Wow. Just wow.
KOCO 5 (Oklahoma City):
An Oklahoma church canceled a controversial gun giveaway for teenagers at a weekend youth conference.
Windsor Hills Baptist had planned to give away a semiautomatic assault rifle until one of the event’s organizers was unable to attend.
The church’s youth pastor, Bob Ross, said it’s a way of trying to encourage young people to attend the event. The church expected hundreds of teenagers from as far away as Canada.
“We have 21 hours of preaching and teaching throughout the week,” Ross said.[..]
“I don’t want people thinking ‘My goodness, we’re putting a weapon in the hand of somebody that doesn’t respect it who are then going to go out and kill,’” said Ross. “That’s not at all what we’re trying to do.”
Ross said the conference isn’t all about guns, but rather about teens finding faith.
What Would Jesus Do? Give a semi-automatic weapon to a teenager, naturally. Makes perfect sense to me. (/sarcasm)
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Christianity gone completely and pathetically wrong! These Christians are wankers.
I’d lie to get a free assault rifle…HA!
Reacto @ 1:
Please tell me when christianity was right?
Was that when America had all leave it to beaver families?
This will greatly delay a large number of Olkahoma Christian youth from passing through the pearly gates.
Bob Ross?!?!
No longer painting happy little trees but blowing away the critters living there. Wow.
Well, Christianity is about a father who kills his son. Guns seem like a perfectly natural enticement.
Q: What’s the difference between the Oklahoma/Kansas border region and the Afghanistan/Pakistan border region?
A: One is full of Islamic radicals, the other Christian radicals
wow.
i don’t even know what else to say.
c. atrox @ 6:
And the son was a brown person.
c. atrox @ 6:
Really? Out on Highway 61?
I found faith! And it came with a free gun!!
Maybe next year they can go to Disney flying through Atlanta Hartsfield?
nicole, if the neocons staged a false flag attack, declared martial law and sent blackwater to round up all the howler monkeys (including you, potentially) and throw them in their pre-labelled halliburton cages, would you then endorse arming your teenage nephew w/ a semi-automatic.
i’m a liberal obama democrat but i definitely see where t-jeff and c-hest were coming from w/ the whole 2nd amendment thing…
Onward Christian Soldiers!!!
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What an odd god they have.
Oh what a friend we have in Jesus.
Come on people don’t be stupid. They weren’t going to give them any bullets. Sheesh!
Honestly I wonder what goes on out in the wilds of this country.
really? like an ar15? as long as it’s a quality firearm i’d go to church in a second. they can be nice for hunting depending on what’s in season.
oh jesus would have been ok with it. i’m quite sure given the religious nature of blood sacrifice as an acceptable practice at the time, that jesus would have liked the idea of hunting (he fished with his pals. heck he wanted to get out there with ‘em so badly he even walked on wa…oh never mind.)
odanny @ 7:
i’ll bet the afghani population has better teeth too…
Professor Frink @ 18:
This is what goes on in the wilds on this country.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9gL.....re=related
And the well-armed meek shall inherit the earth. Can I get and Amen, and possibly some ammo?
yes, i do remember jesus talking about how we should convert people by giving them guns. in fact, wasn’t john, luke, matthew, and paul passing out guns in the good old day?
sarcasm
Clueless irony! You can count on the xtians to just keep giving.
Damn, I won’t qualify. I’m not a teenager.
From the link:
Friday evening, Ross said the gun giveaway had been canceled. Pastor emeritus Jim Vineyard, who ran the event, injured his foot and wouldn’t be able to attend. The gun giveaway was also removed from the church Web site.
So what are the odds that Pastor Vineyard accidentally shot himself in the foot?
I talked to some local Baptists about this and they about vomited.
Even if it was just one semiautomatic assault rifle it was one way to many according to them.
The whole thing seems more like a publicity stunt than anything else.
All this God and Guns talk is making me Bitter!!!
But don’t call me a whiner!!!
And Windsor Hills is a fairly upscale nabe, too.
Maybe the church weren’t able to beat their plowshares into guns.
They’re going to preach to a bunch of teenagers for 21 hours?
I wouldn’t go arming any of them either.
Once again someone proving why religion should be a personal thing…you know, the kind of thing you can’t do with other people (maybe your own personal family, and even then)
But maybe I’m wrong, maybe the best way to spread compassion (that is what religion is supposed to do right?) the best way is to give out Assualt Rifles…what part of compassion includes assault?
