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More Alabama churches torched

Four more Alabama churches have been hit by arson overnight after five were burned over the weekend.

The four were in a rural area and all nine fires were set in Baptist churches. This is a hate crime.

Fires damaged four more rural Baptist churches overnight following rash of suspected arsons that burned five others south of Birmingham last week, a state official said Tuesday.

The four new fires were near the Mississippi line, about 10 to 20 miles from each other. All were in sparsely populated areas off rural roads, similar to the five that burned early Friday south of Birmingham.

Ragan Ingram, a spokesman for the state insurance agency that oversees fire investigations, said it was too soon to say if there was any link between the sets of blazes.

“Obviously we’re going to investigate these as suspected arsons,” Ingram said.

A United Church of Christ in Virginia was damaged in July last year by anti-gay activists.

Published 2 years, 9 months ago

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1 dh on Feb 8th, 2006 at 7:34 am

What does the last sentence on Virginia have to do with Alabama when the churches in Alabama were not disclosed as being for or against gays?

“A United Church of Christ in Virginia was damaged in July last year by anti-gay activists.” Should have been removed. It seems to beg many questions rather than focusing on the why when it seems to be not associated with gays or anything since they were Baptist churches in Alabama, unless you are say gays torched these churches which we have no idea this was or was not the case. I just dislike speculation and conspiracy theories because my conclsuions on those is more times than not they are wrong. dh
2 Drina on Feb 8th, 2006 at 9:49 am

I don’t know how anyone could resort to this. No greivance could ever justify destroying someone else’s place of worship.
3 Bene D on Feb 8th, 2006 at 12:05 pm

You are correct DH.

The possibilities are numerous.

It could be teens.

Could be someone who failed to make a grade in firefighting, law enforcement, or theology school.

Could be someone with hate as message.

Could be someone who has recently suffered a loss.

It could be a mentally ill person who believes he/she is doing God’s work.

It could be a someone with a complusive need to set fires - an arsonist.

It could be someone who has a personal grudge against Baptists.

Could be someone with a substance abuse problem.

Could be someone who wants the excitement and craves attention.

Could be someone covering up another crime like B&E or theft.

Could be revenge.

The most common reason for arson in the US is insurance fraud.

Motives for fire setters cross personal, social and material bounds.

However, I added that last sentence, not the newspaper and since we are discussing this in this thread, I’ll leave it up.

You can live with your discomfort that the Virginia church motives has resolution and the Alabama churches motives do not as yet.

You are jumping to conclusions, speculation has nothing to do with conspiracy theory. I posted about this previously and did a list of possibles. Whatever the motive(s) the behavior has escalated.

If (big if) these fires are motived by hate I condemn and will condemn that in the strongest possible terms.