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RE: Pennsylvania Church asks couples to bring in their AR-15's so they can bless the guns
February 23, 2018 at 3:16 pm
(February 22, 2018 at 10:14 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: (February 22, 2018 at 9:55 pm)Cecelia Wrote: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-r...church-for
Can you really say you're taking your own religion seriously when you decide to do something like this? I mean blessing an inanimate object? Seems like something you might do with a child and their security blanket, but not for an adult.
Catholics bless inanimate objects all of the time. The blessing of Christmas trees and bacon certainly seems strange to me.
http://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/blessings.htm
We do bless objects that have some sort of religious association, like rosaries for example. But lets be clear the church that blessed those guns is not catholic.
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RE: Pennsylvania Church asks couples to bring in their AR-15's so they can bless the guns
February 23, 2018 at 3:38 pm
I'm all for dowsing a bunch of AR-15s in water. Submerge them, and say a nice long prayer.
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RE: Pennsylvania Church asks couples to bring in their AR-15's so they can bless the guns
February 23, 2018 at 4:16 pm
(February 23, 2018 at 3:16 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: (February 22, 2018 at 10:14 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Catholics bless inanimate objects all of the time. The blessing of Christmas trees and bacon certainly seems strange to me.
http://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/blessings.htm
We do bless objects that have some sort of religious association, like rosaries for example. But lets be clear the church that blessed those guns is not catholic.
Just saying Christians like to bless objects, catholics was an easy list to find. Plus, you do bless tools and I sure theses people would tell you that guns are tools.
How is bacon religious? hehehe
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RE: Pennsylvania Church asks couples to bring in their AR-15's so they can bless the guns
February 23, 2018 at 4:19 pm
This is a waste of divine mana. That thing is really scarce.
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RE: Pennsylvania Church asks couples to bring in their AR-15's so they can bless the guns
February 23, 2018 at 4:35 pm
(February 23, 2018 at 4:16 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: (February 23, 2018 at 3:16 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: We do bless objects that have some sort of religious association, like rosaries for example. But lets be clear the church that blessed those guns is not catholic.
Just saying Christians like to bless objects, catholics was an easy list to find. Plus, you do bless tools and I sure theses people would tell you that guns are tools.
How is bacon religious? hehehe
I'm not sure what bacon blessing you are referring to, but my guess is they blessed the food for some sort of religious celebration, like Christmas maybe?
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RE: Pennsylvania Church asks couples to bring in their AR-15's so they can bless the guns
February 23, 2018 at 4:49 pm
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This seems kind of based on the benedictio armorum. During the dark ages were priests use to bless the armor and weapons of crusaders .
Of course America has this odd tendency to mix guns with christianity
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-rodda/good-riddance-to-jesus-ri_b_434657.html
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RE: Pennsylvania Church asks couples to bring in their AR-15's so they can bless the guns
February 23, 2018 at 6:41 pm
(February 23, 2018 at 4:35 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: (February 23, 2018 at 4:16 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Just saying Christians like to bless objects, catholics was an easy list to find. Plus, you do bless tools and I sure theses people would tell you that guns are tools.
How is bacon religious? hehehe
I'm not sure what bacon blessing you are referring to, but my guess is they blessed the food for some sort of religious celebration, like Christmas maybe?
You didn't read the blessings?: http://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/english/p01075.htm
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RE: Pennsylvania Church asks couples to bring in their AR-15's so they can bless the guns
February 23, 2018 at 6:50 pm
I was referring to the occassion in which it would happen.
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RE: Pennsylvania Church asks couples to bring in their AR-15's so they can bless the guns
February 23, 2018 at 6:58 pm
(February 23, 2018 at 6:50 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I was referring to the occassion in which it would happen.
Gentile Day, obviously.
What better way for Christians to celebrate stealing the Jews' holy scripture, declaring much of it void, and then boldly claiming that your group is the one who really understands what those books mean than blessing some non-kosher food?
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RE: Pennsylvania Church asks couples to bring in their AR-15's so they can bless the guns
February 23, 2018 at 11:06 pm
(February 23, 2018 at 3:38 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I'm all for dowsing a bunch of AR-15s in water. Submerge them, and say a nice long prayer.
I would much rather have a couple of AA-12s than a couple of AR-15s = https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/searc...tion=click
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