Excellent post. But how am I to rectify it all with the fact that Newsweek lied? Hmmm. Well, it appears Newsweek didn't lie at all!
Posted by phidipides at May 23, 2005 10:19 PMI believe that the quotation cited is only one of three direct references Jesus made to actual physical weapons; the other two:
"I come not to bring peace, but a sword" (Matthew 10:30)
"...amd let he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one" (Luke 22:32).
But then that wouldn't fit the polemic, would it?
Posted by Marcus Agrippa at May 23, 2005 10:45 PMThey That Take The Sword Shall Perish
With The Sword (Matthew 26:52)