to arrest the “suspects,” those agents are arrested by local LEOs as soon as they leave the court room. As for those local LEOs who won’t do that, they lose their jobs immediately. This is actually much simpler than it’s made out to be.
Here is my prediction. Governor Mead prostitutes his signature as a veto of the bill. We’ll see if I’m right. It’s easy to say that you support gun rights. Most statements of support include a “but.” I support gun rights … “but.” There’s always a but. And a butt.