Quite often necessity triumphs over convictions. We saw this demonstrated one night in Kansas City. Our boys were quite happy paying cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians or some sort of boy games. When they offered to include a neighbor boy in their sport, he responded by saying that the Jehovah God does not use carnal weapons. This his mother and her religion had taught him. She was a follower of a religion we are inclined to call a "cult".
It is not our purpose here to defend toy gun play. Obviously, it would be better to play Bible games, but boys (and girls) do not see the logic of this.
The immediate sequel to this backyard theology lesson on the prohibition of the Jehovah God and the use of carnal weapons, there was a revelation of a modified theology and a demonstration that necessity may triumph over a weak theology.
It happened this way. One night we heard a loud clamor from the house of our neighbor. Obviously, there had been some violent disagreement. The husband was crying for help, saying that he was "bleeding bad". His wife who had denied the use of carnal weapons had deployed the use of a heavy ceramic lamp by breaking it over the head of her husband.
This peace loving lady rushed to our house to use our phone to summons aid for her husband, then with her little boy fled into the night. Her little son had learned another lesson - a different one - cap pistols are "out" and ceramic lamps are "in" when certain conditions of necessity exist.
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