You Know What Churches Need More Of? Guns
From Indecision…
Conventional wisdom holds that combining firearms and houses of worship is a terrible idea. But rules, like commandments, are meant to be broken, which is why one church in Kentucky is thinking outside the cartridge box…
A Valley Station Road church is sponsoring an "Open Carry Church Service" in late June, encouraging people to wear unloaded guns in their holsters, enter a raffle to win a free handgun, hear patriotic music and listen to talks by operators of gun stores and firing ranges.
The event, slated for Saturday afternoon, June 27, is being promoted with online posters, including one using a red font resembling splattered blood with the words: "Open Carry Church Service."
Before your little liberal temper froths itself into a venti mint mocha latte with a double shot of outrage, let's try to be open-minded. People use guns for lots of reasons: target practice, hunting, skeet shooting… and there's no reason why you can't do these things in church. What if a six-point buck wanders right across your field of vision during the Noah's Ark pageant? Why not set up a trap shoot in the pews, using Communion wafers instead of clay pigeons?
Ahh, but naysayers will always say their nay…
The Rev. Nancy Jo Kemper of Lexington, who has lobbied against laws such as one allowing citizens with permits to carry concealed weapons, said the event "would nauseate Jesus."
Really? Maybe the Rev. Nancy Jo Kemper knows a different Jesus than I do, because the Jesus I know made it perfectly clear. "Blessed are those who pack heat, for they shall be called the children of God." Matthew 5:9, look it up.
In my edition of the Bible that's even printed in a splattered blood font, but I'm using the King Ted Nugent version.
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