[Vision2020] Right to abortion overturned by US Supreme Court after nearly 50 years in Roe v Wade ruling

[Ron Force]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/opinion/uvalde-evangelicals-guns.html

...The AR-15-style rifle used in the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, last
month was made by an arms manufacturer that regards selling weapons as part
of its Christian mission. In a state where Gov. Greg Abbott declared
<https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-governor-greg-abbott-nra-convention-problem-not-guns-hearts-without-god/>,
six months after an earlier massacre, “The problem is not guns; it’s hearts
without God,” the gun’s provenance challenged pious suggestions that
declining religiosity might bear some of the blame.

Daniel Defense, the Georgia company whose gun enabled the slaughter at Robb
Elementary School, presents its corporate identity in explicitly religious
terms. At the time of the shooting, the company’s social media presence
included an image of a toddler with a rifle in his lap above the text of
Proverbs 22:6 (“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is
old, he will not depart from it”). For Easter, it posted a photograph of a
gun and a cross resting on scriptural passages recounting the Resurrection.
..

...It is easy to miss, but this melding of evangelism and the right to bear
arms is a step beyond the “natural rights” argument for gun ownership,
which holds that self-defense is a law of nature required to protect life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These rights are often said to be
God-given in the sense of being taken for granted, and they are enshrined
as such in the Declaration of Independence. As interpreted by many
evangelicals, the distant deistic “creator” Thomas Jefferson credited with
endowing such rights has become a specific, biblical deity who apparently
takes an active interest in the availability of assault rifles.

Why does this subtle shift in the meaning of “God given” matter? It’s
important to understand that for the manufacturer of the Uvalde killer’s
rifle, and many others in the business, selling weapons is at once a
patriotic and a religious act. For those who hold them to be sacred in this
way, the meaning of firearms proceeds from their place at the intersection
of American and Christian identities. Proposing limits on what kinds of
guns they should be able to buy — or how, when, where and why they can
carry them — is akin to proposing limits on who they are and what they
should revere...

...As the thunderous applause that greeted this testimony made clear, gun
culture is largely Christian culture. To imagine yourself as a Good Guy
With a Gun, as Mr. Willeford invited N.R.A. members to do, may inspire
action-movie day dreams, but it is ultimately a religious vision of a world
in which good and evil are at war, where God and firepower make all the
difference...
Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA


On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 9:17 AM Roger Hayes <rhayesmoscowid at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Saw a bumper sticker that said, "God, Guns, and Babies." I was kind of
> taken aback by the combination of those words, and I thought what kind of
> person, what kind of Christian would proudly tool around town with that
> message on their car? Then I look at photos of  the 6 Supremes who in the
> past week ruled on exactly those words and I thought, that's what kind of
> people would do that.
>
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 7:58 AM Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>
>> Right to abortion overturned by US Supreme Court after nearly 50 years in
>> Roe v Wade ruling
>>
>> The power to decide on abortion rights for tens of millions of women will
>> now be handed to the 50 states to determine individually.
>>
>>
>>
>> https://news.sky.com/story/right-to-abortion-overturned-by-us-supreme-court-after-nearly-50-years-in-roe-v-wade-ruling-12628801
>>
>> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>>
>> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
>> http://www.MoscowCares.net
>>
>> Tom Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
>>
>> “A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”
>> - Roy E. Stolworthy
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