Love your guns and bible? You might want to actually, you know, read your bible...

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Zach Green ‏@140elect · Nov 15
Love your guns and bible? You might want to actually, you know, read your bible. #uniteblue

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1. see? jesus wanted us to have guns because swords just aren't good enough!

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9. Unless I'm mistaken

he also wanted us to have teddy bears.

Looks like she's cradling one in her left arm, but I can't be sure.

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2. also: "mississippi mental HELLTH administration"?

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10. Pretty sure that image is altered

There is no Mississippi Mental Health (or Hellth for that matter) Administration.

Here's what I think is the original. It's from a stupid conservative attempt back in September to coopt the ALS ice bucket challenge by creating an "American Challenge" on Facebook. The Facebook post has since been deleted.

See: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/09/29/conservatives-try-to-make-their-own-ice-bucket-challenge-with-guns-flags-and-the-bible-photos/

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12. Good job! Now what is that in her left arm?

I thought it was a cat, but now it is looking like a stuffed animal.

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14. Gun cozy?

We may never know.

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15. That is hilarious. So I just had to look it up.

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3. They have.

"...and if you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one." - Luke 22:36

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13. That's one of the passages you aren't supposed to take literally.

Or so I'm told.

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4. That woman has a really big hairy left hand

Looks like it went through a graphics editor

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6. Isn't that a cat in her lap?

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7. OK, I got the lowdown on the image.

It is part of The American Challenge. This is a contest developed by some conservatives in response to the Ice Bucket Challenge.

The challenge is to post a picture of yourself with a gun, a flag and a bible.

This one garnered a lot of attention at one point.



But it doesn't include a cat.

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11. Ninja'd

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5. Unfortunately, there are other passages that gun lovers can use

to support their position.

The bible is just not a good source for this, but the article on the lack of correlation between religious belief and devotion to fire arms was really interesting.


I have a soft spot for Mississippi, but the misspelling on the sign in this picture is pretty darn hilarious.

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8. I once heard a radio preacher use that verse as justification for the death penalty.

Didn't quite understand his conclusion given the context of the passage, but that's what the preacher man said. Looks like it may have other interpretations, depending on what the lady in the photo is trying to say.

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16. Unfortunately, I think that Guns have become a religion in this country. (nt)