Former Republican official: ‘You can’t be a Christian if you don’t own a gun’

[Canuckistanian]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/25/former-republican-official-you-cant-be-a-christian-if-you-dont-own-a-gun/

A former Executive Committee member of San Diego’s Republican Party, who now heads the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, recently told Texas churchgoers that “you can’t be a Christian if you don’t own a gun.”

Speaking to the “Deliver Us From Evil” conference at the Upper Room Church in Keller, Texas earlier this week, Dr. Gary Cass explained that America had a “broken moral compass” because it regularly elected “politicians who could justify killing babies made in the image of God” and “justify redefining God’s institution of marriage.”

“You have not just a right not bear arms, you have a duty. How can you protect yourself, your family or your neighbor if you don’t have a gun? If I’m supposed to love my neighbor and I can’t protect him, what good am I?”

[hrmjustin]

1. There are no words.

[Rick ungar]

2. Wow.

you need to be able to kill someone with a gun to be a part of his religion? sounds like the extremist taliban.

[sarisataka]

3. I guess I am a good Christian...

if that is all it takes. I know many bad Christians in that case. Come Sunday I'll tell the priest 'Start packin' or git packin"

[cthulu2016]

4. Yes, Jesus said just that.

It was all he ever talked about.

[Indpndnt]

5. Took the words right out of my mouth!

From the Gospel according to Glock. [url=http://www.cosgan.de/smilie.php][img][/img][/url]

[cliffordu]

6. Look at the graphic behind that gutless scumsucking cretin.

Perfect.

I'd say (based on the teachings of Jesus as I understand them) that anyone who owns a gun cannot be a true Christian.

YMMV

[susanna]

7. Well, obviously...

...before there were guns, no one ever protected their neighbor.

I hope I don't need that smilie. Oh, wait - there it is.

[bluesbassman]

8. Where'd he get that? The lost Book of Colt?

Here's a few of actual verses from the Old Testament these asshats like to get some of their theology from that apply to Dr. Cass:

Proverbs 18:2 A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.

Proverbs 18:6 A fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.

Proverbs 18 A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

[sarisataka]

12. You missed a passage

Book of Armaments, Chapter 2, verses 9-21
...And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O LORD, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy." And the LORD did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large chu...
"skip a bit, brother"
... And the LORD spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."

[bluesbassman]

16. Amen Brother Maynard!

[A HERETIC I AM]

30. "Now go and change your armor". n/t

[BVictor1]

9. I guess that makes me a Happy Heathen.

[Archae]

10. Notice? "Former"

With views like these, no wonder.

[pokerfan]

11. WWJD?

[whistler162]

29. shouldn't that be WWJS?

What Would Jesus Shoot!

I picture him more of a Uzii user.

[pokerfan]

36. or...

Who would Jesus shoot?

[LibertyLover]

52. Or maybe WWJC?

What would Jesus carry?

[truebrit71]

39. ROFLMAO!!!

That graphic has made me laugh so loud my fellow cube-rats were startled..

[Tommy_Carcetti]

43. Please tell me that picture is satire. nt

[pokerfan]

50. I always assumed it was

but you never know.

[aquart]

13. Pervert.

What a sick, twisted version of Christianity.

[gopiscrap]

14. and here I thought it was the other way around

[Douglas Carpenter]

15. I guess that is one interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount

[Samjm]

17. I'm his worst nightmare

I'm NOT Christian and I DO own a gun. Oh yes, and I'm a woman too.

[liberal_at_heart]

18. me too

You know the militia nuts are counting on the fact that none of us liberals will have guns. And you know they probably believe if our society collapses they will be able to just point a gun in our face and take whatever they want. I think when that day comes the're going to be surprised at how many of us actually do have guns.

[Samjm]

25. indeed

Best line I've ever heard on this topic: liberals don't want to take your guns, we have our own.

[Raine]

22. Same here, and I have several guns, he better not think all lefties are pacifists. nt.

[slampoet]

28. I'm a big pacifist and i have access to at least 3 guns....

a lot of people out there have no problem borrowing a gun.

[CreekDog]

19. Jesus was a bad Christian

well, well.

[coalition_unwilling]

20. My wife's pictorial reaction:

************

Sign she created for me to carry at my local anti-war vigil.

[dimbear]

21. Even God never used anything beyond a bow and arrow. This guy is out of line.

Don't know the Holy Writ like he ought to for a Christian.

[quaker bill]

23. When he said "turn the other cheek"

he really meant "shoot the SOB".

