Though I agree where we are, I think of it differently. To say that our humanism, morals and Christian charity have "been weaponized against us," is to suggest someone has taken what is ours and done something to it. But as it always has been ours, the real problem is that we have become faithless in the name of a false virtue. Jordan Peterson makes a very good point in his discussion of the "meek inheriting the Earth." He points out that "meek" does not mean "weak." It means a man of deadly strength who chooses to live in peace. Frankly, our clergy have surrendered us to the non-Christian notion that we should all be weak and powerless. This is not the injunction. I believe it was when Christ had his final words with his apostles that he advised them to sell their cloaks and buy swords. You don't buy a sword at the command of Christ unless you will have a righteous reason to use it. When I attend church, there is commonly reference to the "Church Militant," struggling against death and the Devil. My criticism is that there is no "Church Militant"---only a "Church Complacent" that does not wish to challenge the secular atheist and pagan culture to its face. We all huddle complacently inside our churches, as though God is to be found only there---when God is at our elbow ever second of our existence outside the doors of the church.

So, nothing has been weaponized against us. Our churches have preached weakness and abnegation in place of courage and outspokenness. We have willingly thrown our own weapons away.

Another lesson is found in the account of the last days of King David, when he summoned his son, Solomon, to his deathbed and enjoined him to perform final justice on his enemies from the civil war with King Saul. There were those enemies he suffered to live...so long as he lived. The time was up, and King David named the names of those whom he enjoined Solomon to "fall upon." It was a meaningful passage to me for reasons of circumstance, but it had an eerie resonance to a scene that might have been from "The Godfather." And that's what Solomon did: carry out final justice on his father's mortal enemies, who could not be allowed freedom in life now that King David was no longer there to restrain them. So, while we should strive only to apply condign punishments, sometimes those include a sentence of death. But not as a blanket rule. And not as something we eagerly lust to perform. We are not to abandon our own humanity, for it is a rejection of God should we do so. Obedience to God far outweighs our lust.