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Methodists with matches

Three Students Arrested in Alabama Church FiresBy JAY REEVES, AP

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (March 8) – Three college students were arrested Wednesday in a string of nine rural Alabama church arsons that allegedly were set first as “a joke” and later as an attempt to divert a massive arson investigation.(snip)The three suspects were all white, and were either attending or had been enrolled at Birmingham-Southern, a liberal arts school affiliated with the Methodist church.Five of the burned churches were destroyed and four were damaged, including one in which congregants, alerted during the night that churches were afire, arrived just as the apparent arsonists were leaving. That fire, quickly put out, had been set in the sanctuary near the altar – a pattern in the other church arsons in Bibb County and West Alabama.Jim Parker, pastor of Ashby Baptist Church at Brierfield, a Bibb County church destroyed in the Feb. 3 arson, said the congregation has been apprehensive about whether the arsonists had some “political or religious agenda.”"I want to find out the motivation of these young men. Young folks get some crazy ideas,” he said.

If only we had some way to force the churches and private schools to teach Atheistic morals. These kids need more Atheism in their life! Maybe we should put disclaimers in their bibles…

104 Responses to “Methodists with matches”

  1. Larry Reynolds rainbows4dinosaurs says:

    Phreedm

    but obviously there’s a sliver of truth in it.

    Are you out of your fucking mind? Oh wait, maybe that’s a dumb question.

    Absolutely no one refuted what Dave said. That in itself amazes me…

    Refute what? IT WAS A JOKE! It was irony, sarcasm. His point was that the christian majority would never stand for it if the government paid us to force our ideals on believers, but for some reason it’s perfectly fine for them to do it. Do you understand anything at all? Also, you are flat out wrong – Jeremy DID respond to your ridiculous accusation 03/10/06 @ 13:08:

    I could be very wrong here, but I think Dave was being sarcastic here. I’d be very surprised if Dave, or American Atheists were interested in pushing some made up “Atheistic Moral Code” on the populous.

    So there you go.

    And BTW – my response was not emotional. Over the top? Sure I guess – over the top SARCASM, which relies on the concept of IRONY, something that you obviously have absolutely no sense of.

    Must suck to be you.

  2.  udonman says:

    r4d fuck phreedm man he just stirs shit up i am sure no one here would care if i start deleting his post but i wont i will let Dave decide its his blog

  3. says:

    I wouldn’t 4-q Phredummy with your dick

  4. Anonymous says:

    The arsonists were jews and the churches were baptist. The jews were acting on a fatwa put forth in 2005 by Abraham Foxman, the leader of the jew supremacist hate group Anti-defamation League.