Wasn’t Jesus supposed to be like, a pacifist? I also vaguely remember some bible verses talking about meekness and acting with kindness towards others, even your enemies.
But I guess that rhetoric doesn’t fly with the “alpha male” crowd who’s just itching for any excuse to shoot someone.
Wasn’t Jesus supposed to be like, a pacifist?
Sometimes he was. (Matthew 5:9)
Other times he was “if you don’t have a sword, sell your clothes to buy a sword” (Luke 22:36-38)
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That’s the “great” thing about the Bible, its got enough cobtradictions that you can make it support pretty much anything you want it to.
Yep. That’s how I convinced a doctor to graft a leg into the middle of my back, so I can use it like a kickstand when I get tired.
Doc said no at first. When I told him Jesus said it was cool on page 148, he got me the best leg they had on hand!
Gotta trust in Jesus kids, you just gotta!
The issue is that they don’t care. They don’t care if the Bible says anything at all about the subject their on about or even if it contradicts them. What the Bible actually says is irrelevant to them, it’s only what their glorious leaders pastors say it says matters.
The root of faith is authoritarianism, not any branch of morality or reverence or regard for history or their mythology.
I blame cowboys. More specifically, the old western movies. The good guys were just living their lives however they wanted without any gub’ment telling them what to do, and when bad guys showed up, you just blasted them.
I’m pretty sure, in reality, it was a pretty terrible time to be alive, but the movies make it sound like a libertarian utopia.
jesus only approves of devices that can kill more than 100 humans per minute. praise the lord
In fairness, I’ve always heard that quote in the context of negotiating with Nazis.
So this church seems a lot creepier than that quote, even.
American ammosexuals are deeply fucked up
I mean… At least a black guy got it, so he can defend himself from, you know, the rest of the church
European here. Could some kind spirit explain? Did that guy get a gun gifted for visiting church? Or did he visit church with a gun and it got somehow automagically blessed cos it was there with him? Sry, scratching my head over these rituals.
It was some sort of Father’s Day contest or raffle and the winner got an AR-15. This isn’t even all that unusual.
If you search for AR-15 church, you’ll see a bunch of stories.
America is a very fucked-up place.
This one isn’t all that far, geographically speaking from the megachurch down in Springfield that brings in tanks and armored vehicles for their conferences on “christian manhood” (pardon the reddit link…)
