My point exactly, if you want to destroy it then destroy it. Why waste church funds to buy raffle tickets to win said firearm then give it to someone for "safekeeping". I agree, the whole thing is suspicioussugar land dave wrote:I guess my brain leans a little too much towards the suspicious side when someone uses other peoples money to overpay for something while declaring it will be destroyed and then transfering said item to a "friend" for "safekeeping". Was any money paid to the winner by the friend for the privilige of "safekeeping"?
That this might be a preacher of "the word" performing such a dubious act is ghastly to me.
Maybe melt down whatever type of metal that was used to make the firearm and use the melted form for paint? Honestly, either way it seems like a lot of work to prove a point. Only reason I could see the congregation ok with this act is if they told him to do so, other than that I would not be happy about my pastor doing that kind of thing.allisji wrote:He claims that he intends to destroy it; he also says that he wants to turn it into one or several pieces of artwork. I am curious how he plans to destroy it into artwork. I guess that the guy wants a crumpled up gun to hand above his mantle. Knowing as much as I know about art (not much) and Portland, OR (not much) I'm guessing that he will probably be able to recoup the $3000 in art sales.
