Has the Second Amendment Become a Religion?

[Warren Stupidity]

by DEREK BERES

Recently I was chatting with Dr. Christopher Ryan, co-author of Sex At Dawn, for an upcoming column on sexuality and imagination. During our conversation, he mentioned that every time he discusses gun control on his podcast he receives dozens of emails complaining about his views. I concurred, noting that whenever I criticize an aspect of any religion on this site, dozens if not hundreds of comments range from honest debates to, more commonly, vitriolic retorts.

"Maybe that’s a column for you," he replied. "How the second amendment is like a religion."

It certainly feels that way. When it was announced in late December that President Barack Obama was taking executive action on gun control, I braced for the inevitable onslaught of rhetoric, fear mongering, and hatred. I wasn’t disappointed.
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An inability to discern fantasy from reality; the notion that what you want to be is the way it needs to be; an irrational fear of someone who believes something differently from what you do, regardless of research or facts contradicting your position; the desire to take up arms to defend said irrational position: The Second Amendment might be about the rights of a militia, but in modern America we’ve certainly made priests of our politicians and clergy of our lobbyists.

http://bigthink.com/21st-century-spirituality/has-the-second-amendment-become-a-religion

[MariaThinks]

1. more like a cult

[CanonRay]

3. Took the words right out of my mouth

[Cartoonist]

2. Vitriolic retorts

Surely, not here!

[NeoGreen]

4. "Well Regulated" (nt)

[LeftishBrit]

5. As an atheist and a non-American who may not understand the finer points of the Second Amendment...

I have thought for some time that some of the Tea Party types worship their guns as graven images!

[whitefordmd]

6. No more than the First Amendment. eom

[Act_of_Reparation]

7. No, it isn't.

But it shares many qualities with religion, that's for sure.