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Originally Posted by WWJDnow
The straps aren't cruel. What's cruel is failing
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Jesus taught that weapons are more important than clothes. Namby-pamby so-called "churches" will deny this until they're blue in the face but such wretches have never read The Bible or are too addled to remember what they read in which case I ought to post Scripture:
Luke 22:36
Weapons then included sword, catapult, ballista, onager and scorpio. Some of these are better described as weapons of war rather than as modern sidearms would be described. Christians are not necessarily required to go nude but carry a big nuke. Pastors exist to decide the cut-off points in such cases. I personally do not go nude and do not carry battlefield nukes, for clarification.
Jesus knew that failure was a possibility, for Christians left to their own capabilities, and that must be why He commanded weapons at the priority level recorded by Luke:
more important than clothes.
"Weapon" here is an interesting word. Should modern Christians carry swords? Or would the modern equivalent be appropriate. What is the modern equivalent? When attacked by meth head or some freak on the crack cocaine or the LSD, how should Jesus' commandment be applied? Invariably they're poor, in the sense they've spent all their money on the gooz, because if they're not poor they're having a drug-fuelled sex orgy in their penthouses or luxury hotel suites if out of town on a bender it revolts me just to think about it but can we even imagine what they do? Under the influence? With social inhibitions cast aside? Where anything goes? ..and if you can think of something even more revolting than what we've tried in the last 12 hours spit it out we'll give it a go right here right now? Those people are not poor. Hell is certain but they had the choice and they chose something awful. Eventually the money runs out.
Luke 15:14-16
Luke records that it's not about pity. It's about compassion.
Some folks are able to invent nukes, arsenic cyanide, military grade laser beams, ²¹ºPo and so on – but do so on demand in the heat of the moment. Propellor aircraft countered by jets. Surprise night raids countered by radar. OK, nukes are not commonplace because hostilities have ceased. Inventions are not in a textbook, they're thought up on the spot and no doubt the energy delivered by any nuke could be harnessed to countermand its destructive force or, in line with Christ's command, reflect the harm back as a sword would do if you were quick enough with your own sword. It's the reason Jesus commanded weapons.
I do not carry nukes and do not have bayonets attached. I prefer to acknowledge Christ and in Luke's Gospel we have His most pertinent words. The poor are poor for a reason.