Militia Morons
But Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.”
Call me naive or simplistic but I cannot for the life of me understand how someone could claim their plot to overthrow the government is based on scripture. Christ makes it clear that if his kingdom were an earthly kingdom his servant’s would be fighting to defend it. I’m not one to believe every single thing the media reports. But if these men were indeed plotting to murder police officers in cold blood then they are far from Christ indeed.
Nothing Jesus or the apostles taught tells us that murdering civil authorities is good or godly in any way at all. We are told that we will be persecuted for our faith at times, and our response to persecution is to turn the other cheek (non-violent resistance). We are not told to overthrow the government in order to avoid persecution, we are told to rejoice in persecution, because our patient endurance in persecution is the most powerful testimony we can share. If we are fighting to avoid persecution here and now, we are displaying a complete lack of faith, we are declaring we don’t really believe in heaven by trying to craft our little christian kingdom here and now.
When Jesus stood before Pilate he gave the crowd’s a choice, did they want Barabbas the political revolutionary or Jesus who was declaring a heavenly kingdom. I am convinced that many self identified Christians today would choose Barabbas again.