Here’s the staff:
http://www.windsorhills.org/?c=staff
Ross’s picture is at the bottom of the page.
wheeee @ 21:
Ack!!!! And I had pork for dinner!!!!
I’m shocked and flabbergasted. I can’t find any logic that could possibly work in this scenario.
“Kill a ______________ for Christ”?
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jitter @ 30:
Hey! maybe if they give all the kids guns and then preached to them for 24 hours…they would all feel like Christians…Slater that is!
Damn, it’s not Slater that in 24, it’s Southerland…all those white boys look alike to me!
nerac @ 5:
“happy little trees” Bob Ross died a long time ago.
Trittydi @ 34:
Like I said this was a publicity stunt one that they claim drew teens from as far away as Canada.
“Hey! Look what I figured out how to do with religion! I don’t even have to believe in it! These people will believe anything I say as long as I can convince them I am a man of their God. Imagine the possibilities…”
oompapa48 @ 36:
Well that’s a happy little assault rifle. Now let’s make some little bullet holes here…and here…and over here. Now isn’t that wonderful?
CAl @ 37:
They should concern themselves with the possibility that publicity stunts (even canceled ones) have the potential to backfire. (pun ignored)
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So what happens if one of these teens who gets the weapon goes beserk and shoots up the chapel?
Well at least the other teens will be armed.
And the rest of the Protestant congregants will learn how to genuflect.
Guess what guys! My reward for abdicating my authority to think for myself and to suspend the honesty-process to enjoy a comforting feeling earned me this killer gun! Controversy? Let God sort it out!
Professor Frink @ 28:
Here hear. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Trittydi @ 34:
I’m pretty sure it’s in one of those Zondervan Publishing versions of the bible where it says:
You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also, but not until after you pull the trigger of your assault rifle. And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
—Matthew 5:38-42
But I guess I shouldn’t credit the publisher who *ahem* didn’t make a dime off of it *ahem*, just the translator.
I remember a Lone Ranger episode where the Masked Man of the Plains took a budding gun-fighter to a popular revivalists tent (the minister was a reformed gun-fighter.)
The Lone Ranger immediately pulled out his silver bullet filled fancy revolvers and laid them on a small table outside the tent flap, and told his guest to do the same.
“This is a church, and guns don’t belong in here.”
I always wondered if this was an accurate reflection of the time, or just the writer’s attitude.
Bet if one of those young Xtian soldiers shot up a school full of the unsaved, Rev. Kracker wouldn’t take it on.
Bob Ross is one broken human being, come to think of it, what is the moral composition of a community that would tolerate this mind-boggling recklessness?
There should be a new term coined for these people.
They are in no way ‘Christians’, if by ‘Christian’ we mean someone who lives their lives following the tenets of Jesus Christ.
“And it did come to pass that Jesus went unto the Mount, and so that a greater host might hear to his sermon did let it be known among the people that lots would be drawn and unto one among the number of those who heard his words a new sword would be gifted…”
You’ve gotta be kidding me…
I wouldn’t mind being bitter
As long as she’s agreeable.
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Trittydi @ 34:
Jew, Arab, Nigger, Spick, Commie, Chink, Atheist … there are so many words that could fit on that line that J.C. would approve of
odanny @ 7:
A: Semantics
Trittydi @ 40:
Well every gun nut in the area is going to start attending that Church now thanks to the national media coverage it’s getting.
I guess you could say they were on target with this stunt.
Jesus is coming back…
A dark skinned, long-haired, bearded man in sandals and a coarsely woven robe…
Preaching an end to war, hate and prejudice and a love for ALL…
He will be hailed as the savior of mankind…
Until he gets to Oklahoma…
Where he will be referred to as ‘the hippie that was just asking to get hisself shot.’
Just as well they cancelled the giveaway.
If any of the Canadian teens had won a semiautomatic assault rifle, they would have had to turn it in the instant they crossed the border. Always assuming some trigger happy border cop didn’t mistake their sunburns for swarthiness, and blow the armed terrorist away.
And I think Andy K Jong Il [26] has a the a point worth investigating. Has any event organizer been admitted to an emergency ward with a bullet wound?
odanny @ 7:
You’ve never even been to any of these regions have you?
Yet you feel it’s fine to attack people you’ve never met.