Pennsylvania
Related: About this forumPa. 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....
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,485 posts)In the more rural areas of Pennsylvania.
regnaD kciN
(26,035 posts)...it's probably better not to equate it to even standard fundamentalist Christianity?
underpants
(182,279 posts)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)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 Churchs 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)Thanks for the info about this offshoot. Moon is KCIA, Poppy bush called him a man of vision, during a post-presidential paid speech.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Mc Mike
(9,107 posts)Praise the lord, pass the ammo.
procon
(15,805 posts)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)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)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)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.
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)to be blessed. The pastor did mention a "rod of iron."