To: nickcarraway
“...the World Peace and Unification Sanctuary church, where couples will be blessed alongside their semi-automatic rifles.”
You know, I’m about as pro-gun as one can get, and I am somewhat religiously observant (and extremely understanding and tolerant of those who are more observant than I)...
...but that is just WEIRD!!!!
Blessing a person - yeah, that’s fine, I’ve seen it done ALL the time.
Blessing an inanimate object, one with no volition of its own and no soul - no, that’s akin to idol worship for me.
2 posted on
03/01/2018 12:23:33 PM PST by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
To: Ancesthntr
I don’t know of any religion that would qualify this as observant.
To: Ancesthntr
I agree; blessing the guns is a bit off.
To: Ancesthntr
Moonies is the craziest peoples.
13 posted on
03/01/2018 12:38:34 PM PST by
AppyPappy
(Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
To: Ancesthntr
“Blessing an inanimate object, one with no volition of its own and no soul - no, that’s akin to idol worship for me.”
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” Matthew 26:26
So you think Jesus was an idol worshiper?
14 posted on
03/01/2018 12:46:36 PM PST by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: Ancesthntr
At least it’s not snakes!
16 posted on
03/01/2018 12:50:24 PM PST by
mad_as_he$$
(We need common sense FBI reform.)
To: Ancesthntr
The Blessing of the Rifles.
In a number of port cities, there is a tradition of “Blessing of the Fleet.”
Precedent?
To: Ancesthntr
I’m with you, I’ve been an NRA member for 50 years and I’m a Benefactor Member now, but that’s kinda nuts!
24 posted on
03/01/2018 1:55:42 PM PST by
ManHunter
(You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
To: Ancesthntr
“...but that is just WEIRD!!!!”
Agreed.
To: Ancesthntr
Down in MS, they have the annual Blessing of the Fleet for the fishermen....bikers have their rides blessed and attach little Guardian bells to a cross frame, etc.
Holy Water is just regular water that's been blessed. Nothing weird about it to me to do something to evoke thoughts of God when we see/touch certain items.
31 posted on
03/02/2018 2:55:53 AM PST by
trebb
(I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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