On The AR-15
Embryo Parson Posted on Monday, May 30, 2022 at 08:10PM All liberals and some conservatives (religious and political) will write me off when I say that American gun control activism is of the Evil One. I don't give a tinker's damn about their opinions. I really do believe that my former and present gun-rights activism constitutes a war against the devil. That's my story and I am sticking to it. Hear me out.
First, for the devil to achieve his goals against traditional Christian culture, he is going to have to wage an intense war against those parts of the former Christendom that harbor gun cultures. He has been largely successful throughout the Commonwealth due to its benighted Hobbesian deference to government. The citizens of the UK, Canada, Austrialia, New Zealand et al. have essentially surrendered their arms to the state. And that having been done, just look at how that those states are now coming against the traditional rights of Englishmen and the Church. Our American Founding Fathers knew this, and they warned us against it, and they therefore set some things into fundamental American law, arguably the most important of which is the right to keep and bear arms.
Second, in John 8:44 Jesus said that Satan "was a murderer from the beginning." And so he takes GREAT delight in advancing his war against traditional Western culture, liberty and the Church by sending crazed gunmen to slaughter children. He gets two for the price of one.
I am convinced that I am accurately assessing this thing. Change my mind.
And that being what it is, I excoriate conservative Christians who are in a dalliance with liberal hoplophobes, including a few trad Anglicans I know. For some inscrutable reason they find themselves hauling water for religious leftists. I find it just absolutely astounding.
So I will just come out and say it right here with reference to C.S. Lewis' "The Last Battle": if you support banning weapons like the AR-15, you serve Tash (though you might get let off the hook if you're Puzzle).
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Reader Comments (2)
I don't have an opinion one way or the other on your central claim here (that the devil wants to go after guns directly), but I will agree that it is hard to account for school shootings without reference to the demonic. America has been awash in guns for a very long time, and school shootings were almost unheard of before Columbine. Something changed, and it wasn't the availability of guns. This very basic point seems to be almost universally ignored.
Indeed.