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In pictures: US gun-blessing ceremony
BBC ^ | February 28, 2018

Posted on 03/02/2018 5:42:47 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Hundreds of World Peace and Unification Sanctuary church members get their guns blessed in Pennsylvania.

Hundreds of couples packed a World Peace and Unification Sanctuary church in Pennsylvania to bless their weapons on Wednesday

The church believes the gun is the "rod of iron" cited in the Book of Revelation

A woman wears a crown of bullets in the ceremony in the rural Pocono Mountains

Guns were blessed with holy water during the event, scheduled before 17 people were shot dead in a Florida school

The church believes the Florida shooting could have been avoided had teachers been armed

Guns were inspected to make sure they didn't hold bullets, with zip ties added to stop them firing

Students from a school near the church were moved for the day while the event took place, and protests were held outside

The Rev Yeon Ah Lee-moon with her golden gun - the church is a small group that splintered away from the Unification Church founded by her father-in-law, the late self-proclaimed messiah Rev Sun Myung-moon

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 201802; 2ndamendment; goldengun; gunblessings; guns; korea; moon; mooneys; moonies; poconomountains; poconos; rifles; rodofiron; sunmyungmoon; unificationchurch; wpus; yeonahleemoon
Getty photos are a no-go, not sure about the rest at the link.
1 posted on 03/02/2018 5:42:48 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Don’t want to pull anything on that church!


2 posted on 03/02/2018 5:44:57 PM PST by Davy Crocket
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To: Davy Crocket

“The church believes the Florida shooting could have been avoided had teachers been armed”

The church isn’t the only one who believes that.


3 posted on 03/02/2018 5:58:39 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Suffice to say it is worth a look.

Those folks are carrying some pretty spiffy hardware.

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4 posted on 03/02/2018 6:00:50 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Lefty heads exploding the world over.


5 posted on 03/02/2018 6:03:33 PM PST by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Has anyone ever heard of this “church” up until now?

Is there something in the water in the Poconos or is it just a CIA training zone in plain sight? The Poconos also happen to be the home of the Gulen cult- the folks who tried to topple Turkey’s Erdogan.

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6 posted on 03/02/2018 6:04:43 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Our (Catholic) Church has a blessing of hunters every year on the Sunday immediately preceding the opening of the rifle season for deer. And our holy water is better. (Though I suppose that even a Moonie can boil the hell out of it....)


7 posted on 03/02/2018 6:08:06 PM PST by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Bonemaker

Are any of the photos from the link acceptable to post to the thread?


8 posted on 03/02/2018 6:10:26 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: piasa

Islamic Cleric in the Poconos
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3391864/posts


9 posted on 03/02/2018 6:10:28 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Praise the Lord & pass the ammunition!


10 posted on 03/02/2018 7:01:37 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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