Hundreds gather at church for blessing ceremony featuring AR-15s

[Arkansas Granny]

Hundreds of crown-wearing worshipers clutching AR-15 rifles drank holy wine and exchanged or renewed wedding vows in a commitment ceremony at a Pennsylvania church on Wednesday, prompting a nearby school to cancel classes. With state police and a smattering of protesters standing watch outside the church, brides clad in white and grooms in dark suits brought dozens of unloaded AR-15s into World Peace and Unification Sanctuary for a religious event that doubled as an advertisement for the Second Amendment.

World Peace and Unification Sanctuary in Newfoundland believes the AR-15 symbolizes the "rod of iron" in the biblical book of Revelation.

The Rev. Sean Moon, who leads the church, prayed for "a kingdom of peace police and peace militia where the citizens, through the right given to them by almighty God to keep and bear arms, will be able to protect one another and protect human flourishing."

Moon is the son of the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon, a self-proclaimed messiah who founded the Unification Church, which critics regard as a cult. The younger Moon's congregation is a breakaway faction of the Unification Church, which had distanced itself from Wednesday's event.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hundreds-of-worshipers-gather-at-church-hosting-ceremony-featuring-ar-15s/

The picture at the site is really creepy. (I can't get it to post here.)

[sinkingfeeling]

1. IMHO, religion and insanity are closely related.

[pangaia]

2. Doodleydoo in the brain area.

[CrispyQ]

3. Too many stories read like The Onion.

[Initech]

4. It's official: America literally worships the gun.

[PatentlyDemocratic]

5. They are fanatics

Maybe they saw the Holy Hand Grenade in Monty Python and were inspired.

[johnp3907]

6. Here's some video from the event:

[sdfernando]

8. Beneath the Planet of the Apes

This is the exact thing I thought of when I saw the pic in the article.

Life imitates art with deadly consequences.

[johnp3907]

9. First thing I thought of too.

I haven't seen that movie in decades, but that scene really made an impression.

[sdfernando]

11. I have all 5 of the original run films

Even went to a marathon showing once where they showed all 5 in order.

It really was amazing the prosthetics and how the actors learned to walk and imitate movements. Much better than the CGI apes they use now.

[johnp3907]

12. Have you read the original novel?

When I heard Tim Burton was planning to do an Apes movie I imagined he would do something like the novel. I thought that would be interesting. When I found out he was just basically remaking the first film I lost interest.

[sdfernando]

14. No Ive never read it. I guess I should

but right now I’m on a mission to read all of James Rollins novels.

[johnp3907]

16. The apes live like 20th century humans.

They have cars and airplanes and everything. I think it would’ve been so wild if someone like Tim Burton would’ve made a film like that!

[sdfernando]

17. That was basically the ending

of his remake when Mark Wahlberg finally made it back to earth.

[hauckeye]

7. OMG I thought this was from The Onion

[haele]

10. Reminds me of one of those Heston "Planet of the Apes" scenes...

The underworld community of humans that worshiped the Nuclear Bomb? They ripped off their fake human faces during "church services".
I was 14 when I saw it on the late, late show...still stuck with me.

Same type of people. Worshipping their own destruction because it's "powerful".

Haele

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. Do people not remember the Moonies? These are Moonies!

[struggle4progress]

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