LARRY ROMANOFF -- My God and My Glock – The Theology of Guns in America

My God and My Glock – The Theology of Guns in America

By Larry Romanoff

Global Research, January 20, 2020

Region: USA

Theme: Law and Justice, Police State & Civil Righ

The Glock is a series of  semi-automatic pistols designed Austrian manufacturer Glock Ges.m.b.H.

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According to Americans, God is a really pro-gun dude. In fact, one pastor of a New Bethel Christian Church gave a sermon where he announced that “God and guns were part of the foundation of this country.”, and invited his entire congregation to wear their guns to church to “celebrate our rights as Christian Americans”.

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Most US states permit the carrying of loaded and concealed weapons in churches. This has become a crusade where one’s belief in God and His Holy Gospels are at stake, with one minister claiming “When someone tells me that being a Christian and carrying firearms are contradictions, that’s just bull—“.

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In an article that Watching America translated from the German Die Tageszeitung was this passage:

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“Among the books on the shelf behind Pastor James McAbee’s desk are two Bibles. He quotes scripture from one – those passages that portray God as a warrior – and the other is hollowed out to conceal a pistol. Loaded. Always close at hand. James McAbee is a man of God and a man of guns. He makes more money from the guns than he does from God. James McAbee loved guns before he loved God. Now he loves both and doesn’t consider that contradictory. McAbee’s parishioners come to church armed, and he personally always has an Austrian Glock .40 caliber on his person or in his car.”

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One of the most jealously-guarded rights of Americans is the ‘right to bear arms’. And bear arms, they do.

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The US is the most heavily armed civilian society in the world, with only 4% of the world’s population, but owning more guns than all other citizens in the entire rest of the world combined. Private American civilians own more non-military firearms (about 310 million) than do all the police forces and military (about 225 million) in the entire rest of the world combined; if we include privately-owned military hardware, the total becomes much higher yet.