should a christian be a member of the NRA?
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why should law abiding citizens turn in their guns? \n\nits the criminals that the govt should be focusing on...plus if you require everyone to turn their guns in...do you really believe that criminals will follow suit just because they have made a new law? i doubt it...
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They would like nothing better. Just like the Taliban did in Afghanistan. If you dont promote Christian ideals in the Bizarro Fundamentalist America you would be stoned to death.\n\nI am particularly chucked to see the trash answer provided above mine. Here a blind dogmatic fundamentalist is taking historical notes of out context to prove America was founded to promote the Christian Ideal. But he left out the rest of history, where the founders placed protections against those trying to impose religious beliefs directly into the Constitution? Why, because of the religious persecution in England, among other reasons.  Now the Fundamentalists want to create their own nation where its OK to persecute others for not following your beliefs.
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War is a political action to acquire land. Don't ever let the Religion part fool you.\nWhat does a true christian have  to do with killing?\nNone.
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National Rifle Association
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I believe that he was patriotic in the sense that patri means father and he honored the fathers of his nation, being abraham issac and jacob, however, probably not patriotic in the sense you mentioned.  he instilled the values of obeying the government he was under(render to caesar what is caesar), BUT his ministry was for peace and of a humanitarian nature, no where is it mentioned in the gospels that it is ever, ever ok. to kill.  we should be against war and the depravation it causes.  that said it is important for us to pray for those who have hardened hearts to this issue, as well as prayer for those who are in the military.  they are doing what they are told but i am sure many of them would like peace.
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This is not a trick question. It is a statement of who you are.\nIf your code of conduct leans you towards extreme violence and hatred.If it moves you to fanatical religious views. Then pull the trigger.\nOn the other hand If you are about to be shot for opposing views.\nYou then have a  choice to make if you should live you would live a life unworthy of any human. Or honorably die and become a martyr for your cause .Which I would hope would be for the cause of Christ.
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I'm a christian and I take karate. Yes I think it's okay to learn martial arts to protect yourself or to take for fitness. There are a lot of christian martial arts groups as well.
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Yes because most right wing Christians are pussies who worship Bush as opposed to God. They are fine with war as long as it is not their blood being shed. Most of them are wimps who wouldn't fight anyway.
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I beg to differ with Swordsmith, his reasoning is a bit dull (pun intended).  For example, he sites the First Amendment to undergird his argument.  Said amendment I'll quote, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."  The plain intent in historical context is this:  the federal government cannot *establish* a particular Christian sect *by federal law* as the official church of the nation (as was the Anglican church in Britain) nor prohibit the freedom of worship (*free exercise*) for other Christian groups outside of the Church of England within the nation.  As an example Virginia, like some of the other states, did have a state established church [1].  The state established churches at the time were not disestablished by the ratification of the Bill of Rights, but rather by each states' legislature...and definitely not because the legislators thought that they should prohibit the state government "from taking any religion's side" with regard to the foundation of law.\n\nAs to this nation's founding document -- the Declaration of Independence [2] -- to say that it religion (in context, the common precepts of Christianity to be found in the Holy Bible) had nothing to do with law is ridiculous.  Let's take a look:\n\n* The signers based their actions to separate from Britan upon the Law of God (paragraph 1).  Again, in historical context we are not talking about any god: not Allah, nor Budda, nor Krishna, nor the Force, nor a secular general concept of a higher power, etc. but rather the Almighty God revealed in the Bible. "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."\n\n* That the rights they had were given by God and saw them as truth, not their opinion against the opinion that sided with King George III, Parliment, and their sympathizers in the Colonies (paragraph 2).  "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."  If Swordsmith is correct then the King and Parliment were correct in rejecting the Colonies representatives appeals based on this basis (surprising since the Colonist's view had its source in English law.[3])  Sir William Blackstone, author of the Commentaries on the Laws of England and a contemporary with our nation's Founders, explained this foundation at length. (By the way, the Commentaries were a top seller in the American colonies.) The following Blackstone quote is a bit long, but I include it because it gives you some context of what foundation our nation's founders' stood.\n\n"Law, in its most general form and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey.\n\nThus, when the supreme Being formed the universe, and created matter out of nothing, he impressed certain principles upon that matter, from which it can never depart, and without which it would cease to be. When he put that matter into motion, he established certain laws of motion, to wh
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A true Christian may participate in any activity that does not lead to slavery (being brought under the power of another), either for him(her)self or anyone else; He (or she), may participate in any activity that brings glory to God; He (or she), may participate in any activity for which he (or she) can honestly give thanks to God for granting him/her the privelege of engaging in.\n\n1 Corinthians 6:12\nAll things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.\n\n1 Corinthians 10:23\nAll things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.\n\n1 Corinthians 10:31\nWhether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.\n\nColossians 3:17\nAnd whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
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No it shouldn't congressional leaders have a right to practice their\nreligous beleifs just  like everyone else.\n\nThere is no such thing in the constitution that requires\nseparation of church and state.\n\nIt says simply that "Congress will make no law, establishing a religon"
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I do. You have me tagged right at the nail. I would have been a Republican because I admire their tough stances on crime and their fiscal responsibility. However, the evangelicals have taken a hold of the GOP alienating many potential members who aren't pro-life or anti-gay. I'm a Democrat because of many reasons but I disagree with them on some things, especially with the liberals. I'm a Goldwater conservative at heart and would like to see many people embrace fiscal conservatism. I do believe in God but I abhor how the Republican party has used Christianity to get ahead in the political arena and the evangelicals meddling in politics it's simply wrong. I feel sometimes like I have no party.
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No. Separation of church and state is a must. Do you remember why so many were willing to come to this wilderness to escape religious persecution?
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Christians... GET SOME MARINE!!
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We absolutely MUST protect the First Amendment!  It is the pinnacle of what we are as a nation, and to destroy it is to destroy the nation.  No joke!\n\nI had not been aware of any serious attempts to have us declared a "Christian Nation," but they must be resisted staunchly.  Not only because many of us are not Christian, but because we need to protect our rights even in the abstract.  It is true that non-Christians might be permitted to be citizens in a Christian Nation.  Or they might not.  Or they might only if they contributed to Christian churches.  In any case, this would not really be America, the Home of the Free and the Brave, if this assault on our First Amendment succeeds.\n\nEven if you are a Christian, do you really want to support losing our freedom?
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The question should be can you be a Christian and support U.S. policies.
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If 'the Church' you are referring to is not one of man's churches but rather God's one church (see New Testament for details), then rest assured that God has not given us his direction regarding gun control.\n\nThis is likely because it is not critical to your spiritual salvation. Whether or not you live in a country that has gun control laws or not doesn't affect whether or not you will go to heaven. You are, however, bound by the laws of that country (assuming they don't contradict God's instructions).\n\nMat 22:21  They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.\n\nIn other words, God does not 'teach' us about gun control, just as he doesn't teach us about whether or not a government should be responsible for highway development or how a light bulb works. Those things are Caesar's (man's) issues to concern himself over. God is concerned about something far more important than gun control: your soul.