Posted on 11/18/2020 7:15:23 PM PST by marshmallow
Denver Newsroom, Nov 18, 2020 / 03:40 pm MT (CNA).- Two church buildings— one Baptist, one Catholic— were damaged by fires in apparent arson attacks Sunday morning in Brewster, a town in central Washington.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church suffered some fire damage near the sanctuary from an incendiary device dropped through a broken window early Nov. 15. New Testament Baptist Church, located a block away, suffered more serious fire damage to its interior the same morning.
Investigators have deemed the fire at Sacred Heart to be intentional, police say. The police have not yet made the same pronouncement about the fire at the Baptist church, but the investigation is ongoing.
Father Pedro Bautista, Sacred Heart’s pastor, told CNA that most of Sacred Heart's parishioners are Hispanic, and that the community is "fearful" after the incident.
"This is just adding more stress to the lives of the people," he said.
Father Bautista said he noticed the fire when he came to open the church on Sunday morning. At that point, the local fire department was already battling the fire at the nearby Baptist church, which appears to have been set around 2 am, and was discovered around 5 am.
The fire damaged a chair and some carpet near the sanctuary at Sacred Heart. Father Bautista said the fire department and the police were surprised that the fire did not do more damage.
The fire at the Baptist church did not entirely destroy the building, but the damage to the interior was significant enough that the building may be beyond salvage, local media reported.
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Black metal bands acting up again.
In Brewster??? Apple town with one grocery store and a few restaurants. Lots of hard working folks there.
It’s things that I used to only hear about in Banana Republics.
Brewster is an agricultural town of 2400 on the Columbia River in north-central Washington state. Why these were torched, given the town and location, makes no sense.
Maybe because the perps are local, or maybe because the perps figured such an isolated place with negligible law enforcement presence and few if any security cameras would be easier targets and enable them to get away undiscovered.
They burned churches left and right during the French Revolution.
Democrats have a long history of church burning
“..Democrats have a long history of church burning...”
Yep, but we haven’t seen anything yet.
IF PedoJoe prevails and the senate flips, within 12-18 months they’ll burn every church in the USA down using hate crime legislation as the excuse. The only churches left alone and functioning will be the govt. sanctioned ones.
A prophecy that is only off by about 3 years.
(Miami 2017)
BURNIN CHURCHES UP IN HARLEM, LIKE IN THE SPANISH CIVILWAR. THE FLAMES WERE EVERYWHERE, BUT NO ONE REALLY CARED, IT ALWAYS BURNED UP THERE BEFORE
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They sent a carrier out from Norfolk
I watched the mighty skyline fall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBPbOjA_cWg
They turned our power down, drove us underground, but we went right on with the show.
They said the Queens could stay, blew the Bronx Away, and sank Manhattan out at sea.
Insurance scams.
One in a small town - maybe - but two seems unlikely.
Two churches? At the same time?
I don’t think so.
I meant to include you on the pings for post 10 on this thread but couldn’t recall the numbers in your screen name.
Tiny town, middle of nowhere. I’ve dirt biked around there.
I never knew what that song was about. I’m still not sure. Hey did he lose a lot of weight? I thought five or so years ago he looked much older and terrible.
That’s really him in 2017? He looks good
For some explanation read the comments on these
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/billy-joel/miami-2017-seen-the-lights-go-out-on-broadway
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/77961/
I recall it from my first major encounter with it over 30 years ago as being a song expressing a form of local patriotism for those of my fellow undergraduates who felt themselves to be in exile Far Above Cayuga’s Waters because they found Upstate to be another world.
Which it was, but they still hadn’t encountered that other world, as Ithaca is another universe— a chunk of downstate mixed in with people from other eastern urban centres dropped upon upstate like Dorothy’s House upon the wicked witch of the east.
BLL has an awesome pinglist—Ithaca is Evil.
Wow.. I didn’t know all that. Thanks
About Ithaca or about the song?
I like the song.
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