'Come to church, win a gun': Pastor John Koletas organises giveaway at church service

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A Baptist Church is planning on giving away an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle to one church-goer at an upcoming service, to "support" the gun owners and hunters in the congregation.

New York Pastor John Koletas has attempted to justify his bizarre giveaway by arguing that America “was built with the King James Bible and the gun" in a letter to his congregation.

The Grace Baptist Church has published a flier on their website promoting their 23 March service where one attendee will be announced as the winner of the rifle.

The question: “Does the Bible defend my right to keep and bear arms?" is emblazoned across the flier.

The only entry requirement for the giveaway is actually attending church, says Pastor Koletas, who told The Times Union: "I'm just trying to be a blessing and a help to the gun owners and the hunters and give away a free AR-15. It's the right thing to do.”

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[Darnell 8,479]

Excellent news ! Kudos for finding it on a major UK news website !

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The comments are great:

This must be an absolutely incredible religion with deep spiritual satisfaction and obvious benefits to all mankind if the only way you can get people through the door is to offer free guns, although I suspect that Jesus would have preferred to give out free food and not necessarily give you this food as a way of blackmailing you to follow him. Idiots, even if the bible did say it should be done common sense should tell you that it is a stupid idea.