Fire number 10 is ablaze in Alabama church

[Wheezy]

Just heard on CNN. Fully engulfed. Will post a link when one appears.


Edit: I have a DVR, so I rewound to get:

Lamar County
Beaverton Alabama
Beaverton Free Will Baptist Church

[Sydnie]

1. Damn it! Is this one baptist too? n/t

[Wheezy]

3. I will find out...and also what city. No news yet.

[MelissaB]

2. What city? I don't have control of the remote.

[Wheezy]

4. Beaverton Free Will Baptist Church in Beaverton AL

Lamar County
Beaverton Alabama
Beaverton Free Will Baptist Church

[Sydnie]

5. What do they have against the baptists?

I am not really up on the new environmental issues recently supported by some evangelicals, but could it have something to do with it? :shrug:

[MelissaB]

6. Thanks so much.

:hi:

[Emit]

7. Question?

I haven't had a chance to follow these church burnings -- do any of you know here who is doing these fires? Has it been reported who is responsible or who is suspected? I'll find some news, too, but since the topic is up, any insight from those at DU who are more knowledgable on the topic is much appreciated.

[annabanana]

13. I keep saying this.. but no one seems to think it's a possibility!

It really could be THESE guys..
Or some of his followers.... They have SAID AS MUCH!!

An Army of radical Christian Reconstructionists is preparing a campaign to convert conservative fundamentalist churches.
By David Holthouse

Mark Rushdoony

Draped in a stark black suit with a shiny gold cross pinned to its lapel, Mark Rushdoony peered down from the pulpit through glasses tinted the color of hellfire.
"We are authorized by God to challenge all that is not godly!" Rushdoony thundered. "God is angry with the wicked every day, and the sins of the wicked deserve the infliction of God's wrath in this life as well as the life hereafter!"

Rushdoony was the keynote preacher at a symposium held in September at the Chalcedon Presbyterian Church in Cumming, Ga., to observe the 40th anniversary of the Chalcedon Foundation, the ultra-fundamentalist Christian ministry founded in California by Rushdoony's late father, R.J. Rushdoony. The elder Rushdoony was a racist and Holocaust denier who took his group's name from a medieval council of bishops that proclaimed the subservience of all nations and governments to God.

The Chalcedon Foundation has since become the fountainhead for Christian Reconstructionism, an obscure but growing branch of Christian fundamentalism whose adherents believe the world should be "reconstructed" so that everyone in it lives under strict Old Testament moral codes imposed by local theocracies.


More: http://splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=...

[Wheezy]

27. OMFG!

Isn't the substance of CHRISTianity, Christ?

These people thrive on evil and hardship. Jesus supposedly changed things...but they want the old, angry God? What.Ever.

[DemInDistress]

8. my guess..bush crime family arsonists trying to advance strife

and chaos in the world and that includes the Muslim cartoons. BTW I heard the creator of those toons is a bush supporter or just loves the bush family or something like that...a conservative.. I could be wrong, maybe

[goforit]

21. I've always believed that Bush and the clan were in bed together.

This is confirming it.

[FreedomAngel82]

24. Really? Where did you hear that one?

That's new to me. Interesting.

[DemInDistress]

29. the Dutch guy who created that cartoon is friends of the bush's or

is a supporter of the bush's or is a conservative who supports the bush's..really no joke. When I come across the story I'll post it..or send it to you freedom..BTW your cool I've seen you around DU and like your posts..

:toast: :hi: :thumbsup:

[SpiralHawk]

9. Agents Provocatuers

'nuf said.

Occult Dominionist Skull & Boner Black Ops Krewe & Cabal Crapola, I would bet a sack of doughnuts on it.

[teryang]

12. Good bet n/t

[Dunvegan]

10. Waiting to see if this is pinned in whatever fashion on liberal arsonists

That would be conter-intutive...but it would certainly harden and inflame the position of Southern Baptists.

Happy to see the FBI is on the job. :sarcasm:

Well, you can't blame them...they don't have enough manpower to stake out Alabama churches due to running down ILLEGAL WIRETAPPING red-herrings.

Arrrrhgh.

[Wheezy]

11. Still no link, and I've searched everywhere for it...

I've got to head out for a bit, but if anybody sees something, can you post it here please? All the Saturday pre-taped boring shows are on now on all news channels, it seems.

[Beelzebud]

14. God must really be pissed off.

[goforit]

22. like Katrina?........And Bush hasn't said one damn word about this!!

[Sydnie]

15. Link here

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/11/church.fires/index.html

Another Baptist church in Alabama was in flames Saturday night, becoming the 10th house of worship burned in recent weeks, police said.

Firefighters from several cities were helping to fight the blaze Saturday evening in Beaverton, a town of 200 people about 90 miles northwest of Birmingham

A Lamar County Sheriff's Department dispatcher said police are still trying to determine what caused the fire at the Beaverton Freewill Baptist Church in northwest Alabama.

More at link

[Wheezy]

25. Thank you dear.

You are so on the ball. I notice it often.

And it's too late now to edit my OP, darn it.

You rock.

[CatholicEdHead]

16. What is the ethnic makeup of the church?

[Sydnie]

17. The article doesn't say what it is for this church. n/t

[LizW]

18. This is nuts!

Could this possibly be the same person/people? This one is way north and west from the others, although it is near a major highway running out of Birmingham.

[DanCa]

19. Well what's the point of going to church when you can torch one?

Damn it to hell. Bush's base will burn down a church but wont fight in a war. Hell I am not afraid of Alqaeda I am afraid of El'Cracker.

[goforit]

20. This is an absolute travesty!!!!.............Stop these KKK folks!!!

[FreedomAngel82]

23. Oh gosh

:( I wonder why all of this is happening. Do they have any clues yet?

[electron_blue]

26. The cynic in me still thinks the Bushies are behind this, try to ignite

a civil war here, just to have an excuse to clamp down with martial law.

[theHandpuppet]

28. Take a look at this map from the SPLC

Can anyone tell me if any of these hate groups are anywhere near the churches being torched?

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp?S=AL&m=3