‘Good news’ doesn’t need guns to survive, thrive – The News Leader

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The Bible in its various forms has survived thousands of years without the help of the Second Amendment.

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OPINION

Timothy Troxler, Stuarts Draft Published 11:05 a.m. ET Dec. 12, 2019 | Updated 11:06 a.m. ET Dec. 12, 2019

As of last night, my county is a Second Amendment sanctuary. This is not surprising given that we're a big rural farming county. People made their voices heard, and the government responded. This is democracy in action.

What did surprise me was one local business owner stating "without the Second Amendment, we have no protection over Bibles". What a complete nonsense statement. The statement is completely ahistorical. The Bible in its various forms has survived thousands of years without the help of the Second Amendment.

The oral traditions survived Babylonian exile. In fact, this was a trigger for writing much of the Old Testament down.

The written traditions survived Hellenization. In fact, this was a trigger for translating the Old Testament into Greek.

The Bible not only survived the Roman Empire; it transformed the Roman Empire.

The Bible survived being stuck in Latin and survived the average person being illiterate.

The Bible has been through quite a lot without the help of our Constitution. To suggest the Second Amendment is the only protection for the Bible is one of the more arrogant statements I've ever heard. The best protection for the Bible is not to guard it with weapons; it is to give it away. Consider this: The root of evangelical means "good news."You don't protect good news by force; you protect good news by sharing it. Good news survives because it is like a wildfire in a drought - very tough to smother and it spreads all its own. So if you're using a gun to protect the Bible, I think you misunderstand how guns work and how the Bible works.

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