Christofascist Pastor Chuck Baldwin
Chuck Baldwin, a right-wing pastor and radio host who was the 2008 Presidential nominee of the Christian Reconstructionist Constitution Party, appeared on Sheila Zilinsky’s podcast over the weekend, where he declared that any Christian who does not own the equivalent of an AR-15 assault rifle has “denied the Christian faith” and is “worse than a heathen.”
Citing a passage from 1 Timothy, Baldwin asserted that every adult has “a duty to provide for your family, but you cannot provide protection for your family without being equipped to do so.”
“Therefore, you must have the means of self-defense,” Baldwin said. “And in our society today, that means a firearm in the similitude of an AR-15. Without that, you are not in a position, you are not even able to protect not just your family and your house, but your neighbors, your community around you; that we, as a community of people—that’s the militia—are given the God-given responsibility to protect our communities. That is a biblical requirement.”
Baldwin called on pastors to preach […]
No one would have believed 10 years ago or 5 years ago or even 2 years ago… that events would be this wacky, this god awful bad! How does anyone listen to these nuts and come away agreeing? How do they get a forum to spread this idiotic bs? And how, oh how can 35%+ and 80% of republicans think trump on down are doing a fantastic job if only those dems, the very spawn of satan, would stop with the sabotage.
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