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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 Christs 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, Were doing two things here. One, were going to talk about the Second Amendment to bear arms. But that isnt 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 Christs teaching.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)in earlier 1900s. To be fair, not true for all of them.
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sakabatou
(42,377 posts)Are they doing background checks before handing out the guns?
Arkansas Granny
(31,586 posts)Gawd told them it was OK.
CanonRay
(14,283 posts)So you know nothing will go wrong
hack89
(39,171 posts)Who is required by law to do a background check.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)tanyev
(42,980 posts)Matthew 26:
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)Luke 22:36
"He said to them, But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you dont have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one."
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"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.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)It is an LCD church. Great marketing! /sarc
Generic Other
(28,980 posts)And then they go do it.