Christian pastors were instrumental in the American Revolution....they are needed today also, to defend freedom and stand against immorality.
Ah, yes, "Fight! Fight! Fight!" Well, maybe; the cause is certainly noble and just. But I'm forced to ask if any of us recall this passage:
When Jesus had spoken these words, He went forth with His disciples over the ravine of the Kidron, where there was a garden, in which He entered with His disciples. Now Judas also, who was betraying Him, knew the place, for Jesus had often met there with His disciples. Judas then, having received the Roman cohort and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons. So Jesus, knowing all the things that were coming upon Him, went forth and said to them, “Whom do you seek?” They answered Him, “Jesus the Nazarene.” He said to them, “I am He.” And Judas also, who was betraying Him, was standing with them. So when He said to them, “I am He,” they drew back and fell to the ground. Therefore He again asked them, “Whom do you seek?” And they said, “Jesus the Nazarene.” Jesus answered, “I told you that I am He; so if you seek Me, let these go their way,” to fulfill the word which He spoke, “Of those whom You have given Me I lost not one.” Simon Peter then, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear; and the slave’s name was Malchus. So Jesus said to Peter, “Put the sword into the sheath; the cup which the Father has given Me, shall I not drink it?”
Simon Peter would have made a great Tea Partier. All he wanted to do was "Fight! Fight! Fight!" for both his principles and his LORD. But Christ rebuked him and told him, in essence, that there are other ways to fight, and sometimes they involve sacrifice, and even what appears to be passive surrender.
I'm not advocating one way or the other in the nation's current and ongoing calamity. Just filling in Bill's contextual and perspectival omissions.
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