Right-Wing Christians Take It To a New Low By Handing Out Guns In Churches

I find this "gun giveaway" phenomenon a bit perplexing. I am troubled by it but if the legalities are being followed there is not much that can be done. And I am not necessarily saying I am against it, I just don't quite understand it; maybe I am too old-school being a former NRA/ACA certified riflery instructor. (To throw a bit of irony into the mix, my "teaching" duties where part of my responsibilities as a staff member of a fundamentalist christian summer camp for girls - smirk.) Just something I ponder about,,,
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Last month at the Lone Oak First Baptist church in Paducah, Kentucky, a line of people wrapped around the building waiting anxiously to get inside, but not because they sought spiritual guidance from Jesus Christ’s teachings, but to win one of the twenty-five guns being raffled off. One may be inclined to think Lone Oak First Baptist is an aberration among churches purported to be “followers of Christ,” but according to the Kentucky Baptist Convention, handing out human-killing weapons is the best way to get people into church. Last year there were at least 50 “Christian” church gun giveaways in Kentucky alone, and an official at Lone Oak Baptist said handing out free guns is a rallying point to bring people to Christ.

The featured speaker at the Baptist gun giveaway was hired by Kentucky Southern Baptists as a traveling full-time evangelist who defended the Baptists giving away guns and said, “if giving away guns allows them to come into the doors of the church to hear that the church has a message that’s relevant to their lives, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.” The paid evangelist wasted little time getting to the Christian message that is relevant to people’s lives and told other Christians that, “There’s no government on the face of this earth that has the right to take this gun from me” to thunderous applause. The evangelist even said he believed in Christ’s message of turning the other cheek, but only to a certain point; a certain point that cannot be found in any of Christ’s teachings.

Right-Wing Christians Take It To a New Low By Handing Out Guns In Churches