Excellent post Jim. Christians are THE most persecuted religion in the world. Thousands killed. Even burned alive in their Churches! Closer to home, a Christian service was attacked by Antifa last weekend and THE SEATTLE MAYOR BLAMED THE CHRISTIANS!
They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. that's against their interests.
Note that in the megachurch example mentioned, ARMED security handled the intruder and prevented that person from entering the sanctuary filled with many people for a Spanish speaking service. That church has a Prayer team actively praying for the services and all the people there, as well as all who have prayer requests. The harm was limited to the intruder, who did not survive and the BOY that person brought in, who was grazed by intruder's shots and did survive. The intruder had a history of being born male and recently identifying as a female.
I have been "church" hopping trying to find one that I don't have to jump through a bunch of hoops and be a "member" for six months to participate in the music ministry. One that I had hopes for that wasn't very large, size matters not to me, had two men that carried. Sometimes the services would only have 20 people in them. Since I'm a guardian that has spent hundreds of hours in my lifetime practicing and can keep a 8" group rapid fire at 50 yards with my Glock 30, I asked the pastor for permission to carry. He said that if they two current defenders would approve I could do so. Well, they approved and then he backed out on his word and told me "he had to pray about it." I was like.. WHAT? Arkansas doesn't require you to announce that you are carrying in a church to anyone. You can UNLESS you have a carry permit. Then you have to ask permission. Makes sense doesn't it? Anyhow, I take issue with a pastor that goes back on his word. Funny thing is, he is a convicted felon due to some drug BS earlier on in his life and can't according to the "government" carry himself.
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Excellent post Jim. Christians are THE most persecuted religion in the world. Thousands killed. Even burned alive in their Churches! Closer to home, a Christian service was attacked by Antifa last weekend and THE SEATTLE MAYOR BLAMED THE CHRISTIANS!
Maybe the main thing missing in today's culture is very simply...common sense. Clearly, it's very uncommon nowadays. Sheesh.
They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. that's against their interests.
Note that in the megachurch example mentioned, ARMED security handled the intruder and prevented that person from entering the sanctuary filled with many people for a Spanish speaking service. That church has a Prayer team actively praying for the services and all the people there, as well as all who have prayer requests. The harm was limited to the intruder, who did not survive and the BOY that person brought in, who was grazed by intruder's shots and did survive. The intruder had a history of being born male and recently identifying as a female.
I have been "church" hopping trying to find one that I don't have to jump through a bunch of hoops and be a "member" for six months to participate in the music ministry. One that I had hopes for that wasn't very large, size matters not to me, had two men that carried. Sometimes the services would only have 20 people in them. Since I'm a guardian that has spent hundreds of hours in my lifetime practicing and can keep a 8" group rapid fire at 50 yards with my Glock 30, I asked the pastor for permission to carry. He said that if they two current defenders would approve I could do so. Well, they approved and then he backed out on his word and told me "he had to pray about it." I was like.. WHAT? Arkansas doesn't require you to announce that you are carrying in a church to anyone. You can UNLESS you have a carry permit. Then you have to ask permission. Makes sense doesn't it? Anyhow, I take issue with a pastor that goes back on his word. Funny thing is, he is a convicted felon due to some drug BS earlier on in his life and can't according to the "government" carry himself.
Carry anyway... the life you save may be that of your pastor's.
Good point. And I would.
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