WTF....

[pbmus]

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[lindysalsagal]

1. And the difference between this and the waco compound is.........??????

Oh, yeah. They're praying to the same gawd as most fundies, rather than branch Davidian.

So, it's all ok.

Nothing to see, here. Move along.

[SummerSnow]

2. He was right...

"And it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations," -President Obama

[NCTraveler]

5. +1 nt

[Cha]

19. And, they got so pissed and offended when

he said that.

[dewsgirl]

3. What the F fresh hell is this?

[NCTraveler]

4. Im not sure I get this.

Are these activists trying to get religious leaders to come forward? Are they morons? WTF am I looking at?

[BigmanPigman]

6. Is this the same church?

I saw this posted a few weeks ago and thought that the area is close to where an ex-friend (now married to a real neo Nazi) grew up with her gun loving, nut job family.
http://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/02/pa_church_plans_to_bless_assau.html

[spanone]

7. humans are broken.

[Glamrock]

8. Is this the same church?

[gratuitous]

9. Unification Church

This is a Rev. Sun-Myung Moon congregation. The late Rev. Moon had some . . . let's just say peculiar beliefs.

[poboy2]

13. As I'm sure you are aware...

Moonie leader 'crowned' in Senate
Republicans and Democrats attend cult blessing ceremony

The US Senate was used for a bizarre ritual in which the Rev Sun Myung Moon, the head of the Unification church, was "crowned" and declared himself the messiah in the presence of more than a dozen Republican and Democratic members of Congress, it was reported yesterday.
"Emperors, kings and presidents ... have declared to all heaven and Earth that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity's saviour, messiah, returning Lord and true parent," the 85-year-old Korean "Moonie" cult leader told several hundred guests at the meeting in one of the Senate's office buildings on March 23, according to the Washington Post.
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A spokeswoman for a Democratic senator from Minnesota, Mark Dayton, said: "We fell victim to it. We were duped."

It was unclear who gave permission for the Senate office building to be used.

During the ceremony Mr Moon invoked the blessing of all America's past presidents. He also claimed to have communed with other big names in history.

He told his audience: "The five great saints and other leaders in the spirit world, including communist leaders such as Marx and Lenin, who committed all manner of barbarity, and dictators such as Hitler and Stalin, have found strength in my teachings, mended their ways and been reborn as new persons."

It is not the first time he has claimed posthumous backing. His followers recently took out a two-page advertisement in the Washington Times to run a testimonial to him, quoting 36 former presidents "from the vantage point of heaven".

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/24/usa.religion

[gratuitous]

18. Yup

The farther you go into Moon's biography, the stranger shit gets. There used to be adherents haunting the streets, handing out flowers to likely looking marks and inviting people to come to meetings.

His major legacy appears to be the Washington Times newspaper.

[sarcasmo]

10. Republican Jesus.

[rzemanfl]

11. All these people should be committed and the AP should learn the difference between

a bullet and a cartridge. I bet these nut jobs do.

[Angry Dragon]

12. religion has been shown to ________ the brain

[backtoblue]

14. What. The. Fuck. Is. This.

And who the fuck are those people? This is some scary, twisted shit.

[MFM008]

15. Remember the old Planet of the Apes

And the cult of the children of the bomb?
Worshipping the atom bomb....

Same thing...kinda.

[dalton99a]

16. More pics:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5696468/pennsylvania-church-blessing-ar-15-guns-protests/

[brettdale]

17. wow Police should be looking into them

[TheSmarterDog]

20. Just like Jesus at the Last Supper.