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From the article:

The problems started nearly a year ago when someone broke into a storage shed and made away with various items worth about $10,000 that included 40 paintball guns used by youths attending the church’s annual summer youth camps.

“ There was a time when a "church" was a sanctuary for worship (surrounded by the faithful dead), no church office, no "fellowship hall," and no paint ball guns.” [excerpt, —hiho hiho]

“While it IS wrong someone stole from a church, I also agree that paintball guns have no place in a Church of God.” [—I Hate Obama]

So a storage shed is a 'fellowship hall' and/or 'Church of God'?

Church sponsored summer youth camps often have things like paintball, motorcycles, horses, gokarts, etc.

I can just see it now, all those kids armed with paintball guns sitting on their motorcycles, horses, and gokarts in the sanctuary singing hymns...


If I didn't know better, I'd say somebody got a welting in a paintball game.

Several somebodies.


I'd post a picture of my paintball gun, but I don't want to cause anyone considerable mental anguish. (Oh the horror!)

[hiho hiho]

This boils down to, what is the purpose of “church?” (Or more exactly, what is the function of the Church of Jesus Christ in a pagan culture?)

Do we compete with the popular (read pagan) culture? Do we compromise with some aspects of popular culture? Is the Church a “cultural center” where we can take classes in art, go horseback riding, “kill” each other with paintball guns, play basketball, go on field trips...?