Now Bow Your Heads and Raise Your Glocks for Jesus.......

[marmar]

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via AlterNet's PEEK:



Kentucky Pastor Tells Followers to Bring Guns to Church

Posted by Melissa McEwan, Shakesville at 4:00 PM on June 26, 2009.

"Guns and God were part of the foundation of this country," said Ken Pagano . "I don't see any contradiction in this."




If there's one question to which I've always longed for an answer, it's: Who Would Jesus Shoot?

Ken Pagano, the pastor of the New Bethel Church , is passionate about gun rights. He shoots regularly at the local firing range, and his sermon two weeks ago was on "God, Guns, Gospel and Geometry." And on Saturday night, he is inviting his congregation of 150 and others to wear or carry their firearms into the sanctuary to "celebrate our rights as Americans!" as a promotional flier for the "open carry celebration" puts it.

"God and guns were part of the foundation of this country," Mr. Pagano, 49, said Wednesday in the small brick Assembly of God church, where a large wooden cross hung over the altar and two American flags jutted from side walls. "I don't see any contradiction in this. Not every Christian denomination is pacifist."

…"When someone from within the church tells me that being a Christian and having firearms are contradictions, that they're incompatible with the Gospel—baloney," he said. "As soon as you start saying that it's not something that Christians do, well, guns are just the foil. The issue now is the Gospel. So in a sense, it does become a crusade. Now the Gospel is at stake."

Louisville is less than four hours away from Knoxville, TN, where, less than a year ago, Jim Adkisson walked into a church and opened fire, killing two people and injuring six more, for which he is now serving life in prison. So maybe this whole God-'n'-Guns bravado is a wee bit, um, insensitive, apart from everything else wrong with it.

Just sayin'.


http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/140949/kentucky_pastor_tells_followers_to_bring_guns_to_church/

[kevinbgoode]

1. Obviously, the right-wing nutjob who murdered Dr. Tiller

believed you can take a gun to church too.

[sharesunited]

2. Almost to the point of being Church of the Holy Repeater.

But still keeping God around for sentimental reasons.

[Retired AF Dem]

3. Where is Glock ever mentioned?

everyone knows Gods gun maker was John Browning. Only a 1911 or a BHP in Gods hands.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

4. A link to the actual article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/us/26guns.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

5. From that article, gun control advocates marginalized.

Public attitudes also seem to be turning more sympathetic to gun owners. In April, the Pew Research Center found for the first time that almost as many people said it was more important to protect the rights of gun owners (45 percent) than to control gun ownership (49 percent). Just a year ago, Pew said, 58 percent said gun control was more important than the rights of gun owners (37 percent).

Gun-control advocates say they feel increasingly ineffective, especially after a recent spate of high-profile shootings, including last month’s murder, inside a church in Kansas, of a doctor who performed late-term abortions.

“We’ve definitely been marginalized,” said Pam Gersh, a public relations consultant here who helped organize a rally in Louisville in 2000, to coincide with the Million Mom March against guns in Washington.