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modrepub

(3,469 posts)
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 05:44 PM Feb 2018

Pa. church plans to bless assault rifles, associates them with return of Christ

A church in Wayne County in northeastern Pennsylvania has invited worshipers to bring assault weapons including AR-15-style rifles to a blessing ceremony, WNEP/ABC Newswatch 16 is reporting.

Area residents are uneasy about the fact that an elementary school is located near the church, and state police also have inquired about the ceremony set for next Wednesday morning, according to WNEP.

The church is run by the Moon family, and church leaders told WNEP they are expecting up to 600 people for the ceremony, with many likely armed with AR-15s.

WNEP said it interviewed a church leader who said, "This will be a big thing for us. It's a new stage for us because it incorporates the rod of iron, as it is in Revelations. Revelations talks about the returning Christ ruling with the rod of iron."

He said the AR-15 is the "rod of iron."

The blessing ceremony was scheduled before the mass shooting at a Florida high school last week.

According to WNEP, the Moon family also owns a nearby gunmaking company.


Link:http://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/02/pa_church_plans_to_bless_assau.html


This is the whole story. Story link adds another link to a local station. I guess you can't make this stuff up....

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Pa. church plans to bless assault rifles, associates them with return of Christ (Original Post) modrepub Feb 2018 OP
This proves Obama right about guns and bibles...... ProudMNDemocrat Feb 2018 #1
Uh, since this is the Moonies... regnaD kciN Feb 2018 #2
Rev. Moon was a gigantic supporter of the Republicans underpants Feb 2018 #4
Sect Link modrepub Feb 2018 #6
Gilda Radnor did a great parody song on SNL about Moon. Mc Mike Feb 2018 #13
Onward Christian soldiers vlyons Feb 2018 #3
Beautiful. My first thoughts, too. Mc Mike Feb 2018 #12
Money + Religion + Guns / Scam procon Feb 2018 #5
If the morons can't even get the name of the book of the Bible right Glorfindel Feb 2018 #7
If only there were a god FiveGoodMen Feb 2018 #8
I was unfriended from an old art school friend after BigmanPigman Feb 2018 #9
Forget the sword; Jesus will return with an AR-15 GeorgeGist Feb 2018 #10
Call me twisted, but I think someone should bring a great big dildo to that church PA Democrat Feb 2018 #11

regnaD kciN

(26,035 posts)
2. Uh, since this is the Moonies...
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 05:52 PM
Feb 2018

...it's probably better not to equate it to even standard fundamentalist Christianity?

underpants

(182,279 posts)
4. Rev. Moon was a gigantic supporter of the Republicans
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 05:54 PM
Feb 2018

He staged pro-Nixon rallies
He bailed Falwell out of debt so they had a white southern Christian face for the new cable TV
"God Guns and Gays" - he demanded the gays part

modrepub

(3,469 posts)
6. Sect Link
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 06:09 PM
Feb 2018

Yeah, this group appears a bit dangerous:

The Sanctuary Church, which also calls itself Rod of Iron Ministries, is a splinter offshoot of the Unification Church, or “Moonies,” founded by the late Sun Myung Moon in the 1950s. According to cult expert Steve Hassan, himself a member of the Unification Church in the 1970s, the Unification Church’s ideology is racist, homophobic and antisemitic.


https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/02/09/anti-lgbt-cult-leader-calls-followers-purchase-assault-rifles


Fell sorry for the people in the neighborhood who are stuck with these people.

Mc Mike

(9,107 posts)
13. Gilda Radnor did a great parody song on SNL about Moon.
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 07:40 AM
Feb 2018

Thanks for the info about this offshoot. Moon is KCIA, Poppy bush called him a man of vision, during a post-presidential paid speech.

procon

(15,805 posts)
5. Money + Religion + Guns / Scam
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 06:01 PM
Feb 2018

Wonder if their "nearby gunmaking company" could also manufacture and sell a miracle cure all elixir for the victims of the next gun massacre?

Glorfindel

(9,706 posts)
7. If the morons can't even get the name of the book of the Bible right
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 06:15 PM
Feb 2018

how can they be trusted to do anything else? It isn't "Revelations," it is "The Revelation of Jesus Christ." Not plural. No "s."
I wonder how they plan to bless the things? Anoint them with oil? Sprinkle with holy water? Have some serpents twine around them? Should be quite an interesting ceremony, whatever happens.

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
8. If only there were a god
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 06:45 PM
Feb 2018

He could give us another visit and set these fuckers straight.

As it is, any POS can go to the front of the room and tell everyone what "god" thinks and wants.

And it never occurs to the congregation to ask "how the hell would HE know what god thinks? We've all got the same bible."

BigmanPigman

(51,432 posts)
9. I was unfriended from an old art school friend after
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 08:29 PM
Feb 2018

I sent her one of my hand drawn Christmas cards which depicted the moron as a crazy Grinch with his finger on the nuclear button. She is from that area and is now a Fux Ruse, conspiracy loving hypocrite who loves guns, doesn't work, home schools her kids and collect Medicaide while bitching about liberals and their social handouts (she and her family are perfectly healthy and can work any number of jobs but choose not to). I just found all of this out in the past 7 weeks. Also, her husband is a neo Nazi just like her dad who drives around with a loaded gun on the passenger seat of their car my sister informed me of this recently too. I will send her one last card, also hand drawn. Since she loves the fucking moron so much it will include him, Bannon and Putin sending her Happy Birthday wishes.

PA Democrat

(13,225 posts)
11. Call me twisted, but I think someone should bring a great big dildo to that church
Sat Feb 24, 2018, 08:28 PM
Feb 2018

to be blessed. The pastor did mention a "rod of iron."

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