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her, her loved ones, her car, and her
home! People have been invoking
Archangel Michael to protect them for
hundreds of years, and they are all still
suffering and being hurt. Others have
images of Archangel Raphael, who is
the healing angel, carrying a sword. I tell
you this right now, Archangel Michael
hates the images we have portrayed of
him holding a sword and shield
because he supposedly slayed demons.
He has never once battled or fought
‘evil’ or the devil the way people have
portrayed and prayed for him to!
The idea that guns, knives, or any
weapons are acceptable while being a
messenger of God stems partially from
the concepts of God and other deities
we have created. We humanized God
and all the deities! First we give God
and the angels human
appearances—anthropomorphism.
Fine, we did that to relate to them.
However, we also gave them human
traits—anger, vengefulness, intolerance,
etc.! Throughout human history we
have created ideas and images of God
battling and killing for the righteous or
chosen people, including the stories of
Noah and the flood, Sodom and
Gomorrah, Moses and the Angel of
Death, and more. Those stories of God
killing people gave permission for
people to kill people- all in the name of
God, of course. Think of the Crusades,
Joan of Arc, the Spanish Inquisition,
and present-day Arab terrorists. ALL kill
because they claim God instructed
them to.
We have even put weapons like swords
and shields in the hands of some of our
spiritual icons and called these icons
‘Warriors’! That is SO un-God like. One
Facebook posting I saw recently
showed a picture of Archangel Michael
with a sword and shield whom a
woman was asking for protection- for
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Use some critical thinking and common
sense for one moment. The most
important figure in Christianity, of
course, is Jesus. He was a messenger of
peace and love who SPECIFICALLY told
Peter to lay down his sword when the
Jewish temple soldiers came to arrest
him in the Garden of Gethsemane.