Citing the Second Commandment, North Carolina churches take aim at Second Amendment

American Evangelicals are famously supportive of gun rights. But a religious southern coalition, the North Carolina Council of Churches, believes that guns have become modern graven images and that they aren’t the “solution to our safety.” To that end, the council has put up a billboard just outside of Burlington picturing guns, ammo, and quoting the Second Commandment (the Protestant version, which Catholics usually count as part of the First Commandment). "For many of us, guns have become the symbol of safety, the idol we turn to because we ‘believe in them’ to keep us safe," the North Carolina Council of Churches told local news channel WBTV. "God commands the people not to have any idols. Idols can assume a lot of guises in our world that we don’t immediately understand as idolatry." -- More...