Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feed1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx45.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Subject: Re: "Congress shall make no law..." Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns References: From: Just Wondering User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 31 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenet-news.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 07:40:41 UTC Organization: usenet-news.net Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:40:42 -0700 X-Received-Bytes: 2310 Bytes: 2543 On 12/20/2022 7:11 PM, !Jones wrote: > >> "The right of the people to >> keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" has a plain meaning >> that on its face can readily be understood by the average citizen. >> There is no hidden meaning or purpose. Anyone who argues >> otherwise is either ignorant, disingenuous, of lying. > > Here we see a good example of a religion... at least the beginnings of > one. In a religion, the adherents believe the tenets on faith. > Anything that challenges what they take on faith is simply "the lies > of satan". > > The sentence that ends: "... ,the right of the people to keep and bear > arms shall not be infringed" contains 27 words in its original text; > however, in a religion, that text was conceived by divine inspiration; > thus, any part of it, whether taken out of context or not, is as > perfect as the whole. > > Another property of a religion is the belief in an anointed person to > interpret the inspired writings from the mists of antiquity as these > apply to our lives today. This person (or group of people) speak with > the authority of God. Their edicts are tautological Truth and may not > be challenged. > > I'm not knocking religion. People who cannot think critically need > something that'll reduce to fit on a bumper sticker: "The Bible says > it. I believe it. That settles it", is an old standby. > It's simply incredible how you are able to pack so many false assertions into so few words.