When he said "love your enemies" he really meant "double tap your enemies"...

[madokie]

24. I knew there was a reason I don't own guns or do religion

But I never thought one was because of the other

[bklyncowgirl]

26. Whatever happened to "He who lives by the sword will die by the sword."?

[slampoet]

27. If you can't be a Christian w/o a gun , the Chinese invented being a Christian.

which if you know anything about Buddha...is technically true.

[eShirl]

31. Turning plowshares into swords.

[HereSince1628]

32. If you took away Christians' guns only the sinners would be armed!

BTW catholic church has supported gun control...http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1100159.htm

[modem77]

33. To be that kind of Christian you will need a banjo too.

[lexx21]

34. As a kid growing up in a methodist church..

most of the people there seemed to be pretty normal (what we would call "normal" here). I have to ask myself "where in the hell did these people today come from?"

It seems that they crawled out from under some primitive baptist church rock or something.

If you have never heard of a primitive baptist before, look it up. It will likely make you skin crawl.

[hifiguy]

40. "Primitive" is the operative word.

In capital italics. Apemen who lived in caves and bashed each other over the head with mammoth bones were appreciably more civilized than this evolutionary dead end.

[hack89]

35. Now that's pretty fucked up. nt

[LP2K12]

37. Woah woah woah...

I love my guns but...

[hifiguy]

38. Un-fking believable.

This country has turned in to a vast, open-air lunatic asylum.

And people like this run around loose, unmedicated and unsupervised. And vote. Are there no asylums?

[MrScorpio]

41. Nothing says being a follower of a communal, long haired, pacifistic, religious hippie freak…

Like getting a gun to shoot people.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

42. That poor Jesus guy is screwed.

Stupid 1st Century non-gun owning, non-Christians.

[Aristus]

44. Not real Christians:

Simon Peter
Andrew
John, the beloved Disciple
James, the brother of John
Nathaniel
Matthew Levi
James the Little
Simon the Zealot (c'mon! You'd think he at least would have had a gun; but no...)
Thomas Didymus
Thaddeus
Phillip
Judas (a rope, yes, but no gun...)
Matthias
Paul
Barnabas

Oh, and

Lazarus
Mary, the mother of Jesus
Mary Magdalene
Mary, the sister of Lazarus
Martha

Not one of them owned a gun, in times far more dangerous than our own...

[GoneOffShore]

45. What a fuckwit. And some people say these theocrats aren't dangerous.

Right.....

[sadbear]

46. From the Book of Armaments:

"Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."

[mike_c]

47. why does anyone hand asshats like this a microphone...?

Sheesh. He has an AUDIENCE. People listen to what he says as though whatever nonsense he bleats has importance. For cryin' out loud, what is wrong with people?

[KamaAina]

48. Er, Jesus didn't own a gun.

Probably wouldn't have even if they had existed back then.

What a !

[Initech]

49. Gives new meaning to the phrase "praise the lord and pass the ammo".

[Ya Basta]

51. Bet he's invested in guns and ammo manufactures

n/t

[Meg_Griffin_1]

53. I own around 75 guns and I am not a Christian! n/t

[gollygee]

54. Did Christ own a gun? Was he a Christian?

Craziness.

[Hugabear]

55. Here is proof that Jesus was in favor of guns

[sarcasmo]

56. Every day I read this stupidity, I'M thankful for being Atheist.

[LeftishBrit]

57. As Jesus said: Blessed are the gun owners, for they shall create a profit for the gun manufacturers.

[lexx21]

58. This guy is one twisted turd....

He reminds me of my fundie former step dad, only more well spoken.

Step dad had colon cancer, had the cancer excised, post op infection, almost dies, becomes a super fundie after that. I am in college at the time (for EE) and he comes out with an armload of my semiconductor data books, which at that time were expensive and hard to get wanting to burn them because they were "satanic". I reminded him that the same components that were in those supposedly "satanic" data books were used in the machines that kept him alive in the hospital and that no he sure as hell could NOT burn my books.

This idiot turd speaking about Harvard in the 1600s being a virtuous school and now it is a bastion of evil. Hmmm... medical research that will probably save him when his head is removed from his ass..... a law school producing attorneys that may champion his causes, just to name a few. He likes to preach about how satanic the school is, but I sure bet he would be first in line if a treatment for an illness that he contracts were developed there.

They preach a good game, or at least what some would think is good, but in the end he is a hypocrite just like all of the other fundies out there.

Sorry for the rant... this guy got me pissed.