{"id":1030,"date":"2016-05-02T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2016\/05\/02\/christ-or-glock\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:26:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:26:34","slug":"christ-or-glock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Christ or a Glock?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8009,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.dlwtn.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9503,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cbsnews.com\\\/crime&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cbsnews.com\\\/crime\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9504,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cbsnews.com\\\/live&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cbsnews.com\\\/live\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9505,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cbsnews.com\\\/videos&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20180117193058\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.cbsnews.com\\\/videos\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 15:01:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 04:53:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 14:09:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 14:09:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nWe caught a brief bit of CBS Sunday Morning today as we were getting ready to return home from the 1st Annual East Tennessee Blogger Shoot put on by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dlwtn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dennis Badurina of Dragon Leatherworks<\/a>. More on the blogger shoot in another post.<\/p>\n<p>One of the stories featured was about the Rev. Rob Schenk, an evangelical minister, who is asserting that you can&#8217;t be both pro-life and pro-gun. His &#8220;conversion&#8221; to the anti-gun side came after the Navy Yard shootings near his home in DC.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class='cbs-resources'><span class='cbs-more'>View More: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/crime\/\" class=\"cbs-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime News<\/a><span class='cbs-pipe'>|<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live\/\" class=\"cbs-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live News<\/a><span class='cbs-pipe'>|<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/videos\/\" class=\"cbs-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More News Videos<\/a><\/div>\n<p>.cbs-link {color:#4B5054;text-decoration:none; font: normal 12px Arial;}.cbs-link:hover {color:#A7COFF;text-decoration:none; font: normal 12px Arial;}.cbs-pipe {color:#303435;padding: 0 2px;}.cbs-resources {height:24px; background-color:#000; padding: 0 0 0 8px; width: 612px;}.cbs-more {font: normal 12px Arial; color: #4B5054; padding-right:2px;}<\/p>\n<p>When Mo Rocca, the CBS correspondent, asked how it was un-Christian for a man or woman to want to defend his or her family with a firearm in case of a home invader. The response floored me.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>&#8220;Well, first of all you&#8217;re making an immediate decision that if someone invades your home, they are going to die,&#8221; Rev. Schenck replied. &#8220;So you are ready to kill another human being in your home. That brings about a big ethical question for the Christian. And we&#8217;re told in the Bible, we&#8217;re even to love our enemies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Rocca)&#8221;Even a potential intruder? Someone who&#8217;s been coming into your home to hurt you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely. <b>Is it always God&#8217;s will that I survive a violent confrontation with another human being? I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s always God&#8217;s will.<\/b>&#8220;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do not pretend to be a Bible scholar. If you asked me to produce a Bible verse to refute Rev. Schenk I would be hard-pressed to do so. That said, I firmly believe that under God&#8217;s law as well as under natural law I have the right, nay the obligation, to defend both myself and my family. Protecting the innocent against the depredations of violent criminals is a moral duty. If I have to use a weapon such as a firearm to do that, so be it.<\/p>\n<p>I think we are seeing a concerted effort by both the mainstream media and the gun prohibitionists to use people like Rev. Schenk to &#8220;shame&#8221; us into accepting more and more gun control. 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