For those of you calling for a violent response, ignoring Charlie's deep spiritual faith

Yes, don’t sink to their level.
Let them continue sinking their own ship with violence and by condoning violence while conservatives take the high road with peaceful dialogue and prayer vigils.
But by all means, don’t trust them with your health care or children’s education. They don’t seem to have ethical leanings when your opinions don’t align with theirs.

I'm not even prescribing turning the other cheek, although that's biblical, not suggesting Christians or people who find the direction of our country disturbing, just to succumb to the violence

But for all of you macho he men that are talking about taking the fight to the enemy, what happens when you're out there being super mean to a barista, doing harm, and getting back at them
What if one of the wacko leftists in an environment of violence, some of yall seem to crave at least in your keyboard rhetoric..
attacks your family in your home ?

It is argued by some that Jesus restored the Roman’s ear to protect Peter from the consequences of harming a Roman soldier.

However, I agree with your premise. If you follow Jesus, he would frown on upon it. The Old Testament though….

Defending your family =\= going and killing random democrats. The former is fine. The latter not so much.

I've calmed down a little bit. Im still very mad, and i'm still going to have a very short fuse when it comes to anything or anybody woke, but i'm not going to go out looking for violence. Not for now anyway.

Not all of us who are angry are Christian or even religious.

I think the time for debate has passed, Charlie did that, it’s up to everyone now to fight in whatever way they can.

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We don't win a Holy war by cutting off the ears of our enemies

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The devil is due no forgiveness, nor are wars won by saving opponents ears as they remove your own. You conflate social and spiritual conflict. along with diplomacy and war. David was not about repairing Goliath's ear. He was neither given, not did he grant, quarter through diplomacy. He was about using his God-given talents and faith to slay his opponent, and physically overcome evil.

Put another way, if you came onto that UVU roof last week, with a gun, just as the devil incarnate was taking aim, would you kill him before he killed Kirk? Same question regarding the Charlotte metro incident.

Now perhaps there is a way to dissuade progs from the evils they seem intent on inciting, but we've tried words alone. Reason, rationale, and words alone have not worked. Trying the same thing again is not the way forward. As the saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Sanity will prevail.

Look at what's happening in the UK right now. That's what "not fighting back" looks like. Their English culture won't exist in 100 years.

I can't retroactively respond to your 1st post based on what you said later.

Feel free to do you.