Gun Control and Idiots

So I watched Micheal Moore's documentary, Bowling for Columbine, a few days ago. It was quite an interesting revelation of how disgustingly afraid American society is and the power of the Media. It did not, however, convince me that I shouldn't have a collection of firearms hidden away in my underground basement/bombshelter/government hold out center. Not only was I not convinced by his arguments (perhaps I've done more research than him over the years?) but after doing a little looking on the net I discovered that the whole "documentary" was pumped full of lies. Sorry Mr. Moore, I don't date liars. Hilariously enough a few of the "facts" provided on his own website even discredited him. Particularly the entire speech by Charlton Heston that he so graciously provides on his website. If it's not obvious how Mr. Moore altered his speech then you might want to check this out.
But anyways, rather than tear Mr. Moore's "documentary" (after all it has already been done) apart I will talk about my stance on Gun Control, this really nifty thing that Democrats think will save the world. Being a southern boy I suppose I'm a bit biased, but I like to back up that bias with facts, unlike many of the left.
Let's take the example of the recent shootings in Colorado. A crazy man walks into a church and kills some people. Another church takes proactive action and one of its members volunteers to have a gun at the service in case of another shooting. The crazy man walks into the armed church and is killed. The armed citizen is praised as a hero. Then you begin seeing all sorts of gun control debates pop up with the anti-gun crowd ignoring the facts and ignorantly claiming that citizens shouldn't be able to get a gun. Now let's think about this for a second. If the woman in the church that stopped the shootings was not armed, there would have been several people at that church killed. Since she killed the man before he had a chance to kill a lot of people there were very few deaths and the lady was praised as a "hero". How ironic. Criminals do not want to give up their guns. Why would they listen to the government, which they so readily disobey on other subjects, when the government tells them to hand over their guns? They won't. Only law-abiding citizens will. That means that law-abiding citizens are the ones who are harmed because ONLY the criminals have firearms.
And another example. September 11th. Now the most infamous day in history, hopefully, for the rest of history. What if a citizen had had a gun on those flights? The terrorists only had knives. The deaths of 2,996 killed in the towers, pentagon, and flights. Don't forget the 4,233 US and UK soldiers. And the number that everyone overlooks; an estimated 80,000 - 88,000 dead Iraqi citizens. The bloodiest disaster since vietnam could have been stopped with the civilians on the airplanes having the right to hold a concealed firearm. For the leftists who are still scared that a perfectly sane, law-abiding human being will suddenly go crazy and go on a killing spree because the person behind them has their music turned up to loud; perhaps we could compromise by allowing armed pilots? No one had a defense. Thanks to that the most infamous day in history is no longer D-Day or Pearl Harbor.
Don't forget to think. The Nazis took away guns from the Jews before they began to systematically kill them. The Soviets didn't allow guns in the hands of their citizens because they were afraid that the citizens would rise against them. I am not a warmonger. Guns are not even a hobby of mine. But, if the government ever comes knocking on my door for my weapons, I'll be pointing a rifle right back in their face saying "Get off my property!"

Its not that easy...

Something I've been noticing a lot over the past few months is when people use arguments that make you wonder a little and then jump to the conclusion that it disproves the existence of God. For example I recently saw on a forum where an atheist found a description of the earth in the Bible that was written by an author who did not have a very scientific view of the earth (because the Bible was written a long time ago). He concluded that because of this the Bible was not written by God and that there was no God.

Did you notice how he jumped to the conclusion that God does not exist so quickly? That wouldn't even hold up in a freshman philosophy class. In this case they found a spot where man inserted his own theories about the earth. Now we know better and we realize that was a faulty viewpoint. But God should have known better all along. So why did he use archaic mythology in the description? Because God didn't write the Bible. That point could certainly be argued but to say that God doesn't exist is a non sequitur. When people find contradictions in the Bible or when they find a verse they misinterpret for lack of knowledge and they say that God does not exist is a huge logical fallacy.

Rather than saying that God does not exist we should realize only that our previous notion of him does not exist. Dr. Weatherhead stresses this point in his writing. I think it is a very important point. To limit God to whatever idea we have of him is dangerous. Because if that idea is disrupted by a new thought or another idea then our "God", that we have created in an attempt to understand, is disproved. I think that is probably (and many people will disagree with me) the reason why many people are atheists. Because their idea of God was fallacious and they did the intelligent thing and abandoned the idea. Unfortunately they did not innovate their beliefs and ideas about God afterwards.

It is not so easy to disprove whatever the true idea of God is. There is probably no human on this earth who entirely realizes what God is truly like. But if we did we would have no need to search for answers then would we?

First Post

Alright heres my first post out of I don't know how many to come. I've been both reluctant and wanting to start a blog for some time now. I've been reluctant to since it sucks time for those (me) who already overdose on computer time. I've wanted for some time to have a medium to record my thoughts on. I have many thoughts, insomnia is a major contributor to these so many of my thoughts are not worth writing down. BUT the ones that are I'd like to record. So since I am currently fairly busy I don't know how often I'll be able to post but at least for now it won't be too often.

So now an introduction of me is in order. I'm 17, I'm a senior in high school. I'm exceedingly interested in philosophy, theology, and science so you can expect that most of my posts will have something to do with that (because the title wasn't a dead giveaway or anything). I'm a musician, I play the guitar and the drums and while I don't consider myself very good yet I hope to one day be very good at both (and maybe more) instruments. I'm a Christian in some sense of the word. I don't agree with a lot of mainstream Christianity today, perhaps that is one reason why I started this blog, I even like to use the term Free-thinker to describe me even though I know that Atheists are usually the ones who use the term. So now I have introduced myself and I have introduced my audience because you wouldn't still be reading this if you weren't just a little bit interested. We'll see what happens from here.