Conservative Protestants tend to be much more literal in interpreting the Bible, arguing for a plain reading of the text (Harding,2000; Wuthnow,1990). This approach can be clearly seen with regard to the NRA’s emphasis on the plain reading of the Second Amendment’s language “shall not be...
Likewise, a contextual understanding of the second amendment, which enshrines the right to bear arms, makes it clear that its 1790s drafters meant organised militias. Again, originalists have extracted radically different interpretations. Now the second amendment is taken to mean that Americans can ...
One version of this was to dispute my assertion that the Second Amendment has become meaningless by counter-asserting that its meaning is perfectly clear. I’ve often seen this happen with Bible verses: If your ministers and teachers repeat an interpretation to you often enough, that meaning beg...
Second, we should enter into this discussion of Romans 13 with a deep distrust of "the State." At the most basic level, we all know that it's wrong to steal, and wrong to kill. The Bible also specifies that it's wrong to take vengeance against our enemies. "The State" was invented...
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1. a workaround to the second amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which has become necessary, because it was discovered that guns kill people. The Founding Fathers labored under the misconception that people killed people. 2. an effective way to increase violent crime, because it consoles the...
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The Bible nowhere either mentions or supports the ideas of "the brotherhood of man," "egalitarianism," "desegregation," "integration," and the "abolition of the nation state." Neither does it support or advocate a "one world government." ...
Yet we have conservative, Bible believing Christians who refuse to vote for or support Donald Trump because they believe he lacks the character of a good Christian even though he has been more supportive of Christian causes than any Republican President in half a century. ...
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