There's only one other religion I know of that hands out swords.
You misunderstand my post. (Intentionally?) I’d take the ceremonially armed KC guy any day, and back when I was a kid, these guys with their sashes and scabbards and swords were the coolest ever, always dressed in suits or tuxes with nary a tea towel on their heads. You are reading what into my comment? That the Catholic order of the Knights of Columbus is somehow equivalent to ISIS? Surely not. It is a charitable organization of considerable note and a defender of Catholicism. You were probably trying to be funny—didn’t work. The Catholics on this forum, whom I do not speak for, would be right to be offended.