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Series of church fires [Darleen Click]

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A fire that engulfed a small, predominantly black church in Charlotte was set on purpose, local officials said Wednesday. Now they are trying to determine whether the act of arson was a hate crime.

“Shock. Disbelief,” co-Pastor Rhonda Kinsey told Time Warner Cable News. “You hear about it, but you never imagine you would have a fire at your church.”

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MACON, Ga. (AP) — A fire that damaged a predominantly black church in middle Georgia has been ruled arson, authorities say.

The fire was reported at God’s Power Church of Christ in Macon early Tuesday morning. Macon-Bibb County Fire Sgt. Ben Gleaton told local media outlets that investigators determined the fire was intentionally set but didn’t say what led to that conclusion.

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KNOXVILLE (WATE) – Knoxville officials are investigating a case of arson at a predominantly African-American church. Officials say someone set fire to bales of hay outside College Hill Seventh Day Adventist, 1837 Brandau Street, and also burned the church van.

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WARRENVILLE, SC (WFXG) – Massive flames tore through a Warrenville church early Friday morning.

“It happened so quick, it was just like a nightmare,” said Bobby Jones, pastor of Glover Grove Baptist Church. “That’s 33 years just gone down the drain.”

Or Hoax?

Investigate faster, please.

h/t Corduroyalist

16 Replies to “Series of church fires [Darleen Click]”

  1. sdferr says:
    June 29, 2015 at 9:29 am

    Shark Bite

  2. 11B40 says:
    June 29, 2015 at 10:14 am

    Greetings:

    I’m pretty sure that the last time this kind of hate crime hysteria was fanned, the facts didn’t play out the way our Progressive brothers and sisters and rulers wanted them to.

  3. Ernst Schreiber says:
    June 29, 2015 at 12:01 pm

    Darleen, you forgot option thre: pretext

  4. dicentra says:
    June 29, 2015 at 12:42 pm

    Anyone want to guess that rednecks are NOT responsible but rather people who want to start a race war?

    SOROS flunkies, IOW.

    Cannot put that past them.

    Also, this: http://theaxisofego.com/2015/06/27/what-was-lost-obergefell/

    t is impossible not to be impressed by what this activist-driven effort accomplished—I mean in real terms, not the unserious victory slogans of the campaign itself.

    In no particular order, it:

    1. Successfully and fundamentally transformed the definition of “marriage,” and did so in a way that portrayed efforts to preserve traditional marriage as the novelty, rather than as the millennia-old status quo.

    2. Successfully convinced a critical mass of the public that there is only one side in this debate, despite the fact that the side claiming the monopoly had only existed in any meaningful form for perhaps 20 years.

    3. Successfully convinced a critical mass of the public that race and sexual orientation are directly analogous.

    4. Successfully convinced a critical mass of the public (and jurists) that there is no possible argument against gay marriage—to the point where federal judges found that not permitting same-sex marriage is definitionally irrational, and had prominent left-leaning outlets calling the dissents simply “crazy.”

    5. Successfully branded opponents as simple “bigots” for daring to hold a different view on a live political issue, going so far as to take punitive action against those who did not adopt the “correct” viewpoint.

    6. Successfully portrayed the battle as, literally, love versus hate.

    7. Successfully accomplished all of the above in about a decade.

    My God, the magnitude of it is staggering.

    Also, “interior exile” is the new watchword: http://time.com/3938050/orthodox-christians-must-now-learn-to-live-as-exiles-in-our-own-country/

    Also, Mollie Hemmingway:

    3 stages of media treatment of religious liberty concerns:

    “Straw man!”
    “Could happen but won’t b/c of politics!”
    “You deserve it!”

    Which, I’m seeing all three right now.

  5. Darleen says:
    June 29, 2015 at 1:36 pm

    Ernst

    Yes, that is kind of what I had in mind when typing “hoax”.

    Most of the “hate crimes” we’ve seen have all been done by the claiming “victims”.

  6. bgbear says:
    June 29, 2015 at 3:26 pm

    What was the stance on gay marriage for these churches?

  7. cranky-d says:
    June 29, 2015 at 4:37 pm

    I assume it’s B.S. like almost every other “act of racism” that gets reported.

  8. newrouter says:
    June 29, 2015 at 5:29 pm

    that’s the problem with paid activism, the “employee” might be tempted to increase his “value”

  9. Bob Belvedere says:
    June 29, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    One would hope that the Internet Factor will prevent another Reichstag.

    [Don’t mind me: for some silly reason The-Triumph-Of-Hope-Over-Experience thingy still effects me now and again.]

  10. cranky-d says:
    June 29, 2015 at 6:45 pm

    Take a pill and lie down for a while. You’ll get over it.

  11. Bob Belvedere says:
    June 29, 2015 at 6:55 pm

    Ahhh, Cranky!…but which pill?

  12. cranky-d says:
    June 29, 2015 at 8:20 pm

    The red one. This is not a nightmare, it’s real.

  13. Patrick Chester says:
    June 29, 2015 at 9:09 pm

    “But I ate both pills…”

  14. Bob Belvedere says:
    June 29, 2015 at 9:47 pm

    I stick with bourbon.

  15. dicentra says:
    June 29, 2015 at 10:09 pm

    This article says only two of the six fires have undetermined causes: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-black-church-fires-20150629-story.html#page=1

    The other four are lightning strike, two electrical shorts, and a van fire.

  16. cranky-d says:
    June 30, 2015 at 5:35 am

    That’s impossible. All fires involving churches with predominantly black congregations are started by racist conservatives (but I repeat myself).

    That’s just common knowledge.

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