Paintballin' for Jesus!

[zakur]

Story (http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?SearchID=73158248525454&Avis=TO&Dato=20031227&Kategori=NEWS10&Lopenr=112270079&Ref=AR) Another foe is vanquished by Team Fireproof, a six-person paintball squad from Ohio. Their mission? "To celebrate the greatness of God through righteous behavior on and off the field."

Christian paintball?

Can blasting people with paint-filled projectiles be considered a Christian activity? Team Fireproof thinks so.

Despite hearing some skeptical comments, group members are convinced that paintball is not just fun and games, but a unique opportunity to spread the gospel.

"The basic idea is getting Christians on the paintball field to be witnesses to other players," Mr. Magrum said.

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Being macho is one thing, but CPPA has its guidelines, including no "cursing or vulgar gestures" and avoiding "paintball products named after dark religions or the devil."I wonder if they're allowed to use this product (http://www.paintball-discounters.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st_prod.html?p_prodid=1263&p_catid=60).

[zakur]

Someone should set up a match between "Team Fireproof" and this team (http://www.btinternet.com/~paul_mugleston/about.htm). :D

[Ralph]

Yeah.....like a group of people who's greatest desire in life is to see some giant pissed off jesus come floating down---tear the heads off a few billion people--and send their souls to burn forever are going to be offended by a few paintball splats............

[Yahweh]

Despite hearing some skeptical comments, group members are convinced that paintball is not just fun and games, but a unique opportunity to spread the gospel.

"The basic idea is getting Christians on the paintball field to be witnesses to other players," Mr. Magrum said.
Oh boy, cant wait for the video game to come out...

[T'ai Chi]

Zakur,


... and... ?

[Bikewer]

When I was more heavily involved in martial arts, I was rather amazed at the growing "Christian Martial Arts" scene.

The whole notion of taking a physical discipline that was steeped in Zen Bhuddism and trying to make it "Christian" seemed more than a bit odd.

Then there's that whole "turn the other cheek" thing....

Turn the other cheek so you can set em' up for a spinning back kick?

[c4ts]

Sigh... if only there were paintballs that make little skulls or pentagrams when they hit you. Now that would be cool, except that the Christians would figure out a way to put crosses on theirs and then the whole thing would turn into a holy war in their eyes. In the meantime, I'll just have to settle for aiming for the crotch with yellow or white paintballs. Never mind that aim doesn't matter in paintball, sometimes I get lucky.