Are there guns in Heaven?

our second amendment rights are sacrosanct

Seriously? Sacrosanct?

Do you realize what that means?

I heard the statement - "Our second amendment rights are sacrosanct" this morning on the news.  They were spoken by David Webb, a Sirius XM talk show host.  I was shocked.  But only for a moment.  Then I remembered - people really do seem to believe this.

I can't help but wonder, do they know what that means?

The number one definition of sacrosanct from dictionary.com is -

1. extremely sacred or inviolable:
   a sacrosanct chamber in the temple.

In case I haven't made the reference to sacrosanct and God clear enough - let's look at the origin of the word -

1595-1605; < Latin sacrō sānctus made holy by sacred rite. See sacred, saint

Clear enough?

Now, as usual, let's look at all of the definitions for sacrosanct -

1. extremely sacred or inviolable:
   a sacrosanct chamber in the temple.
2. not to be entered or trespassed upon:
   She considered her home office sacrosanct.
3. above or beyond criticism, change, or interference:
   a manuscript deemed sacrosanct.

Again, we see, as usual - the word has been watered down over time.  I'm actually surprised that the order isn't different, with the first one being last.
What was originally intended as a word to represent / describe something from God, is being lowered to represent / describe something from people.

The first and third ones are the key to this discussion today.

People who claim to be religious - including the Christians who, by and large, are part of the "religious right" and support conservative / republican candidates - are the ones I really mean to address here.  Certainly not all Christians are part of this group.  Certainly people of other religions are part of the "religious right" as well.  But since I'm Christian - those who claim to be Christian and support gun rights as part of the conservative agenda - this is the group I'm going to talk about / to.

Christians - should definitely know what the word sacrosanct means.  If you didn't already know - hopefully the info above has taught you something.  And I invite you to reconsider your stand on "sacrosanct second amendment rights".

Where did things go wrong?

What happened to the meaning of sacrosanct?

Like too many words in our vocabulary, and too many things in our lives - God has been removed.

That we can move from a word talking about God - to having that same word applied to buildings constructed by people - and then to documents written by people - it's sad.  

But it's worse than that.  Too many people still retain some thought of God with that word - and then think that these are God-given rights.

We need look no further than the Declaration of Independence to see that.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

These rights are not the key messages of Christianity.  I've written about that previously in Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

It gets worse though, since the next line is -

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

One line says the rights are God-given.  
The very next line says those rights come from the consent of the governed.
We've already slipped from God to people - and haven't even left the document that declared those rights to be God-given.

And so now, some (many?) think that having guns is a God-given right.
Therefore, some (many?) conclude that since an assault rifle is a gun - that having an assault rifle is also a God-given right.

Seriously?
Can a Christian really look at having a gun be a "God-given" right?

Jesus

Look at this, from when Jesus was arrested - and subsequently crucified -

Jesus Arrested