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Did a Church that Embraces LGBTQ+ People Burn Down After a Lightning Strike?
https://www.msn.com ^ | June 4 2023 | unk

Posted on 06/07/2023 8:14:13 PM PDT by Beowulf9

Amassive six-alarm fire ravaged a 160-year-old Massachusetts church, a blaze that the interim pastor believes may have been started by a lightning strike.

An automated alarm brought firefighters to the First Congregational United Church on Main Street around 3 p.m. Friday.

Sign up for our Newsletters Firefighters did not see any fire or smoke when they first arrived at the church, but when they went inside, they discovered smoke inside the steeple. The flames spread quickly from there and grew in intensity.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: church; fire; lgbtq; lightning; ma; massachusetts
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To: lightman
ZOTTED!

More please!

21 posted on 06/08/2023 3:47:33 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: Beowulf9

Hhmmmmmm .... Sodom & Gomorrah???


22 posted on 06/08/2023 4:05:37 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: Beowulf9

Every once in a while, God uses the “Smite” key.


23 posted on 06/08/2023 4:09:51 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (“Who is John Galt?”)
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To: Beowulf9

The First Congregational Church? I grew up in the Congregational Church, those buildings are beautiful buildings (the traditional white steepled building you see on New England’s town greens), but inside they are ugly.


24 posted on 06/08/2023 4:32:17 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: mythenjoseph
All you have to do is change the state from Mass-hole- achuets to Kalifornication and I feel the same way, with the same viewpoint.
25 posted on 06/08/2023 5:46:29 AM PDT by glaseatr (Father of a Marine, Uncle of SGT Adam Estep. A Co. 2/5 Cav. KIA Thurs April 29, 2004 Baghdad Iraq)
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To: Redleg Duke
Every once in a while, God uses the “Smite” key.


26 posted on 06/08/2023 5:56:51 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." - Kahlil Gibran)
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To: lightman

I will never forget it


27 posted on 06/08/2023 5:57:11 AM PDT by Mom MD ( )
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To: lightman

Oh, I remember that!!!! The tornado came out of nowhere, too!!!!


28 posted on 06/08/2023 10:12:33 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Congregational Churches joined the United Church of Christ, which is different from the Church of Christ.


29 posted on 06/08/2023 5:50:14 PM PDT by PhilCollins
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To: PhilCollins

That’s what I meant. Didn’t realize there was a specific denom using that appellation.


30 posted on 06/08/2023 8:31:28 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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