And guns are not only for home burglaries but also for organizations like Deacons for Defense and Justice. Formed in 1964 they are a group of African-American war veterans who do not believe in passive resistance as Dr. King did but instead in direct action with the Ku Klux Klan when federal authorities refuse to intervene in or prosecute Klan lynchings, burnings, and beatings.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
