Perhaps the gun-obsessed Alex Jones worshipping leaders of the Grace Baptist Church were just punning around, and really wanted their Troy, New York neighbors to think, “my piece I give unto you” as they published a flyer advertising a gun give-away as a way of increasing their congregants.
“My Peace I Give Unto You…John 14:27” reads the flyer. “Does the Bible defend my right to keep and bear arms?” it asks.
Pastor John W. Koletas, in a letter explaining his mission to add yet one more assault rifle to the streets, writes that his church has “decided to hold a special service honouring hunters and gun owners who have been so viciously attacked by the antichristian socialist media and antichristian socialist politicians the last few years. Our country was built with the King James Bible and the gun.”
Indeed, Pastor Koletas has a penchant for guns — and for Alex Jones, the libertarian conspiracy theorist. The church website has a section on “Conspiracy Truths,” featuring a link to Jones’ website and a link to frightening website titled Vatican Assassins. It also has a link to the anti-gay hate group American Family Association, professional hater Michael Savage, and a bolded statement that “Evolution is a lie.”
On their home page, the church offers this link: “Seventy-two killed resisting gun confiscation in Boston!”
The church’s site also states that there “is a literal Hell, which will be cast into a literal Lake of Fire with brimstone where the devil, fallen angels, and all lost people will spend eternity without escape, hope, or relief for rejecting Jesus Christ.”
No doubt, an AR-15 is a good way to get there.
Meanwhile, Republican state assemblyman Steve McLaughlin is totally A-OK with the give away.
“It’s a legal product,” McLaughlin told WNYT News. “Churches raffle off items all the time. My church has a $10,000 raffle every single year. I mean, I don’t know how it’s a controversy, quite honestly, that law-abiding, church-going citizens of New York that are legal gun owners are taking part in a raffle to raise funds for a church. I don’t know why that’s controversial.”
Watch:
http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/embed/iframe?aspect_ratio=16×9&auto_next=0&auto_start=0&page_count=4&pf_id=8648&pl_id=17047&rel=3&show_title=0&tags=vertical_news&va_id=4972081&volume=8&windows=1