The God of the Gun: A "Divine Right" to an AR-15?

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The Thinking Atheist

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🗓️ 6 March 2018

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of the February 2018 Parkland, Florida school shooting, many Christians again claim that the right to own an assault rifle is God-given. We take a fair, candid look at the tragedy, the political maneuvering, the law, and the future of God & Guns in America.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go, the step-by-three, two, one, action!
0:06.4	Assume nothing.
0:08.3	Branch ball face blasphemy.
0:10.5	Question. Everything.
0:12.3	Find it extremely hard to imagine. Open your eyes.
0:16.4	It is quite all right to be an atheist.
0:18.6	The fastest growing group of people in the country
0:21.0	has been measured as being those who have no belief
0:23.4	or who are atheists.
0:24.9	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.3	Challenge the opposition.
0:28.9	You see religion on a hundred fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:47.6	It was February 14 Valentine's Day of this year.
0:52.0	Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
0:56.6	A 19-year-old male whose name I will not mention here
1:00.1	set off fire alarms inside the school.
1:03.1	And then when students filed out of the classrooms
1:06.5	he opened fire on him with an AR-15 assault rifle.
1:11.7	Imagine those moments inside the school,
1:15.4	inside the classrooms and the hallways,
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