tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34011427.post4874903906636368111..comments2024-03-26T07:00:11.620-05:00Comments on Wisdom of the Hands: creator or creativity?Doug Stowehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003845322415622289noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34011427.post-28809134912067513132012-12-16T19:18:44.935-06:002012-12-16T19:18:44.935-06:00Also, Adam, the right to bear arms is conditional....Also, Adam, the right to bear arms is conditional. Try getting on the plane with your 22 popper and see what happens next. Or try to visit your granny in the federal prison and see if they let you carry your deer rifle with you, even if you are on your way to the happy hunting grounds.<br /><br />And so folks associated with the NRA and other far right cults equate even the smallest restriction on their gun rights as a violation of the constitution.<br /><br />I'm not sure how you can explain your position to the parents of the dead children in Newtown, or what you can come up with to stop gun violence in America.<br /><br />If you can't do those simple things, then perhaps you should learn to keep mum, like the 31 pro gun NRA sponsored Senators who refused to be interviewed on the Sunday programs. They cannot explain their positions in light of such an awful tragedy.Doug Stowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13003845322415622289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34011427.post-65167302164444124182012-12-16T19:10:05.600-06:002012-12-16T19:10:05.600-06:00Adam,
Please read my post again and see if I said ...Adam,<br />Please read my post again and see if I said anything at all about abolishing gun rights. I did not.<br /><br />Those who only see things in black and white often miss what folks actually say.<br /><br />There was an incident of school violence in China last week in which 22 folks including children were stabbed. All lived. So yes, even without guns there can be ways folks can hurt others. But 20 children murdered dead should make you stop and think. What if the maniac in Newtown had been armed with a knife?<br /><br />There is no evidence or logic when it comes to "intelligent creation." There is some significant evidence of evolution, though it does not preclude the notion of an intelligent force in the universe far greater than our own. And so, no doubt in my saying that, you will imagine all kinds of other godless things I'm saying, and on nearly all counts you would again be mistaken.Doug Stowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13003845322415622289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34011427.post-90623124200524963722012-12-16T18:52:34.930-06:002012-12-16T18:52:34.930-06:00Our four fathers, who possessed the intelligence t...Our four fathers, who possessed the intelligence to create such a great nation, the longest standing of it's kind, saw the right to bear arms as the fifth most important right of all rights. It was only proceeded by life, liberty, the persuite of happiness, and the freedom of speech. After all, the freedoms that we are suppose to appreciate in this country came only by the rising up of individual men bearing arms, GUNS, for such a cause. <br /><br />I find it curious how one thinks that the abolition of such a right, which allows individuals the ability to protect loved ones and themselves against the selfish and sinful acts of those seeking to disregard the sanctity of human existence and GOD given rights would, in any way, be an answer to such evil. <br /><br />Outlawing guns will not keep those bent on harming others from their goals any more than outlawing drugs keeps people from embibing. Lest we forget the lawlessness and mass murdering that prohibition led to in this country. <br /><br />The tough question that should be asked does not relate to gun control but, the human condition. All humanity is selfish. The extent to which that selfishness reveals itself has become more prominent because, as a society, we have abandoned the teaching of personal responsibility, we have forsaken discipline and accountability, and we are more worried about hurting people's feelings or being insensitive than speaking the truth. That is what happens when we run from the logical idea of intelligent creation and drive God from our society. <br /><br />What you're missing is not the praying to God rather, the teaching of God. And not the God who we want but, the God that is.Adam Raischnoreply@blogger.com