People who pick this or that in any religion, creed, or lack thereof if they are not into 'organized religion' or book from the Bible, Qu'ran-Koran, OT, NT, etc. and only SEE that part of their 'religious book' are wrong in my opinion.
There are MANY 'religions' that are anti gun including some who even state that assault weapons are bad. Do your research on that if you want to learn.
I don't belong to an organized religion or 'Church' anymore although I am a Christian. I believe in God, I read the OT/NT Bible daily, I pray, I have read many other religious books including all kinds of books over the years and I am PRO GUN big time. I was raised as an old fashioned/strict Lutheran and my late husband was raised the same way. We were married in a Lutheran Church. I was married 2 years ago by an old fashioned minister in a simple ceremony. I have some Roman Catholic and 2 Greek Orthodox in my family background including a R.C. nun - Sister of Charity - now dead.
I have found that the UMC and many other churches and/or religions have gone super left wing, for lack of a better word, in the sense of being anti gun and/or really apostate in their 'preaching' and dogma. I find some of the Other side... super... well... I don't know how to put this now so I better not! I found some of the ones that preach "STUFF" from the pulpits from the super L and super R sides are just as vile and wrong in their so called preaching and APOSTATE talk that it makes me want to SCREAM! In other words the other side that worships at the ___ CABAL and talks about war mongering and KILL this or that people or 'religion' because God told them to is a bunch of !@#$%^&*()_+!!! THEY are just as bad in their so called 'Christian' (NOT!) faith as in any other religion. RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS come in all religions including Christian ones and they support extreme R and extreme L wing political sides of things! NO offense.
By the way, it was THOU SHALL NOT MURDER. Murder is different than killing someone in self defense. Self defense is just that - self defense! It does not mean going OUT to kill someone just to kill or kill ANY religious group or TYPE of nationality or invade a country and KILL people who never attacked YOU or your country! Big difference... there is a lot of blood on people's hands and that includes all of us in THIS world. USA included and some past, present and most likely future administrations! Pearl Harbor and that sort of WAR is a different matter.
Many religions have BLOOD on their hands, in their history and trust me it is not just Muslims as some uneducated people want to think or believe. There are good and bad people in ALL religions and hopefully the bad ones will see their mistakes, repent and not keep killing, screwing UP because some Leader tells them something else. NO offense.
I know many good people in ALL religions including ones who do NOT believe or THINK the way that I do. Ones that questioned their faith, religious upbringing, God, etc. I know many good Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, some agnostics, some atheists, etc. I GREW UP exposed to people 'different from me, my faith and nationality'. People from all over the world, educated ones and not so educated ones, legal immigrants, escaped from wars, tyrants, from the universities, my late parents and mentors friends, etc. I did not get raised with a tunnel vision attitude. I did get raised with a good attitude about America and her freedoms!
I have ALWAYS thought that since the tax code needed to be changed drastically that ALL people should have to PAY THEIR SHARE in a simple, flat tax fee and that INCLUDES religious groups, charities, churches, temples, mosques, etc.
I do not like those TV preachers and others of their 'ILK' who think that ONLY their type is the BEST kind while they preach hatred, more killing, more wars, promote some candidate in ANY party for Congress, the President or any other political position. They claim to be good x, y or z INSERT religion here and they are FAR from it with their hatred of ALL people in some faiths because NOT all of those people are bad. There are good and bad in those religions or lack thereof as there are GOOD and BAD in gun owners, Americans, any other nationality, any profession, etc.!
Just because a person believes in GOD does not mean that God thinks or told them to roll over and play dead if attacked. God wants the BEST for all of us and if that includes self defense, unless you are a true Quaker or Pacifist which is OK with ME if that is what YOU really BELIEVE, so be it... you will have to defend yourself, etc. from a threat - stop the threat and attack!
Sincerely,
Catherine
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew 22&version=9
Matthew 22 (King James Version)
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.