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Rachel Maddow MSNBC
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I'm sure this will end well. This kind of thing always ends well.
MAGA Gun Church That Worships With AR-15s Buys Giant Property in Tennessee
Rod of Iron Ministries has been on a property-buying splurge and says it plans to build a training centre and "spiritual retreat."
vice.com
3:43 PM · Oct 12, 2021
Rachel Maddow MSNBC
@maddow
I'm sure this will end well. This kind of thing always ends well.
MAGA Gun Church That Worships With AR-15s Buys Giant Property in Tennessee
Rod of Iron Ministries has been on a property-buying splurge and says it plans to build a training centre and "spiritual retreat."
vice.com
3:43 PM · Oct 12, 2021
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avkdw/rod-of-iron-ministries-purchases-property-in-tennessee
The MAGA-loving religious sect that worships with AR-15s has purchased a 130-acre property on a mountain in eastern Tennessee to serve as a training center and holy ground for its devoted, gun-toting followers, VICE News has learned.
The latest property acquisition is more evidence that Pastor Hyung Jin Sean Moon, a fervent conspiracy theorist and son of an accused cult leader, is determined to expand his reach into the American Heartland.
Moons congregation, Rod of Iron Ministries, also known as The World Peace and Unification Sanctuary, is a gun-centric spinoff of the much larger Unification Church, founded by his late father, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, a self-proclaimed messiah and businessman whose followers were famously known as Moonies. The younger Moon, who also goes by The Second King, split from the main church amid a dramatic falling-out with his mother about who, between the two of them, was the rightful heir to his fathers empire.
In 2017, Moon founded his church in Newfoundland, Pennsylvania, siphoning off hundreds of followers from the main congregation who were willing to make the seemingly radical leap of incorporating high-powered rifles into their spiritual life. He did this with the backing of his older brother, Kook-jin Justin Moon, the CEO of Kahr Arms, a gun manufacturing company headquartered nearby. In recent years, hes made headlines for recreating the mass wedding ceremonies that his fathers church was famous for, with the addition of AR-15s.
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MAGA Gun Church That Worships With AR-15s Buys Giant Property in Tennessee (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Oct 2021
OP
And here i thought the RW hated Asians...instead they worship them. When is Kim visiting? nt
joetheman
Oct 2021
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Gidney N Cloyd
(19,833 posts)1. And tax free.
Bluethroughu
(5,153 posts)2. Enough of the religious tax incentives. It's time to pay!
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)12. Tax the churches! nt
Throck
(2,520 posts)7. And vax exempt.
Hekate
(90,645 posts)3. Well that doesn't look batshit crazy or anything, does it?
Celerity
(43,326 posts)9. all the cool kids are doing it
Initech
(100,063 posts)4. What could possibly go wrong?
spanone
(135,823 posts)5. and Jesus Wept
aeromanKC
(3,322 posts)6. Tennessee already gave Jesus a dinosaur
now he gets an AR 15. Wahoo!!!
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)8. Are those Burger King crowns? Nt
lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)10. sort of
made from bullets according to Maddow.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)11. If they are gonna commit mass suicide
Do it to yourselves and no one else
joetheman
(1,450 posts)13. And here i thought the RW hated Asians...instead they worship them. When is Kim visiting? nt