Matthew 5: 38-39
38. Ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
39. But I say unto you, ye resist not evil, but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other side.
The other day the Republican controlled Arkansas legislature passed a “Stand Your Ground Law”, basically telling Jesus and his teachings to go to hell. Thus today’s song is appropriate. Maybe the Arkansas legislatures misheard Jesus they must had thought he said “Whosoever smite thee on thy right cheek, stand thy ground and knock his teeth out”. Yes that must be how the Arkansas legislatures thought in went. I’m sure they all would say they heard it hath been said An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. But from the passage of this Stand Your Ground Law, they had no idea what Jesus said about An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, or maybe they didn’t care what the Hell Jesus says.
What the Stand Your Ground Law does is it removes the “duty to retreat” from all self-defense laws. I’ll give an example of this new law compared to the old law: if your working at a convenience store and a gunman comes in and points his gun at you telling you to give him all the money in the register you give him all the money, then he’s happy and starts to ran out of the store and then you take the gun under the counter and shoot him in the back 3 or 4 times as he is heading out the door. According to the old self-defense law you would be charged with murder. Way back in the late 80s went I worked at a convenience the only gun in the store was in the bottom of the drop safe, the owner knew there was nothing good would happen if we had a gun under the counter. By the way, most people thought there was a gun under the counter. Back to my example you see I’m not just making this up! But since Arkansas now has a Stand Your Ground Law you do not have a duty to retreat so you, by shooting the gunman in the back, running away, you will not be charged with anything because today you now have a right to Stand Your Ground. It’s all about removing your duty to retreat now if your mad your anger becomes your right to use your second amendment right and shoot and kill someone. All this law does is legalize murder.
I can best describe this with another verse of scripture.
From Matthew 7:15–20 (KJV):Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
All Stand Your Ground Laws are corrupt, and Un Christian. They directly go against Jesus teaching to turn the other cheek, or to use other words you have a duty to retreat! A corrupt law will never ever bring forth good fruit, it’s evil today, it will be evil fruit tomorrow.
You have to understand most of people attending my church honestly believe that the moment they arrive in Heaven Jesus will hand them their NRA card made of solid gold. For those who have dedicated their life here on Earth to the 2nd amendment Jesus will give them their very own assault rifle of coarse made out of solid gold with diamonds, and precious gems beautifully etched gold even better than the guns on Antique Roadshow! These guns magazines are not limited to 10 rounds and even 100 rounds No this is Heaven they can shoot their golden guns all they want their magazines are everlasting! And their bullets are solid silver just in case Heaven has a big problem with werewolves, you known just like they were fully prepared for the Zombie apocalypse here on Earth.
Some may say they would turn the other cheek, but just in case, they always carry a gun. That proves where their faith really lies, their faith is with Smith & Wesson not Jesus. They are preparing themselves to kill not to turn any cheek.
There is one good thing about this law. Since with the passage of this law the Arkansas Republican legislature has now lost any moral authority they once had or maybe they never had any in the first place. Since they made the choice to tell Jesus to go to Hell, like today’s song says, they have lost any opportunity to use Jesus in their future laws. This law was passed a couple of weeks ago they since have made nation news and made themselves the focus of attention, by passing several laws attacking the LGBTQ community. These laws will be my subject of my next post with the song of the day being something to do with power. That’s right power, like the rest of the red states the Arkansas Legislature has gone power hungry. An Arkansas commentator said last night on the news that he believed there would be more than 30 laws challenged in court for being Unconstitutional. The legislature believes they have more power that the U.S. Constitution
How do the pastors of Arkansas respond to the Stand Your Ground law? Do they stand up, standup for Jesus or do they remain silent just like it appears the previous 34 other state’s pastor did. If they stand up against this law they are going against the beliefs of the Holy Republican party. No they would be in agreement with the Arkansas Republican Legislature, maybe because they don’t want to harm their chance to get that assault rifle made of gold, I’m sure that’s it. I’m sure just the pastors in those other states, the pastors of Arkansas have no problem with telling Jesus to go to Hell!