{"id":6104,"date":"2009-06-04T13:19:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T17:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=6104"},"modified":"2012-09-28T20:14:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T00:14:40","slug":"guns-for-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/6104\/guns-for-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns for Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It&#8217;s called an Open Carry Church Service and not only does the Valley Station Road Church want you to carry your gun to church, they&#8217;ll give you an opportunity to win a handgun and listen to operators of gun stores and firing ranges while enjoying patriotic music. A red font resembling splattered blood is used on a promo poster, but it&#8217;s not meant to glorify bloodshed. The main impetus? Fear Obama will restrict guns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/Story_not_found\">Valley Station Church to Hold Gun Service<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love it that they insist the red bloodshed font is just &#8220;a font that somebody developed&#8221;, nothing more.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking at their website right now. It states the purpose for their church is growth in grace and &#8220;empowering people for service&#8221;. Their goals for 2009 include Ministry Outside the Box and Creating a Culture. The sermon available for download is &#8220;Greater Love&#8221; as in, &#8220;Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends&#8221;. In the news article the pastor states, &#8220;Not every church is pacifistic,&#8221; so I guess this greater love thing is down the order of &#8220;Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends in a glorious gun battle blaze of glory&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Now, I think I&#8217;m going to watch something intentionally ironic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s called an Open Carry Church Service and not only does the Valley Station Road Church want you to carry your gun to church, they&#8217;ll give you an opportunity to win a handgun and listen to operators of gun stores and firing ranges while enjoying patriotic music. A red font resembling splattered blood is used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[383,426],"class_list":["post-6104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-stories","tag-religion-2","tag-social-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}