Since the beginning of the year there have been over 7 churches in East Texas that have fallen victim to arson. It has been all over the news here lately and is actually really troubling to watch. Religion is a huge part of the families and communities in East Texas with many people having the churches their families have gone to for generation destroyed. Since my Supervisor and her husband are both pastors at a rural church outside of Jacksonville these stories have hit a little closer to home than I could have ever imagined. They are fearful of their own small rural church located only a half hour away from where several other arsons have taken place.
Today on the radio they said they suspect it to be an arson or a group of arsons. Wow, brilliant police work. I wonder if it is something trying to take a stand against the vice religion has on this part of the country? There is a lot of religious radio networks here and a man was discussing the recent fires bluntly said today, "You wonder what whoever has done this will have to say when he meets his maker. I'm pretty sure he might just hear, "Oh, you like fire, I know the perfect place for ya."" Touche, radio guy, touche.
Whoever these anti-religious pyros are, I hope they begin to realize as I have that all these fires are doing are unifying the religious community. I feel like you could insert some type of fire joke here but I'd probably be too soon...
Here is a more detailed article by the Wall Street Journal on the church fires.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703455804575057612462847940.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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