Wednesday, June 07, 2017
Self-prohibiting barb
One of Babylon Bee's more gentle barbs against strange tendencies in Christianity.....
After a long, drawn-out internal battle, the Southern Baptist Convention narrowly voted to affirm the inerrancy of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution at a special meeting called to settle the matter once and for all, sources confirmed Tuesday. ... Gaines also said that churches that consider the Second Amendment as fallible are “chaff” destined to fade away as they continued to compromise core biblical beliefs like the necessity of owning a large and varied arsenal of weaponry, “and so they will fall into irrelevance.”Well-aimed barb. SBC hasn't done this explicitly, but definitely thinks this way. In this case the Baptists are basically right and Babylon Bee is basically wrong. Most advocates on both "sides" treat the Second Amendment as purely about guns. Even worse, both "sides" usually talk about hunting. That's NOT the point of the amendment as written, and a look at the Federalist Papers shows that the writing is exact. Arms includes guns but doesn't mean guns. Arms in this context means tools for self-defense. Swords, knives, satirical barbs, baseball bats, insecticides, fences, walls, dams, encryption, Faraday shields, anti-virus software, anti-virus vaccines. All self-defense tools, and all permitted by the amendment. The government wasn't supposed to prohibit any of these tools. The government now prohibits most of them from SELF-DEFENSE use. Using those tools for aggression is meant to be illegal, because all unprovoked aggression, with or without tools, is illegal. Owning them and using them for self-defense is supposed to be legal. Why? Because SELF-DEFENSE IS LIFE. If you can't defend your property and body and life and mind, you don't have property and body and life and mind.
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