On May 1, the Left's favorite day of the year, the CBS News show, Sunday Morning, devoted a highly positive segment to a pro-life minister.
"What's that?" you say. "Has the temperature in hell dropped 15 degrees? Centigrade?"
Not likely.
The segment was titled: "Christ or a Glock?" The Left is about as subtle as an electric cattle prod in the scrotum.
The man in question is an anti-gun minister.
Well, I guess he is a minister. He was introduced as "Reverend." But we were never told what church he is a reverend in.
The segment emphasized that he is a converted Jew. In my experience, the leftist media do not do positive segments on Jews who become Christian ministers.
So, I looked him up. The Huffington Post tells us that "Schenck was raised in a culturally Jewish home." I see. He was culturally Jewish. You know. As in "We don't believe all that Torah stuff, but we occasionally attend a Reform synagogue on Yom Kippur."
He runs something called Faith and Action. Its Alexa ranking is 5,086,319 internationally, and 733,780 in the United States. (Note: these numbers mean the site is invisible. GaryNorth.com, a subscription site, is ranked about 33,000 domestically. LewRockwell.com is ranked about 7,000.)
In short, he has no following. He has no influence. But he gets a segment on Sunday Morning. The producer wants the show's mostly non-Christian liberal audience to think that "Christians are finally coming around to our way of thinking." No, we aren't.
We read on the organization's Wikipedia entry: "In 2000, an ordaining council of the Come Alive New Testament Church of Medford, New Jersey officially commissioned Rev. Schenck as a missionary to Capitol Hill." So, he is a lobbyist.
Then what does he believe about guns? He doesn't really know. NPR -- Narcolepsy Public Radio -- says the following: "The Rev. Rob Schenck, president of Faith and Action, is an anti-abortion activist who believes gun ownership and the use of guns is a decision best decided by community leaders, and not the government." I am curious. Who are these leaders? Whom do they lead? How do they decide? It's all a bit vague -- rather like cultural Judaism. He told NPR:
"When you talk about aiming a weapon at another human being, no matter what the circumstances are, that's a question of paramount moral and ethical dimensions, so it's something that we should take very seriously, and I don't know that a lot of us are."
Again, it's all rather vague.
In the interview on Sunday Morning, Mo Rocca asked this:
"A man or a woman who wants to defend his or her family legally owns a firearm in case someone comes into their home. How is that un-Christian?""Well, first of all you're making an immediate decision that if someone invades your home, they are going to die," Rev. Schenck replied. "So you are ready to kill another human being in your home. That brings about a big ethical question for the Christian. And we're told in the Bible, we're even to love our enemies."
Knowingly or not, Rocca had gone to the judicial heart of the matter, biblically speaking.
If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double (Exodus 22:2-4).
"If he is struck" includes "with a .45 slug between the eyes." But all this is way too specific for Rev. Schenck, ex-cultural Jew.
The text refers to a thief who is after your property, not a murderer who is after your life. This is a soft-core case law. The Bible presumes that you are intellectually capable of extending the principle of private execution from a soft core case to a hard core case. It also presumes the same for a jury.
Rocca did not let him get away too easily.
"Even a potential intruder? Someone who's been coming into your home to hurt you?""Absolutely. Is it always God's will that I survive a violent confrontation with another human being? I'm not sure that's always God's will."
He is just not sure. He is a missionary-lobbyist on Capitol Hill, yet he is not sure.
The apostle Paul wrote: "For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?" (I Cor. 14:8).
In short, he is a mush-mouth for Jesus.
Then why do the liberal media fall all over themselves to give him free air time? PBS has even produced a documentary on him and his clarion non-call.
It is because Schenck is a man-bites-dog story. He has done to evangelical Christians what he did to cultural Jews. He has abandoned them.
We are also told this:
Schenck is not a pacifist, nor is he opposed to guns for hunting. The problem he says is civilians using guns for self-defense.
In contrast, non-Rev. Fred Reed has issued this certain call:
In the country where I grew up [rural Virginia], if you woke up and found a naked intruder headed for daughter's bedroom with a Bowie knife and a hard-on, you shot him and arranged to have the rugs cleaned. The sheriff wasn't greatly interested and the county prosecutor didn't see anything to prosecute. The scum floating on the gene pool wasn't a protected species. It wasn't the driving engine of the culture. It was just scum.Today you would be charged with the use of excessive force. The cadaver's family would sue. They would end up with your house unless they just ran you broke with legal bills. The outcome would depend on the racial make-up of you, the intruder, and the jury.
Of course, Reed is not an evangelical Christian. He's more of an evangelical redneck. But he grew up in a world in which most Americans thought more clearly than Rev. Schenck does.
The good news is that there are at least 300 million guns in the United States. Gun production is over 10 million a year -- twice what production was in 2010. Every time a talking head on network TV says the magic words -- "assault rifle ban" -- 10,000 Americans go out and buy another gun.
So, for Rev. Robert Schenck, I offer these sentiments. This is not a hymn, but it is surely a praise song.
A .45 for the bedroom,
A shotgun over the door,
A .30-06 for distance:
You don't need any more.
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