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yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts) Wed Aug 1, 2018, 12:44 PM Aug 2018

Why some Christians don't believe in gun control: They think God handed down the Second Amendment

You could be a mainline Protestant Democratic woman or a highly educated politically liberal man — the more you line up with Christian nationalism, the less likely you are to support gun control.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/07/25/why-some-christians-dont-believe-in-gun-control-they-think-god-handed-down-the-second-amendment/?utm_term=.3d6f7ca8a67f

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Why some Christians don't believe in gun control: They think God handed down the Second Amendment (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Aug 2018 OP

Amendments and Commandments are not equivalents MANative Aug 2018 #1

Of course they believe it came from God, it's the 6th Commandment marylandblue Aug 2018 #2

To the evangelical defacto7 Aug 2018 #3

MANative

(4,112 posts)

1. Amendments and Commandments are not equivalents

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2018, 12:51 PM

Aug 2018

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)

2. Of course they believe it came from God, it's the 6th Commandment

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2018, 12:55 PM

Aug 2018

"Thou shall blow the assholes away."

defacto7

(13,485 posts)

3. To the evangelical

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2018, 01:02 PM

Aug 2018

God appoints everything. It's all God's will no matter how inhuman or stupid.

They can't see how logically invalid that is. Oh I forgot, Man's logic is not God's omniscience.

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