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pbmus

(12,422 posts)
Wed Feb 21, 2018, 11:17 PM Feb 2018

Pennsylvania church facing backlash after telling couples to bring their AR-15 rifles to blessing ce

A Pennsylvania church is facing backlash after encouraging couples to bring their AR-15 rifles — weapons recently used in mass shootings — to a blessing ceremony next week.

The World Peace and Unification Sanctuary in Newfoundland say worshipers could also bring “equivalents such as an AK semiautomatic rifle,” to the Feb. 28 ceremony, the church website says.

http://www.nydailynews.com/amp/news/national/pa-church-tells-couples-bring-ar-15s-blessing-ceremony-article-1.3834420?

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Our love for guns is beyond the pale....and the newest reality show starts off with a prayer....

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Pennsylvania church facing backlash after telling couples to bring their AR-15 rifles to blessing ce (Original Post) pbmus Feb 2018 OP
"Lord, bless my AR so it kills more of your children." nt Ilsa Feb 2018 #1
Unbelievable. catbyte Feb 2018 #2
The "unification" should be a tip-off gratuitous Feb 2018 #3
I have the felling an ex friend's family attends that church. BigmanPigman Feb 2018 #4

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
3. The "unification" should be a tip-off
Wed Feb 21, 2018, 11:24 PM
Feb 2018

This is a Moonie church, which has its own special interpretation of Scripture. Let's just say you're unlikely to hear a sermon based on Isaiah 2:4.

BigmanPigman

(51,610 posts)
4. I have the felling an ex friend's family attends that church.
Wed Feb 21, 2018, 11:29 PM
Feb 2018

My sister visited our former friend's family who resides in this area near Scranton and she agrees. The dad is a authoritarian who still drives around (for 30+ years) with a loaded gun on his passenger seat. My sister never saw a gun before this. Our former frIend married a man like her father...a neo Nazi. She had KKK literature hidden under her bed which she forgot about when she moved out.

These people do not go hunting. They never have. They carry tiki torches and they own a lot of guns and they teach this mentality to their children and their childrens' children.

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