And hosting wedding ceremonies that involve hundreds of couples at a sitting is obviously drawn from the playbook of the Unification Church which has spread worldwide. As religious celebrations go, a gun-friendly wedding is hardly more strange than the more well-known snake handling practices of the hundred or so Pentacostal, Holiness, and Charismatic Churches in the southeast US that claim a life every few years. For example, although the Southern Poverty Law Center denounces the Sanctuary Church as an " anti-LGBT cult," the church's homophobia puts them dead center of most other Evangelical churches. And although it may be tempting to write off the church as "crazy," I haven't heard of anything they do that would set them that far apart from other religious faiths in the US. I haven’t heard anything about a history of violence with members of its congregation. I haven’t read anything in the news about the Sanctuary Church that suggests pathological extremes of religious belief. The “rod of iron” allows not only strong men, but also women and the elderly to have the ability to protect themselves and others from such predators.” You and I are responsible to protect our families, communities and, ultimately, our nation.
Pathological fear of guns free#
Two citizens contacted the FBI with specific information about his threats to do a “school shooting,” but the FBI also did nothing.ĩ8% of mass shootings in the last 60 years have taken place in “Gun Free Zones.” The idea that passing such laws will protect our sons and daughters is a dangerous and delusional fantasy. The local authorities were contacted 39 times about the out-of-control and violent behavior of the shooter, but did nothing. We saw in the horrific shooting that took place in Parkland, Florida, the repeated failure of government institutions to protect the lives of 17 students, teachers and staff members. In the same way, each of us is called to use the power of the “rod of iron” not to harm or oppress as has been done in the satanic kingdoms of this world, but to protect God’s children. 2:27), but the true meaning of the Greek word, “poimano” means to “shepherd” or “protect.” The scripture tells us that God will shepherd His children with the rod of iron, guarding the flock not as a dictator, but as a loving father. …In the Book of Revelation, Christ speaks repeatedly of “ruling with a rod of iron” (Rev. Such blessed marriages are the building blocks of strong communities and the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. We seek His blessing on our marriages because we believe that He dwells most deeply in the love between husband and wife and between parents and children.
We do not worship the “rod of iron.” We worship God who created us in His image and desires to have a personal relationship with each one of us. “Contrary to what you have probably read, the Sanctuary Church in Newfoundland is not “blessing guns.” On February 28, several hundred couples will gather to (re)dedicate their marriages to each other and most importantly to God. This is evident when we read Reverend Hyung Jin Moon’s post to the Sanctuary Church’s Facebook page the day before the wedding ceremony: “The Second King” refers to Reverend Hyung Jin Moon. In the quotation above, “Cheon Il Guk” (translated as “the Nation of Cosmic Peace and Unity”) refers to the church’s ideal of a heaven on earth. After his father died in 2012, he was named successor, but fell into a power struggle with his mother and instead split from the Unification Church to form the Sanctuary Church in Newfoundland. Reverend Hyung Jin Moon is Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s youngest son. It's described as an offshoot of the Unification Church, which was founded by Reverend Sun Myung Moon in the 1970s (based upon claims of brainwashing and its mass wedding ceremonies involving thousands of members at a time, the Unification Church was popularly derided as a cult in the public eye and its members labeled “Moonies”). First of all, the Newfoundland Sanctuary Church is also known as The World Peace and Unification Sanctuary or Rod of Iron Ministries. But let’s look a little deeper in search of the real story behind the event.
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