Palin Attended Church Event With Samurai Sword Ceremony

[Are_grits_groceries]

On June 7th, 2008 Sarah Palin interrupted her schedule of state business and spent Alaska state taxpayer money to fly down from Juneau to the Mat-Su Valley where she attended on June 8th two religious events dominated by the Wasilla Assembly of God, which is demonstrably Palin's key Alaska church.

At the end of one those events, young adults in a church Palin had attended for over two decades were presented with Samurai swords. "Warriors of old were considered undressed if they were without their sword... Swords were worn in service to the lord of the realm. Some of the most renounced swordsmen were the Samurai," intoned a church member officiating the sword ceremony, who then quoted Psalms 149 verses 6-9:

"May the praise of God be in their mouths and a double edged sword in their hands to inflict vengeance on the nations, and punishment on the peoples, and to bind their kings with fetters, their nobles with shackles of iron, and to carry out the sentence written against them."

In the lead up to the November 4th, 2008 presidential election there was an almost total failure, of not only mainstream but also alternative media and even bloggers, to inform the American voting public about the very specific and militant nature of the Christian religious tendency Sarah Palin was demonstrably heavily linked to.
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Anyone who did so would have noticed, later on in the ceremony, 1) a speaker addressing Palin from the stage, indicating she was still in the audience and, 2) shortly after, a ceremony in which male 3-year Masters Commission students were presented with Samurai swords, in a ceremony which mentioned the Samurai code of honor. Special note was made of the specific uses of the Samurai swords gifted to the students, such as cutting down opponents from horseback, ground-level combat, and in very close combat -- as an auxiliary blade to be plucked out for a sudden, killing blow. (Video st site)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/palin-attended-church-eve_b_237740.html

Damn! I missed the Samurai swords in the Bible too. I had to go to church until I went to college, and I swear I missed a whole lot of lessons that I have been hearing now.

[newscott]

1. But isn't a Samurai sword technically a single-edged sword?

[Orsino]

4. Shh.

It's symbolic, anyway. They'd really like to be wearing guns.

[katanalori]

5. yes, it is single-edged.

see my screen name. I should know.

[juno jones]

2. "Some of the most renounced swordsmen were the Samurai..."

1) WTF? English your second language? (on edit, not the OP, the quote...)

2) BTW, the samurai sword is a single-edge. Gods, they even fail at symbolism. They should be handing out hand-and-a-half bastard broadswords if they really want to partake of 'double-edged' nonsense.

3) Samurai ain't "Christian".

[gratuitous]

6. No, see . . .

When the Buddhist monks were meditating, before they went into battle, they'd all strap on their samurai swords. "Every man for himself," they'd chant, preparing for the swift, painful death of their enemies.

It's all in the Gospel According to Otto.

[juno jones]

18. I remember Otto

They portrayed him very accurately in 'Life of Brian. So accurately, in fact, they had to cut his big musical number...:evilgrin: I think those were double bladed swords his followers had....

[Ikonoklast]

3. The reference is from the little-read Book Of Isamu-San.

Everyone that ever read it understands how Isamu slew the Pharaoh's charioteers with his sword blessed by Yahweh, and freed the Hebrews from slavery.

That Moses jerk took all the credit. Better PR people.

[Posteritatis]

8. Why am I picturing the Gospel of Musashi? (nt)

[Ikonoklast]

10. Meh.

Another guy with good PR.

He was actually a rice farmer that wrote from his Mom's basement.

"A Book Of Five Rings" was fanboi stuff. Parchment warrior.

[TheMightyFavog]

7. Bonkuras

The whole lot of them. Bonkuras.

[TahitiNut]

9. Hopefully, they'll follow up with seppuku ceremonies.

:grr:

[Stevenmarc]

12. ROFL

[Forkboy]

11. And the disciples were the Magnificent Twelve.

[me b zola]

13. Will her witch doctor be there too?

Also.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turds

[Blue_In_AK]

15. You know, of course,

that she has recently twittered that with the governorship behind her, she will now be free to throw that carefully crafted political correctness she's been so concerned about to the wind. Hahahahahahaha. :rofl: :rofl:

[spin]

16. Authentic Samurai swords tend to be expensive...

for example:

Praying Mantis
SH-2359 $ 1699.99 Sale 1444.99

Bainite is a structure of high-carbon steel that combines great strength with excellent flexibility and shock absorption characteristics. It has been known as an exemplary Katana blade component for a number of years but its use has been restricted to a few top-class master smiths, due to the difficulties involved in performing the exacting heat treatment procedures necessary for the production of a Bainite blade body in combination with the very hard Martensite Yakiba (edge section) required for Katana blades.
http://www.mantisswords.com/

I wonder if they give out the cheap ones which are basically useless.

[Yunomi]

17. Oh, you betcha! (nt)