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doxydad

(1,363 posts)
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 05:46 AM Jun 2014

Right-Wing 'Christians' Take It To a New Low By Handing Out Guns In Churches

Last month at the Lone Oak First Baptist church in Paducah, Kentucky, a line of people wrapped around the building waiting anxiously to get inside, but not because they sought spiritual guidance from Jesus Christ’s teachings, but to win one of the twenty-five guns being raffled off. One may be inclined to think Lone Oak First Baptist is an aberration among churches purported to be “followers of Christ,” but according to the Kentucky Baptist Convention, handing out human-killing weapons is the best way to get people into church. Last year there were at least 50 “Christian” church gun giveaways in Kentucky alone, and an official at Lone Oak Baptist said handing out free guns is a rallying point to bring people to Christ.

According to Lone Oak Sunday school teacher David Keele, “We’re doing two things here. One, we’re going to talk about the Second Amendment to bear arms. But that isn’t the primary thing. The primary thing is who Jesus is.”


http://www.politicususa.com/2014/06/16/right-wing-christians-handing-guns-churches.html

The only primary thing is that Keele and Kentucky Baptists lack even a rudimentary understanding of who Jesus was or why calling themselves Christians while crusading for 2nd Amendment rights makes them rank liars and anti-Christs for opposing Christ’s teaching.

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Right-Wing 'Christians' Take It To a New Low By Handing Out Guns In Churches (Original Post) doxydad Jun 2014 OP
Too many Baptist churches are just fronts for Tbaggers, as they were for KKK Hoyt Jun 2014 #1
Yep betterdemsonly Jun 2014 #9
So... they're handing out guns w/o any safety classes? sakabatou Jun 2014 #2
Don't worry about safety and background checks. Arkansas Granny Jun 2014 #3
Yeah, after all, it is white people getting the free guns CanonRay Jun 2014 #10
The transfer is usually done through a licensed gun dealer hack89 Jun 2014 #4
Ah sakabatou Jun 2014 #5
The Beat Farmers were prescient! Va Lefty Jun 2014 #6
Good thing it wasn't swords. Jesus is on the record as being anti-swords. tanyev Jun 2014 #7
"if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one" Lurks Often Jun 2014 #8
As in all things, context... LanternWaste Jun 2014 #11
MOAR SWORDSESES!!!12 frylock Jun 2014 #14
It's Not An ABC Church Dirty Socialist Jun 2014 #12
They only read the parts of the Bible about smoting folks Generic Other Jun 2014 #13
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
1. Too many Baptist churches are just fronts for Tbaggers, as they were for KKK
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 06:00 AM
Jun 2014

in earlier 1900s. To be fair, not true for all of them.

sakabatou

(42,141 posts)
2. So... they're handing out guns w/o any safety classes?
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 06:04 AM
Jun 2014

Are they doing background checks before handing out the guns?

hack89

(39,171 posts)
4. The transfer is usually done through a licensed gun dealer
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 06:43 AM
Jun 2014

Who is required by law to do a background check.

tanyev

(42,528 posts)
7. Good thing it wasn't swords. Jesus is on the record as being anti-swords.
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 08:38 AM
Jun 2014

Matthew 26:

51 And behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear.

52 Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.


Obviously, if Jesus were here today, he'd totally be a gun nut.



 

Lurks Often

(5,455 posts)
8. "if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one"
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 08:45 AM
Jun 2014

Luke 22:36

"He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one."

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
11. As in all things, context...
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 09:50 AM
Jun 2014

"They must now expect that their enemies would be more fierce than they had been, and they would need weapons. At the time the apostles understood Christ to mean real weapons, but he spake only of the weapons of the spiritual warfare. The sword of the Spirit is the sword with which the disciples of Christ must furnish themselves..."

Matthew Henry's Concise History.

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