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jimmy the one

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6. praise the lord & pass the ammo
Thu May 22, 2014, 11:14 AM
May 2014

defacto: Then we got into 2nd amendment issues .. he showed me a gun that he carries in his truck. He held it up and said, "This is the hand of God." ... I said, "but don't you trust God to protect you and your life just as much as your Internet access? Why would you need a gun when you have faith in God?" Then he replied with a kind of reverence, "If God calls me to use it, I will use it."

He's in the 'praise the lord & pass the ammunition' lunatic fringe, taking it literally - kill 'em let God sort 'em out - a gunnut true & true, a gunnut's gunnut.
They can justify just about anything in 'God's Name', & to boot, if they do done do wrong, they know he forgives them for doing it! What a religion. And thank G, er, goodness, for separation of church & state.

defacto: Those gods exist {in} the minds of fearful, angry and irrational hypocrites who can't even keep their faith in the God they believe in.

They twist it, justify whatever, & then self absolve themselves once something does go wrong. Not to say (presumably) all Christians are like this, just a small percentage.

df: I have just joined the ranks of those who want to see his "hand of God" taken away after all.. I see no reason for fallible humans with the propensity for false judgment to be the carriers of death walking and driving in the presence of us all.

Agree, but isn't much we can do about it, thanks to the nra & the rest of the maddening crowd of gunworld. I see no reason for the nra/gun lobby to throw this guy under the bus, jeez, they might make him the driver.




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