Warning came, no one cared. Earth was shakin', we stood and stared. When it came no one was spared. Still I hear "Burn!"
Posted on 11/25/2014 4:51:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Missouri church where Michael Brown's father was baptized over the weekend was torched Monday night — but the pastor does not think the arson was part of the fiery violence that erupted elsewhere in the community.
The Rev. Carlton Lee told NBC News that he believes Flood Christian Church was targeted because he has repeatedly called for the arrest of Officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot the unarmed teen but was not indicted by a grand jury.
"I'm very vocal in regards to the Michael Brown case," said Lee, who has participated in rallies and press conferences with Michael Brown Sr.
The church went up in flames around the same time about a dozen other buildings were set ablaze in Ferguson by protesters angered by the grand jury's decision, but it's on a remote section of West Florissant Avenue where other structures were unscathed.
"The police called me and told me the church was on fire," Lee said. "I was in complete disbelief. I didn't think anyone would set a church on fire.
"I feel like one of my children has died. I put my blood, my sweat, my tears into this church, getting this church built from the ground up. To see that it was taken down in a few minutes is really heartbreaking."
He said he told Michael Brown Sr. about the extensive damage on Tuesday afternoon. "He was just devastated again," he said.
The pastor said he doubted the same people who were raging on the other end of West Florissant had burned his church. Instead, he said, he suspected white supremacists who wanted to punish him for his support of the Brown family, who had just been baptized there.
"Sunday, we do the baptism, Monday, the church is one fire. It just doesn't add up,"
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Warning came, no one cared. Earth was shakin', we stood and stared. When it came no one was spared. Still I hear "Burn!"
the town they deserve
What they don’t understand is that the white people who champion their “cause” are not very big fans of religion.
Smoke on the water, Fire in the sky.
War is hell.
Elect republicans, and black churches will burn!
It will be democrats that did the burning, though.
i truly hope it was a learning experience for those businesses and they take their insurance money and go far far away...
Anarchists are gonna smash the establishment.
It’s what they do.
Yep. That’s it. White supremecists rode in to town where they blended in with the locals and burned your church. None of the locals that were burning and looting the stores had anything to do with it...
Nelson Muntz could not be reached for comment.
The pastor said Amerikka’s fascists AKA conservatives burned down his church.
He’s in deep denial.
Oh, Democrat on Democrat hate.
Is that what they call Republicans in the black community these days?
LOL! yup, that one too...
There are a lot more of us, and we have guns.
The Occupy Anarchists are the ones I’m talking about. Their goal is to smash the patriarchy. The race war is just their smokescreen (and patsies).
They strike soft targets (like Christian churches, regardless of color of congregation or denomination).
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