WND readers want to know about packin' heat in church

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WND readers want to know about packin' heat in church and have chosen "Shooting Back: The Right and Duty of Self Defense" by Charl Van Wyk as their top pick at Shop.WND.com this week.

Van Wyk was attending a worship service in his South African church when he was called on to make instant decisions on those questions that seem to have no right answer: What would you do if armed terrorists broke into your church and starting attacking your friends with automatic weapons in the middle of a worship service? And would you be prepared to defend yourself and other innocents?

He chose to have his weapon – and use it – to protect the lives of his friends against attackers, and in his book he makes a biblical, Christian case for individuals arming themselves with guns.

About that attack on July 25, 1993, at St. James Church, he recalls:

"Grenades were exploding in flashes of light. Pews shattered under the blasts, sending splinters flying through the air. An automatic assault rifle was being fired and was fast ripping the pews – and whoever, whatever was in its trajectory – to pieces. We were being attacked!"

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But he pulled out his .38 special snub-nosed revolver and fire back. The attackers fled, and although 11 worshipers were killed and 58 wounded, many who were there believe the toll would have been much higher if he hadn't responded the way he did.

In second place this week, down from first a week ago, was a book about applying Madison Avenue methods to the kind of evil you'd have to wash your hands after thinking about.

The message is from David Kupelian's "Marketing of Evil, a project that "brings into sharp focus what many have sensed and suspected for a long time: The effort to change America's mind on issues like abortion, homosexuality, church-state separation, and more, is a well-thought-out strategic campaign that uses the methods of Madison Avenue to market rank lies."

That's according to D. James Kennedy, founder of Coral Ridge Ministries, who also noted that "the good news is that the truth will eventually win out, and Kupelian's important and groundbreaking book makes enormous progress toward that end."

Fox News Channel commentator and WND columnist Michelle Malkin says this book is needed.

"Every parent in America needs to read this book. David Kupelian skillfully exposes the secular left's rotten apple peddlers in devastating detail. … Kupelian shines a light on them all. Now watch the cockroaches run for cover," she says.

In third was "Apocalypse and the End Times," a DVD set directed by David Priest that looks at the world – and the prophecies of the apocalypse.

"There have always been catastrophes in the world ... but never before have there been so many, so frequently! Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, famine, disease and war... Are we simply experiencing the natural order of things, or are the signs we see all around us the warnings of the end times?"

WND Book Service readers chose – for the second week in a row – "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)" by Robert Spencer in the top spot.

The project reveals the "politically incorrect" truth about "Islam's violent teachings, bloody history, backward culture, and morally depraved founder." And it tells you why the Crusades "were justified wars of Christian self-defense against centuries of Muslim aggression."

The warning in the book is that when "PC propagandists assure us that jihadist terror doesn't reflect 'true,' 'peaceful' Islam, they're not only wrong, they're dangerous – because they lull America and the West into letting their guard down against their mortal enemy."

In second was "Godless: The Church of Liberalism" by Ann Coulter.

She writes how liberalism claims to leave religion behind, while it actually is building up its own altars. Such a church uses abortion for its sacrament, Roe v. Wade as its holy writ, cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal as a martyr, public school teachers as clergy and government schools as its churches.

Then of course, that "church's" creation story is written by Darwin, she notes.

In third was "Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies" by Gregg Jackson, a Boston talk-radio host.

He takes the wind out of the sails of liberal arguments on subjects ranging from the beginning of life, legalized abortion, the Whitewater investigation and the Clintons, prayer in schools, Democrats and the 2nd Amendment.

Here are the Shop.WND.com top sellers for Dec. 25-31.

1. "Shooting Back: The Right and Duty of Self Defense"
   By Charl Van Wyk

2. "The Marketing of Evil"
   By David Kupelian

3. "Apocalypse and the End Times (DVD)"

4. "Armed Response"

5. "Child Training Tips: What I Wish I Knew When My Children Were Young"

6. "Origins of the Fourth World War"

7. "The Annals of the World"

8. "Brotherhood of Darkness and Hope of the Wicked at special discount"

9. "The Christian Almanac"

10. "Lost Legend of the Great Pyramid - The Pillar of Enoch"

And here are the top sellers for the WND Book Service for the same time period.

1. "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)"
   By Robert Spencer

2. "Godless: The Church of Liberalism"
   By Ann Coulter

3. "Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies"
   By Gregg Jackson

4. "The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin"
   By Mark Skousen, ed.

5. "America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It"
   By Mark Steyn

6. "The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature"
   By Elizabeth Kantor

7. "The Life and Religion of Muhammad"
   By J.L. Menezes

8. "The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South"
   By Clint Johnson

9. "Applied Economics"
   By Thomas Sowell

10. "The Life and Letters of General Robert E. Lee"
    By Dr. J.W. Jones

This list does not include WND's two sister publications – Whistleblower magazine and Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin – always among the best-selling products in Shop.WND.com. If you're not subscribing to these two great companions to WND, you're missing out on the best monthly magazine and the best weekly, online intelligence newsletter in the world.