Paintball for Jesus

MARIPOSA -- This is a mountain town where there's a Bible verse painted over a pizza parlor door and a local politician keeps a cardboard cutout of John Wayne holding a Winchester rifle in his office as proof of fealty to the NRA.

But a proposal to bring "Paintball for Jesus" to public land has some people riled.

"I'm sorry, maybe I'm missing something in my upbringing as a Methodist, but Paintball for Jesus? God help us all. Seriously, this teaches bad habits of shooting each other," said Mariposa County Supervisor Brad Aborn, 71, the John Wayne fan who is a former Vietnam War Navy helicopter pilot....

...Church members have prayed over the issue and decided not to give up, despite initial resistance.
"It's just a matter of educating people about the world of paintball and our intentions," said Tomerlin, the youth leader.
In the proposal, New Life makes a point to say all other churches would be invited and included.
"So now we're going to have the Methodists shooting at the Catholics?" Aborn asked rhetorically. "What about the Presbyterians? There's not a Presbyterian church up here. How are the Presbyterians going to be represented in the paintball finals?"
Members of the church's youth group recently e-mailed supervisors, inviting them to a game of paintball so they could experience paintball personally.
"Good Lord," said Supervisor Dianne Fritz. "I'm 57 and fat. I'm not going to run around dodging paintballs."

What about the Lutherans? Don't they get to play too? Check out Paintball for...Jesus? for the complete article. Apparently there is a Christian Paintball Players Association you can join if this interests you. I wonder if there's a Paintball for Buddha Association...
What about Paintball for Radical Islamists?

Hat tip to wagga for this find.

In other news...

...Blogs are still reverberating, but Mr. McIntyre, Dr. Hansen and others familiar with the initial data revisions are clarifying what is, and is not, at issue.
One thing not in question, Mr. McIntyre and Dr. Hansen agree, is the merit of shifting away from energy choices that contribute heat-trapping greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
Mr. McIntyre said he feels “climate change is a serious issue.” His personal preference is to shift increasingly to nuclear power and away from coal and oil, the main source of heat-trapping carbon dioxide.
Mr. McIntyre and Dr. Hansen also agree that the NASA data glitch had no effect on the global temperature trend, nudging it by an insignificant thousandth of a degree.
Everyone appears also to agree that too much attention is paid to records, particularly given that the difference between 1934, 1998, and several other sets of years in the top 10 warmest list for the United States are so small as to be statistically meaningless...

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Now, I need to stop surfing the web in pile ignore mode and return to those damn boxes.