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Confronting the Idol Worship of Guns

By March 22, 2018October 29th, 2021No Comments
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CTS professor Matthias Beier was recently published in the Tikkun Daily on the subject of the NRA’s idol worship of guns.

Gun“To translate the message of the NRA pointedly: God wants you to have a gun. Only the NRA, America’s pimp for the gun industry, could come up with that blasphemous idea. The narrative that only guns guarantee freedom is what keeps lawmakers from passing sensible gun laws that effectively prevent school shootings.

As a father of school age children and as a seminary professor, I have a responsibility to debunk this harmful worship of guns. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not against gun ownership or the 2nd Amendment. The NRA wants us to believe that the debate about preventing school shootings is about taking all guns away. It is not. Forbidding gun ownership would only feed into the very paranoid fears of government takeover the NRA bases its power on.”

Read the full article here.

 

Related link: CTS Statement on School Shooting in Parkland, Florida