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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:37 PM Mar 2014

Kentucky Baptist churches giving away guns to lure ‘unchurched men’ to Jesus

The Kentucky Baptist Convention is organizing gun giveaways across the state in an effort to help “unchurched men” find Jesus Christ.

Chuck McAlister, a former Outdoor Channel hunting show host who is in charge of the effort, told The Courier-Journal that 1,678 men have already made “professions of faith” at “Second Amendment Celebrations,” where they showed up hoping to get guns as door prizes in the last year.

On Thursday, Lone Oak Baptist Church in Paducah was planning to giveaway another 25 handguns and shotguns. And organizers expected as many as 1,000 people to attend.

“The day of hanging a banner in front of your church and saying you’re having a revival and expecting the community to show up is over,” McAlister explained to the paper. “You have to know the hook that will attract people, and hunting is huge in Kentucky… So we get in there and burp and scratch and talk about the right to bear arms and that stuff.”

The Courier-Journal points to an Internet video of McAlister speaking to Silverdale Baptist Church’s men’s wildlife supper last year in Tennessee last year. The 30 minute talk focuses on hunting and opposition to gun control, but makes little mention of Jesus or religion.

“How many of y’all own guns?” he asks the crowd.

“That is awesome,” McAlister responds to the raised hands. “We’ve got an army right here!”

The paper reported that 103 men made “salvation decisions” to accept Christ as their savior after the meeting.

But not everyone thinks that using guns to sell God is great idea.

More here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/03/kentucky-baptist-churches-giving-away-guns-to-lure-unchurched-men-to-jesus/

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Kentucky Baptist churches giving away guns to lure ‘unchurched men’ to Jesus (Original Post) Playinghardball Mar 2014 OP

Can't Jesus just zap 'em with sonething? RedCloud Mar 2014 #1

So I'm guessing that these "churches" will write off the cost of purchasing the guns as Tanuki Mar 2014 #2

Next Thing We Know They'll Be Havin Them Thar Shotgun Weddings....... left on green only Mar 2014 #3

Think I'm going to start going to church MO_Moderate Mar 2014 #4

Oy nadinbrzezinski Mar 2014 #5

Most Excellent jsr Mar 2014 #6

That's Good! But I liked it better when it had the caption from the J man..... left on green only Mar 2014 #13

The absolute worst example of unGodly, unChristian, misguided, wrong, injurious, devilish..... northoftheborder Mar 2014 #7

Manipulative, despicable... 3catwoman3 Mar 2014 #15

lol. wonder how this would have played out if it was a mosque. La Lioness Priyanka Mar 2014 #8

marketing is everything Douglas Carpenter Mar 2014 #9

"Portrait Jesus" needs to be wearing a "Git 'R Done" cap! bullwinkle428 Mar 2014 #10

If there's a hell, it's fully populated with the people who come up with this kind of shit. n/t TroglodyteScholar Mar 2014 #11

Straight out of the new testament pscot Mar 2014 #12

As Jesus once said, "Turning the other cheek is for bitches" NickB79 Mar 2014 #14

I really think we need to round up all of these folks...... Swede Atlanta Mar 2014 #16

RedCloud

(9,230 posts)

1. Can't Jesus just zap 'em with sonething?

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:39 PM

Mar 2014

I guess the celestial beings need backup.

Tanuki

(14,918 posts)

2. So I'm guessing that these "churches" will write off the cost of purchasing the guns as

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:52 PM

Mar 2014

an outreach expense. We taxpayers are supporting their gun purchases. I'm sure the NRA loves this. Hell, they probably thought it up.

left on green only

(1,484 posts)

3. Next Thing We Know They'll Be Havin Them Thar Shotgun Weddings.......

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:56 PM

Mar 2014

......oh, wait!

MO_Moderate

(377 posts)

4. Think I'm going to start going to church

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:56 PM

Mar 2014

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)

5. Oy

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:57 PM

Mar 2014

jsr

(7,712 posts)

6. Most Excellent

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:58 PM

Mar 2014

left on green only

(1,484 posts)

13. That's Good! But I liked it better when it had the caption from the J man.....

Reply to jsr (Reply #6)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 03:28 PM

Mar 2014

......"no,no,no, you hold it like this!"

northoftheborder

(7,572 posts)

7. The absolute worst example of unGodly, unChristian, misguided, wrong, injurious, devilish.....

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:59 PM

Mar 2014

.....act of a supposed religious body that I know of.

3catwoman3

(23,987 posts)

15. Manipulative, despicable...

Reply to northoftheborder (Reply #7)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 03:33 PM

Mar 2014

...disgusting, pathetic, outrageous, idiotic, and horrifying are just a few other adjectives that come to mind without even trying very hard.

La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts)

8. lol. wonder how this would have played out if it was a mosque.

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 03:01 PM

Mar 2014

Douglas Carpenter

(20,226 posts)

9. marketing is everything

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 03:04 PM

Mar 2014

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)

10. "Portrait Jesus" needs to be wearing a "Git 'R Done" cap!

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 03:10 PM

Mar 2014

TroglodyteScholar

(5,477 posts)

11. If there's a hell, it's fully populated with the people who come up with this kind of shit. n/t

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 03:11 PM

Mar 2014

pscot

(21,024 posts)

12. Straight out of the new testament

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 03:23 PM

Mar 2014

The miracle of the guns and ammo:
12And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and arm themselves: for we are here in a desert place where we cannot stand our ground. 13But he said unto them, Give ye them to shoot. And they said, We have no more but five rounds and two Glocks; except we should go and buy arms for all this people. 14For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company. 15And they did so, and made them all sit down. 16Then he took the five rounds and the two Glocks, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude. 17And they did arm themselves, and were all dangerous: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them enough guns and ammo for another squad.

NickB79

(19,243 posts)

14. As Jesus once said, "Turning the other cheek is for bitches"

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 03:32 PM

Mar 2014

Swede Atlanta

(3,596 posts)

16. I really think we need to round up all of these folks......

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 03:52 PM

Mar 2014

disarm them and put them in an institution for their own safety and the safety of others.

How someone could read the New Testament and come away with a belief that Jesus would condone the gun culture is beyond me.

These are the fake Christians who read about 10% of the Bible and interpret it according to their desired outcome, not the intent or the words in the Bible.

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