Buzz_B
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In my younger days I stepped in and stopped the rape of two different women from happening on two different occasions. In the second case the man was armed with a knife. Both times I managed to get the rape stopped using no weapon other than a bit of brute strength combined with words of wisdom.
Do I see myself as wrong for defending those women? Absolutely not. And I would have willingly died to allow them an opening to flea their attackers.
On another occasion my oldest son was busy out back of my home working in my garage and I looked out the back window of my home just in time to see a car fly into my driveway and a rather large and muscular man jump out and grab my son and start pounding his head into the cement floor with his fists. Did I hesitate to take action? No, I ran out there to the garage and grabbed the man up into a sleeper hold, keeping him bent just enough to keep him off balance while hollering to my neighbor to call the police, which they did.
I may have choked the life right out of that man that time for he was really fighting me and that had me afraid to loosen up my choke-hold on him. But an interesting thing happened. A young woman entered my garage and gently placed her hand on my shoulder and said very softly, don't do it. And she convinced him to calm down as well as me to let fully go of him so that he could stand fully upright face to face with me. And he and I and the young woman resolved it peacefully.
If we are going to defend ourselves it must be done in that kind of a controlled manner whenever possible. But this atmosphere we see being generated is not promoting that. The attitude that is being promoted is"hate and kill the attacker and feel no remorse." It is highly ungodly.
In fact, hate born of fear is all that is being encouraged by most who speak up on this matter. It is natural that we should hate these evil things. But it is the spiritual malady that we need to see and hate if we would really be effective. Our hate of people side-tracks that from happening.
Do I see myself as wrong for defending those women? Absolutely not. And I would have willingly died to allow them an opening to flea their attackers.
On another occasion my oldest son was busy out back of my home working in my garage and I looked out the back window of my home just in time to see a car fly into my driveway and a rather large and muscular man jump out and grab my son and start pounding his head into the cement floor with his fists. Did I hesitate to take action? No, I ran out there to the garage and grabbed the man up into a sleeper hold, keeping him bent just enough to keep him off balance while hollering to my neighbor to call the police, which they did.
I may have choked the life right out of that man that time for he was really fighting me and that had me afraid to loosen up my choke-hold on him. But an interesting thing happened. A young woman entered my garage and gently placed her hand on my shoulder and said very softly, don't do it. And she convinced him to calm down as well as me to let fully go of him so that he could stand fully upright face to face with me. And he and I and the young woman resolved it peacefully.
If we are going to defend ourselves it must be done in that kind of a controlled manner whenever possible. But this atmosphere we see being generated is not promoting that. The attitude that is being promoted is"hate and kill the attacker and feel no remorse." It is highly ungodly.
In fact, hate born of fear is all that is being encouraged by most who speak up on this matter. It is natural that we should hate these evil things. But it is the spiritual malady that we need to see and hate if we would really be effective. Our hate of people side-tracks that from happening.
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