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The Devil Got Executed at VBS. So Did the Entire Point.

On staging mock firing squads for children in the name of a man Rome executed...

Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky staged a simulated firing-squad execution during Vacation Bible School, with children chanting "take him out, blow him up" as men in tactical gear "killed" a figure representing the devil. The pastor, Dewayne Walker, defended it as a 32-year tradition symbolizing spiritual warfare. This video asks a basic question: what does it mean for a movement built around an executed Messiah to stage executions as children's entertainment?

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