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My point, Dunedan, to address your charge of a strawman (which was not the intent), is that the passages you quoted refer to a specific situation that Jesus and those close to him were facing. These verses have very little to do with whether Christians should carry weapons to a house of worship. You were quoting these out of context. If this wasn't your intent, you should have offered an explanation. Could you explain how Jesus advocates going to church services armed? If you don't believe he does so, then simply say it.
Now, the world was never a perfectly safe place. I admit that. But are you suggesting we should all be worried about the Unseen Enemy?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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