No guns in church! Week Two

Not for attribution

St. Edmund Echoes went into reminder mode on Sunday Feb. 2, moving from last week’s announcement. The reminder is unsigned but apparently comes out of the parish’s Peace and Justice Committee, speaking of “our goal to reduce gun violence” etc. (Thank God not to end it, which would be utopian.)

Again the message: “We propose” posting of church doors with the state-approved no-guns alert, and “We seek prayerful consideration” of same, apparently by non-members of their committee, they having already done this in their monthly vigils for the past year.

The issue would be what comports best with “our beliefs,” the Bible, “Catholic traditions” [sic], and “our commitment to love” each other.

Happily there is nothing in it of sheeps-and-goats exclusion of law officers and the like from “the body of the Prince of peace.”

Neither is there anything to counter charges of imprudence in posting a sign that assures…

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5 thoughts on “No guns in church! Week Two

  1. Yeah, I hate it when a gunman shoots up the church at Mass. Thank goodness, someone thought to put up a sign. While we’re at it, why not put up some ‘no condoms’ signs and ‘no pornograpy signs’?

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  2. Clever, George, thanks. Isn’t it just like a liberal to pass a law and/or post a sign and think that it will change human nature?

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    1. Yes, I recall fondly William Buckley’s comment that liberals are driven by “hurdling irrationality.” They are not happy unless they are chronically harassing, agitating and tormenting us. They seem to do it for its own sake, irrespective on the cause or issue. If it isn’t guns, it’s peanut butter, or somehting else. Surely, they must be afflicted with somekind of mental disorder.

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