AR-15s have gotten a bad rap lately due to their popularity among mass shooters, including the shooter in the recent Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas where a gunman killed 19 children and two adults.
So Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is standing up for the semi-automatic weapon’s honor: she claims that Jesus only died because he didn’t have enough of them, effectively victim-blaming the Messiah.
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“The little Twitter trolls, they like to say, ‘Ah Jesus didn’t need an AR-15! How many AR-15s do you think Jesus woulda had?'” Boebert said at the Charis Christian Center in Colorado Springs this past Saturday during their Family Camp Meeting event.
“Well, he didn’t have enough to keep his government from killing him, so…” she joked. The crowd laughed.
Lauren Boebert claims Jesus “didn’t have enough [AR-15s] to keep his government from killing him.” pic.twitter.com/dTC9O7ZFDz — PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) June 14, 2022
Boebert owns a gun-themed restaurant called Shooters where the servers pack heat.
She rose to some national attention on the right in 2019 by confronting then-Democratic presidential primary candidate Beto O’Rourke about his proposed buy-back program for AR-15s. She has made gun ownership a central issue for her political campaigns.
So it was no surprise that she brought up guns and specifically AR-15s multiple times in her speech at the Christian event.
Then she prayed for the death of President Joe Biden.
“I do want you to know I pray for our president,” Boebert said. “Psalm 109:8 says, ‘May his days be few and another take his office.'”
valgrind_error on June 15th, 2022 at 13:38 UTC »
These people are everything they erroneously fear American Muslims to be. I’m surprised they haven’t attempted to deflect by saying that this was actually Omar or Tlaib praying for Allah to strike down Kavanaugh.
No group does more to discredit Christianity in the eyes of the world than the Christian Right. They make Jesus at best look and sound like a fucking chump and at worst a psychopath. Which is a shame, because he had some good ideas. This is why taking the Lord’s name in vain is a sin. It’s not about saying “Goddamnit” when the Packers humiliate the Bears for the 80th goddamn time in a row. It’s about inserting your own moronic worldviews into the mouth of God and making everyone think your God is a fucking moron.
steve-eldridge on June 15th, 2022 at 13:37 UTC »
”He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.“ - Matthew 27:42
Welcome Lauren to the Philistines, you belong in their company.
CornFedIABoy on June 15th, 2022 at 13:28 UTC »
So how can a Christian not perceive the necessity, even the inevitability, of the Crucifixion as a foundational event for their faith?