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How much more things that pertain to this life?1Cor 6:3
British religious leader: Time for US to enact stricter gun laws
The Associated Press By The Associated Press
on December 22, 2012 at 2:39 PM
LONDON (AP) -- The spiritual leader of the world's 80 million-strong Anglican Communion threw his support behind stricter gun laws in the U.S. on Saturday, saying the easy availability of powerful weapons drew vulnerable people toward violence.
Rowan Williams, who is stepping down from his role as the archbishop of Canterbury at the end of the year, referred to the recent massacre of 26 children and staff at a school in Newtown, Conn.
Williams said it was hard to get into the spirit of Christmas given the "lives cut so brutally short and of the unimaginable loss and trauma suffered by parents." He made the comments on BBC radio program "Thought for the Day," a slot devoted to religious perspectives on life and current affairs.
Williams acknowledged that gun control was a sensitive issue in the U.S., but said the firepower that weapons manufacturers were putting at Americans' disposal made such massacres more likely.
"People use guns but, in a sense, guns use people too," he said. "When we have the technology for violence easily to hand, our choices are skewed and we are more vulnerable to being manipulated into violent action."
Britain has far stricter controls on firearms and far lower levels of gun crime than the U.S. - so much so that few British police officers carry guns and one of the country's biggest crime-prevention priorities involves keeping teenagers from carrying knives. Authorities in England and Wales generally record between three and five dozen gun homicides a year; in the U.S., comparable figures range between 10,000 and 11,000.
The Episcopal Church, a member of the global Anglican Communion, has around 2 million baptized members in the U.S.
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The British were tossed from this country once and a new country created apart from control of England. Let us not fall to the Bank of England, LIBOR and the House of Lords, The Rothschilds and the likes of Piers Morgan. It's the likes of the Martins and the Smiths in the schools and in society that lead this society to fall into the British practices mentioned above - to them its a joke, that they want to be in control of ...
How much more things that pertain to this life?1Cor 6:3
British religious leader: Time for US to enact stricter gun laws
The Associated Press By The Associated Press
on December 22, 2012 at 2:39 PM
LONDON (AP) -- The spiritual leader of the world's 80 million-strong Anglican Communion threw his support behind stricter gun laws in the U.S. on Saturday, saying the easy availability of powerful weapons drew vulnerable people toward violence.
Rowan Williams, who is stepping down from his role as the archbishop of Canterbury at the end of the year, referred to the recent massacre of 26 children and staff at a school in Newtown, Conn.
Williams said it was hard to get into the spirit of Christmas given the "lives cut so brutally short and of the unimaginable loss and trauma suffered by parents." He made the comments on BBC radio program "Thought for the Day," a slot devoted to religious perspectives on life and current affairs.
Williams acknowledged that gun control was a sensitive issue in the U.S., but said the firepower that weapons manufacturers were putting at Americans' disposal made such massacres more likely.
"People use guns but, in a sense, guns use people too," he said. "When we have the technology for violence easily to hand, our choices are skewed and we are more vulnerable to being manipulated into violent action."
Britain has far stricter controls on firearms and far lower levels of gun crime than the U.S. - so much so that few British police officers carry guns and one of the country's biggest crime-prevention priorities involves keeping teenagers from carrying knives. Authorities in England and Wales generally record between three and five dozen gun homicides a year; in the U.S., comparable figures range between 10,000 and 11,000.
The Episcopal Church, a member of the global Anglican Communion, has around 2 million baptized members in the U.S.
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These are the queens religious leaders, the queen being the head of the Anglican church, now renouncing the Bible and claiming Baal worship, she is the [figure]head of the masons, Knighted Paul McCartney and Elton John and Bill Gates and houses Madonna ... .
These are men who have approved of abortion, divorce, illegitimacy, homosexuality and women's ordination in their church/religion ...
The British were tossed from this country once and a new country created apart from control of England. Let us not fall to the Bank of England, LIBOR and the House of Lords, The Rothschilds and the likes of Piers Morgan. It's the likes of the Martins and the Smiths in the schools and in society that lead this society to fall into the British practices mentioned above - to them its a joke, that they want to be in control of ...
