NBC: 5 Southern Baptist churches in Alabama set afire. More to come...

MSNBC ^ | February 3, 2006

[precedence]

More to come....

[redgolum]

It is tin foil Friday you know!

Got a summary of how the DUers are connecting burning Christian churches to Bush?

[mnehring]

Good info in your 122. thanks

[freeperfromnj]

probably a religion of peace response to cartoon images of mohammad.

I would not entirely rule that out. Flashback:

Two Pakistan Churches Burned

Saturday, November 12, 2005

LAHORE , Pakistan — Hundreds of Muslims attacked and burned two churches in Pakistan on Saturday after reports that a Christian man had desecrated Islam's holy book. No one was injured in the blazes.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,175385,00.html

[commish]

Here is another map giving a better idea of where the burnings took place. Fairview is the locations in Chilton COunty. Centreville, Antioch and Lawley are to the NW alont HWY 82. Brierfield is directly north up by Ashby on Hwy 139.

As an aside the area I mentioned as Alabastan can be seen down in the lower left of the map around Marion.

[penelopesire]

Thanks for the update. This is really sad on so many levels. So many southern rural churches are really old and historic as well, not to mention the obvious tragedy of burning down a house of GOD! It really makes my heart sore.

[redgolum]

Those danged Lutherans up to trouble again?

Unless they stole our beer and brats, doubt it. :)

[mnehring]

So far just comments on how they 'must have gone against Bush doctrine'.. The DUers are being somewhat sane on this with a few exceptions.. One person suspects that the 'Mega Churches' were eliminating the competition...

[commish]

I would like to think it isn't, but as I have pointed out the area not too far to the Southwest of the burnings houses a large Nation of Islam population. SO it cannot be ruled out.

[redgolum]

One person suspects that the 'Mega Churches' were eliminating the competition...

Now that is kind of funny!

[mnehring]

NCevilDUer (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-03-06 10:33 AM Response to Reply #13
18. Those aren't real churches.
Real churches employ hundreds of people and fleece, uh, serve thousands.

I'm only half joking. I think the mega-churches see themselves as big business, and the best way to increase your customer base is to shut down the competition. You never hear about THEM being burned.



To be fair, most of the DUers right now are very civil about this.

[epow]

Anabaptism was another school of Protestant theology alongside Lutheranism, Zwinglianism,Calvinism, etc. -

True, but the primary issue that separated Anabaptists from other protestants of that period was their rejection of infant baptism.

The Anabaptist sect predated the Reformation era, and Anabaptists were often persecuted by the Catholic Church before the Reformation era and by both protestants and Catholics during and after that era. IIRC, at least one prominent protestant reformer in Switzerland sentenced a number of Anabaptists to be drowned in a nearby river during that time.

I think that most, or many, liturgical denominations still practice infant baptism, most evangelical/fundamentalist denominations and non-denominational churches don't.

[Blogger]

The Southern Baptist convention started over the fact that the Northern Baptists wouldn't allow a missionary from the South to go on the mission field because he owned slaves. We apologized for that a few years ago. But, still, most S.B.C. churches are white. National Baptists are mostly if not exclusively black.

[penelopesire]

glad you posted the map over here. Wonder which churches burned first, next last, etc.? If you hear anything about the sequence, let us know. It could tell us which way the arsonist's were traveling. I am sure the police are looking into that aspect as we speak, but will probably not report it.

[commish]

Local News here says that the Old New harmony Church in Fairview was the first one to be reported. So that tends to lead to a S to N movement. NOthing definative in the reports yet though.

[When_Penguins_Attack]

News feeds say some white and some black. As bad as the anti christian hatred is, there is a good thing to it. It is when the Church is hated that it becomes less and less like the proud, hostile, "we are your overlords" caricature and more like the humble and aggressively loving church that turned the 1st century world upside down.

If the church is respected and honored, then great. It is a sign -however weak- of respect for her Savior. If, on the other hand, the church is despised and reviled, and harrassed, then look out! God's people may in fact quit chasing money, status, and acceptance, and stop looking first and foremost to a decadent culture to guarantee their "rights"...... and cry out to Him. When that happens, a power gets unleashed that the world simply cannot explain or tolerate, although it is fascinated by it.

Either way, we win.

[Spunky]

"It's unclear if the church fires are connected."

Geeez! Just take a pencil draw a line between the dots and then you will see they are connected.

[wardaddy]

SBC churches are usually predominately white.

Is this a black church burning?

if so that is likely some national baptist thing....and we know who was doing the burning in the last hysteria

[Gone GF]

Here's what I think.

The churches that were burned could be all black or all white or a mixture of black and white or some are all white and some are all black or there might even be some brown or yellow or any mixture of all of the above. Some of them might have even been a front for Muslims.

The fires could have all been accidental or set by black racists or white racists or Muslims or atheists or disgruntled Baptists or some loon with no agenda or a bunch of gays or drunk teenagers or some good old boys out for some fun or a mixture of all of those.

And I think the MSM will blow it out of proportion or ignore it or something in between.

Just a little speculation.

[cgk]

Fox News "confirmed" not long ago that the churches were predominately white congregations. Which explains why all the networks but Fox are no longer on the story.