re who s next mormons and jews in article r et innh p ctron news ctron com king ctron com john e king writes pmy vivaldi acc virginia edu pete yadlowsky writes didn t christ tell his disciples to arm them selves shortly before his crusifiction i believe the exact quote was along the lines of if you have something sell it and buy a sword this from a guy who preached love deference of power to god and renunciation of worldly life in exchange for a life of the spirit if jesus did in fact command his disciples to arm themselves i would take that as yet another reason to reject christian doctrine for whatever it s worth like most religions the doctrine has good and bad in it i would certainly reject the current implementations of the doctrine no the above is a classic example of taking a scripture out of context it s taken from luke but note vs for i tell you that this which is written must be accomplished in me namely and he will be reckoned with lawless ones he then stated that two swords were enough for the group to carry to be counted as lawless so having more than the politically correct number of weapons was cause to be arresed and killed even then huh jesus overiding message was one of peace turn other cheek live by sword die by sword etc yes of course as in matthew do not suppose that i have come to bring peace to the earth it is not peace i have come to bring but a sword rjl rich loether snail mail university of pittsburgh the ideas email rjl pitt edu computing and info services mine voice epsilon drive all fax pittsburgh pa mine
