Can’t Get Teens to Come to Church? Bribe Them With Deadly Weapons.
Saturday, July 12th, 2008I wish this was a joke but it isn’t. An Oklahoma Baptist church used a $800 semiautomatic rifle as a means to lure teens to church.
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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.
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A video on the church Web site shows the shooting competition from last year’s conference. A gun giveaway was part of the event last year. This year, organizers included it in their marketing.
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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.Ross said the church would give the gun away next year instead. He said the church spent $800 buying the gun for the promotion.
First of all, if people are so opposed to coming to church that you have to bribe them with $800 assault rifles then you should just give it up. They’re not coming for the church, they’re coming because they want the rifle.
And don’t even get me started on how insane it is for a church to be handing out deadly weapons to children. Of course these are the same teens that, according to the RRRRW, can’t be told about condoms or get the HPV vaccine because it will make them promiscuous. But apparently they can be trusted with semiautomatic weapons. At least I live nowhere near Oklahoma.







