Saturday, November 8, 2008

"what does the Bible say about gun control?"

I haven't written explicitly about gun control. But Larry Pratt's findings are certainly consistent with what my argument in TNRNL (hat tip: Mike Martin)...

Beyond a positive case for gun freedom, one would be even harder-pressed to make a negative case-- for Christians to (somehow) invoke the State as a godly means to godly ends.

1 Comments:

At November 17, 2008 at 11:44 AM , Blogger Unknown said...

I don't have time for a full critique right now, but skimming through this article, Pratt seems to make a number of exegetical gaffes. He reads ideas into the biblical text that I think are not actually there, and he makes numerous statements I disagree with. (Maybe his thesis is motivated by politics, rather than by a desire to get to what the text actually says. Of course, I can hardly fault him for that, because my thesis is also partially motivated by politics.)

Still I agree with his conclusion that gun control is unbiblical, even if I disagree that the civil authorities are somehow divinely anointed to do things that would be wrong for us as private citizens to do.

Government is not God; it's just a bunch of politicians trying to pretend they're priests.

-TimK

 

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