Churches on Fire (Eastern NC)

[Smurvis]

I had some friends over, and one of them got a call about an hour ago. They were warned to not go anywhere.

Apparantly, over 50% of the traffic out right now is the police force. Three Baptist churches were set on fire, and another two churches believed to be set on fire. One of them was the church one of my friends went to, and one of the churches believed to be on fire was the one my dad went to.


If this is true... this is twisted. If it's not true... the guy who called my friend need to get the **** kicked out of him for lying.

[Caciss]

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God hates Baptists.

[Owl of Parliament]

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God cut a fart.

[Jamos]

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[Nixon]

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/14/chu....ap/index.html

I don't attend church anymore, but I think setting fire to any place of worship is pretty low.

[Syvarius]

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Found these:

http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/1136354/
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/01/14/church.fires.ap/
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/...urch-Fires.php

From the CNN article

GREENVILLE, North Carolina (AP) -- Police and sheriff's deputies rushed to check on churches early Sunday after fires broke out at two Baptist churches and a break-in was discovered at a third.

Authorities stopped short of saying the fires were arson.

But the state Bureau of Investigation, along with Greenville officials and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, planned to begin an investigation later Sunday morning.

"Anytime you have two fires like that in succession, it's certainly a suspicious fire," Fire Department Battalion Chief Sandy Harris said.

There were no immediate reports of injuries, and authorities said they found no signs of fires at any other church in Greenville, which is about 75 miles east of Raleigh.

Firefighters were called to The Memorial Baptist Church shortly after 11 p.m. and found smoke billowing from its educational wing. The blaze soon spread to the church's original structure.

Firefighters had largely contained the blaze by 2:30 a.m. but were still working to extinguish hot spots, Harris said.

About half of the church appeared to be destroyed, though Harris said the main sanctuary appeared undamaged. Firefighters were worried about the stability of the church's steeple, he said.

Dispatchers received a report of a fire at Unity Free Will Baptist Church, about a half-mile away from The Memorial, shortly before 11:30 p.m. Authorities said damage there was contained to a few rooms.

"Right now, I'm numb," said Jeff Manning, minister at Unity Free Will. "My head is spinning. We will have to figure out what to do, and at the same time, our heart goes out to the good folks at Memorial Baptist because theirs is a whole lot worse than ours."

Police were also investigating a break-in at Oakmont Baptist Church, located less than a quarter-mile from The Memorial, said police Cpl. Kip Gaskins. Witnesses told The Daily Reflector of Greenville the tires of three church vehicles at The Memorial were slashed.

"At this point we're still collecting evidence. However, we have all these churches set on fire minutes apart from each other, so you can take that for what it is worth," Gaskins said.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

The reaction kind of reminds me of the time I made a camp fire with my friend a few years back (Smurv you know him, the other syv). Only we didn't burn down anything.
I wonder if anyone remembers that.

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Edit - Nixon beat me to it.
Ah well, I'll leave this post as it is for the hell of it.

[Vonwert]

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That isn't far from me.

I wouldn't be suprised if it was some KKK members, or some stupid teenagers doing this.

[Drazus]

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But why a church?

[Arcaite]

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Possibly because its hard to find a group of people with less respect for something than some of the most intolerant atheists have for religion. I don't really believe in God myself, if anyone was wondering. Intolerance is aggravating... though possibly i should be more tolerant of it >_<;

a total lack of respect is very probably among the reasons.

[tamoki]

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I live in Greenville, I heard the sirens last night.

[Alex]

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The KKK! Atheists! Who do we blame first? I'm pretty sure it's terrorists.

No big loss, they should pave over the mess and put up a library or something.

[Jamos]

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I should have assumed you would have said something mean on the subject.

How about we just burn down a library and replace it with a church? Americans don't read any more, so no big loss.

[Drazus]

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That's the word I was looking for: intolerance.

Honestly, whether you're religious or not, you still need to show the same respect to those that are.

[Alex]

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I'm relieved nobody died, and nobody should have lit these places on fire in the manner that they did. We all know that. What's done is done, so why not replace the torched buildings with something more useful?

S'all I'm saying.

[Caciss]

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Church's are useful to a large amount of people, Smurtle.