Thursday, June 02, 2005

It's okay, we only use grape juice...

From Metro Times Detroit:
"Tom Hendrickson, director of the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police, says the idea of mixing guns with religion and liquor doesn't make his day. 'Law enforcement is of the opinion that these are places where people shouldn't be armed.'"
As pointed out by Zendo Deb at TFS Magnum, someone who is being stalked could be easily found at a worship service, because such services are set to a specific schedule. Even if someone changed to a different congregation (not always possible in some smaller towns), they probably wouldn't change actual churches. Eventually, the stalker could find them.

Forgive me if I sound paranoid, but to me, churches make prime terrorism targets. Where else can some anti-Christian lunatics find large gatherings of Christians in one place at one time? A coordinated effort of several terrorists hitting several large congregations all on a Sunday morning could end up with lots of dead Christians all on one day. And let's face it, non-Christians as well have regular worship services with publicly available schedules. It could apply to anyone. I mention Christians only because it seems to me that they (we) would be the most likely target.

No, it wouldn't make much tactical sense. But when has that meant anything to terrorists? I think such an attack would create a lot of terror.

In Texas, it is legal to carry inside a place of worship unless specifically prohibited (which includes both oral and/or written notice). Written notice means posting the 30.06 Sign so that it is "displayed in a conspicuous manner clearly visible to the public." I get around a lot on the mean streets of San Antonio, and I can tell you that I have never seen a single place of worship that has this sign posted.

I also know specifically of a couple of places where an armed and violent intruder would probably meet God very quickly.

Okay, so the title of this post may be an obscure joke. Most Protestant places that I know of don't use wine for communion. They (we) just non-alcoholic grape juice. So there's no worry about church-goers getting smashed and shooting up the building. Well, I didn't say it was a good joke.

UPDATE (7:45 PM): Iranian Nabbed Smuggling People Across the Border at the Immigration Blog. Maybe I'm not just paranoid, after all.

3 comments:

  1. Liquor? Does he think that there are churches that serve double shots of Jack Daniels for Communion? He sounds pretty ignorant to me.

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  2. The Bible says we shouldn't drink alcoholic wine. The main misconception in Christianity is that the word "yayin" in ancient Hebrew meant wine, which was the juice of grapes, usually not fermented. Until the late 1800s, that's what wine primarily meant. And besides, you should check out Proverbs 20.

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  3. You'll have to quote me chapter and verse as to where it says we shouldn't drink alcoholic wine. I've never read that.

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