Six Alabama churches set on fire...arson. I hate when people do this.

[cantstandbush]

It is so uncivilized. I would feel the same if it were temples, mosques, or synagogues. Why must people be so heartless and insensitive?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5591819,00.html

[hobbit709]

1. Personally I'm against it

but if some of the loud-mouth churches should get whomped by "An Act Of God" I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. Unfortunately the idiots that do stuff like this never try to burn down Falwell's church.

[cantstandbush]

7. I think most of the churches were predominately white congregations but

I could be wrong. In any case, no matter the congregation makeup, it is a disgrace to this nation that those among us would still be doing this. I don't agree with Falwell on most issues, but I don't think it is ok to burn down his church.

[formernaderite]

11. one of the churches was reportedly a black congregation

You know...it sounds like bored teenagers to me. Unless the southern baptists have some group after them.

[Maddy McCall]

17. Today's Southern Baptists don't arson church.

They may do a lot with which we don't agree, but burning churches is not one of their tenets.

You're probably right--bored teens with a racist streak.

[formernaderite]

20. not what I was saying...only one of the churches was black

they were all southern baptist....so I don't think the teens were racists...just bored.

[cantstandbush]

27. Remember how rapidly the RW came out including Bush and spoke about

Terry Schiavo. Haven't heard anything from Bush on matters like these.

[Maddy McCall]

15. Where did you get that info?

I believe that they are black, or either majority-black interracial.

[Dhalgren]

21. The article said the some of the churches were white and some

were black...

[hobbit709]

22. I didn't mean someone should

I want a bolt of lighning to do it.

[malaise]

2. The silence is also deafening

This is Bushco's environment on intolerance.

[Skidmore]

8. I hope some Dems speak out on this during session in the

house and senate. Right on the heels of the Alito confirmation. We know for sure where we are headed now.

[malaise]

10. These are very serious times

People better wake up.

[Igel]

16. Intolerane of Christians in general, or

just (mostly) Baptists? And if * spoke up about intolerance shown to Xians in the US, he'd be laughed off the stage.

"... Ingram said the fires late Thursday and early Friday destroyed both the churches of predominantly black congregations and predominantly white congregations."

The best you get out of it is either they screwed up (and we suppose facts that aren't in evidence for the sake of supporting the narrative we already believe), that it was just random, or that it was against Christians?

Easier to claim anti-Xian violence than anti-black, on the face of it. But I don't see a point in arguing for either; events happened, there are presumably facts to be unearthed that would either falsify or support any argument I bother to make now. I can wait.

[BR_Parkway]

3. What is Pat Robertson gonna blame this one on? Shame about

their churches, interestingly enough that it was both predominently black or predominently white congregations, the headline made me wonder if it were a racial thing.

[Skidmore]

4. The KKK must be feeling pretty empowered now.

[movonne]

14. I can't believe that the KKK would take in white churches, unless of

course it is iberal churches..

[Syncronaut Seven]

5. It's about the terror. My guess?

Out of towners who screwed up a job intended for black churches.

Neo-cons spreading terror.

Hate groups tend to be proud of their work and brag.

Lets see who claims responsibility.

[stepnw1f]

6. Guess Who Did It

or paid to do it? Just guess....

[Cults4Bush]

9. My first thought as well. Its almost MIHOPish aint it?

Theses types would do just about anything to bring about a civil war with those not like them.

[redqueen]

24. Same thing I thought... n/t

[movonne]

12. It could be people that is pissed off about all this religion taking

over our country.

[seabeyond]

13. i could easily see a "good christian" so angry at religion that they

are not doing enough to take back america....... in puritan way, go for his own, and burn down churches. i would not be surprised if it is a bible quotely hear the wrath of god' er, who burned down the churches. god told him to.

gays women liberals...... nahhhhhh not so much

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[Skidmore]

19. A "good" christian would not do something like this.

It is not "christlike". No, this is more sinister. It is a message to a particular community, and not the Christian one. I can see a RWnut doing this because the heart and the political sense of the black community is the church.

[Dhalgren]

18. Looks like it time to go out and lynch some atheists! We can't let

these godless heathens run around and burn our churches and rape our daughters! What? No daughters raped? Well, can the raping for our daughters by these godless atheists be far behind? We have to stop these godless arsonists/rapists now before this spreads! Get the ropes! We have to stop these atheist/gay/rapists from killing more Christians! I am being sarcastic, but I am also afraid that this is how these events are going to be used; it's a smaller version of the Reichstags fire and 9/11. Everything changed once they started burning our churches...

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

23. Did anyone consider... COMPETITION?

You can't throw a rock in Alabama without hitting a church.

It's a question of money, people. More and more churches springing up daily around here and that means the market share of lemmings is getting smaller.

I think it was competition.

[NaturalHigh]

25. Whoever did it is a bastard.

I would have no problem with whoever did this spending the rest of their lives in prison.

[johnfunk]

26. Hatred of Christians, Muslims, Jews and Atheists is anti-American

I hope the Democrats in Congress in particular start pushing that message.

[johnfunk]

28. Postscript