Farah: Christians must arm themselves:

Joseph Farah writes:

Church shootings and mass killings have come home to America—just as I predicted they would.

The twin attacks in the Colorado Springs area this weekend prove a point: If churches turn themselves into gun-free zones, they will become killing fields when Christians are the targets.

The only thing that prevented the slaughter of hundreds at the hands of 24-year-old Matthew Murray at the New Life Church Sunday was one heroic, armed, female volunteer security guard who took out the shooter after he had killed two teenage girls in the parking lot….

Pastor Brad Boyd, who has led the 10,000-plus member church for only months, said the guard “is a real hero.”

“When the shots were fired, she rushed toward the scene and encountered the gunman in the hallway,” he said yesterday. “He never got more than 50 feet into the church. She probably saved over 100 lives. He had enough ammunition on him to do a lot of damage.”

Farah points to other attacks on churches over the last 30 years when the only thing that prevented much wider killings was the fact that a parishioner had a firearm. In post-Christian society, Christians are increasingly hated. Police cannot be everywhere. Christians must be armed—something that our Christians forebears in the Dark Ages, when Europe was overrun by barbarians, would have understood.

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Oleg writes:

In regards to your blog entry on Christians arming themselves, and basically fighting back when they are attacked; does this not go against the essence of Christianity? If one is attacked, wouldn’t the proper Christian stand there and accept whatever punishment is dealt to him; not fight back, run away, or go and call the police or file a complaint afterwards.

This woman who shot the shooter did what any normal human being would do. A true Christian however, would not have harmed the shooter. Isn’t there some sort of a passage in the New Testament that teaches salvation through suffering, or something along the lines of that? Isn’t the fundamental difference between Christians and gentiles, the fact that a Christian only harms and kills during times of war; while for a Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Parsi or Muslim, it is justified to take another mans life if that man is attempting to take yours—regardless if it is a time of peace or a time of war.

BTW, just a quick fun fact, the Torah had different moralities for times of peace and times of war.

LA replies:

Where did you get such absolute crap? Did you land on the planet earth yesterday? Do you know nothing of history? Is all you know about Christianity a couple of passages from the Gospels taken by themselves, not considered in context? Do you have no ability to think? Do you actually believe that the Christian religion has been a suicide cult for the past two thousand years? Are you not aware that Christians have lived in organized Christian societies for the last two thousand years, and that organized societies are not in the habit of commanding their citizens to allow themselves to be mass murdered by criminals and enemies?

And what about letting OTHER people be killed? Do you believe that if Christians’ children, neighbors, and wives are threatened by marauders, the Christians are commanded by their religion to stand by passively while their wives, children, and neighbors are killed? Did you THINK before you wrote your e-mail?

LA continues:

Why this comment annoyed me. This guy who knows nothing about Christianity, nothing about Christian civilization, comes along, telling Christians that by HIS non-existent understanding of Christianity they all ought to let themselves be murdered by criminals. Talk about chutzpah!

Alex H. writes:

“Let him who hath no sword sell his cloak and buy one.” Luke 22:36

Posted by Lawrence Auster at December 11, 2007 11:07 PM | Send