Lightning Burns Down Church, But FOX News Focuses on Preserved Jesus Painting

[phands]

Wow, xtians are dumb.....

Some people actually believe God struck a church with lightning, burning nearly everything inside… except for some artwork that He just really wanted to save.


FOX News and some Christians are ignoring the fact that Tuesday’s fire at historic First Baptist Church near Boston was simply a natural disaster and are instead focusing on a painting of Jesus that survived the blaze with surprisingly little damage.


A lightning strike reportedly ignited a massive inferno Tuesday night at the 150-year-old First Baptist Church in Wakefield, Massachusetts, destroying almost everything inside — but amid the rubble, crews miraculously found one painting survived the hellish flames.

http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/...fox-news-focuses-on-preserved-jesus-painting/

 

[Keith&Co.]

So, he can keep a bush burning without being consumed, but a church that is central to so many families, he can only save a picture?
It wouldhave been impressive if the building had been aflame, but unconsumed, until someone noticed that god wanted the picture saved.
And
just maybe, if this was to make some sort of point, might have been accomplished without injuries to the firefighters.

 

[skepticalbip]

In another hundred years or so the story will be that it was a blazing inferno with several fire stations on site fighting a loosing battle against the flames. Amidst the noise, mist of water blowing back from the fire hoses, and hot ashes falling on the crowd shielding their faces from the heat of the fire, a little orphan child points into the conflagration and quietly says, "look, what is that". The crowd lowers their hands that had been shielding their faces from heat and stand in solemn awe as they watch the flames part and two angles emerge carrying an unscorched painting of Jesus, our Lord and Savior.

 

[steve_bank]

When Ben Franklin demonsted lightning was a natural electric phenomena it actually casuded a theological crisis.

A common belief was if your house or barn got struck by lightning it was a sign from above where of course god dwelled.

Minsters preached lightning rods were an abomination and offense against god.

 

[Angry Floof]

Hmmm. I suspect there were homosexuals in that church.

 

[Tigers!]

When Ben Franklin demonsted lightning was a natural electric phenomena it actually casuded a theological crisis.

A common belief was if your house or barn got struck by lightning it was a sign from above where of course god dwelled.

Some Minsters preached lightning rods were an abomination and offense against god.

FIFY

 

[Tigers!]

When Ben Franklin demonsted lightning was a natural electric phenomena it actually casuded a theological crisis.

A common belief was if your house or barn got struck by lightning it was a sign from above where of course god dwelled.

Some Minsters preached lightning rods were an abomination and offense against god.

FIFY

And before some jump up and down - the Wesley brothers (founders of Methodism) who were very active in the US and Uk at the time of Franklin's experiment did not say that lightning rods were an abomination or a sign of a lack of faith in God.

 

[steve_bank]

When Ben Franklin demonsted lightning was a natural electric phenomena it actually casuded a theological crisis.

A common belief was if your house or barn got struck by lightning it was a sign from above where of course god dwelled.

Some Minsters preached lightning rods were an abomination and offense against god.

FIFY

And before some jump up and down - the Wesley brothers (founders of Methodism) who were very active in the US and Uk at the time of Franklin's experiment did not say that lightning rods were an abomination or a sign of a lack of faith in God.

How is Methodist founded o the principles of two brothers biblically Christian? Some years back I did a survey of major American protestant home websites. There was actually a shift towards fitting evolution into theology, albeit as part of god's plan. Sane as the Vatican did some years back.

But so what, It does not change the nature of religion and its imaginary beliefs in the supernatural.

Christians can be pragmatic. I worked with Christians believing in Creationism who otherwise were good at science and engineering. They would not design a bridge based on scripture or hearinggod speak to them. They compartmentalized pragmatic science and religious beliefs.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Seems like Satan got equal time in Monroe, Ohio, when the 62-foot Big Butter Jesus (or Touchdown Jesus) was hit by lightning and burned gloriously (2010). It was replaced 2 years later by Lux Mundi, another giant Jesus (52 feet this time) where the old Nazarene looks like he's borrowed one of Kate Smith's stage gowns.
Funny, I didn't hear any 'what does this mean' sermons when Jesus burned down.

 

[skepticalbip]

Christians can be pragmatic. I worked with Christians believing in Creationism who otherwise were good at science and engineering. They would not design a bridge based on scripture or hearinggod speak to them. They compartmentalized pragmatic science and religious beliefs.

The Jesuit order in the Catholic church pretty much started the fields of astronomy and seismology and are still among the leaders. They established and operate a network of seismological stations around the world. They also have more than seventy large observatories where they continue their work in astronomy.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Clearly that Church was full of atheists. Your punishment is coming to you, heathens!

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

I always thought it interesting that when someone dies, even someone's child, the family takes the body to a church and glorifies their god over the dead person. If people are capable of this, gushing over a Jesus picture while losing a building and basically everything inside is truly small potatoes.

What kind of picture was it? Where did it come from? Was it a print or a painting? How big was it? I think the article said it was a white Jesus too, which would mean Jesus was an albino for his time, and looked mighty Euro. Was it made in China? Was the frame made in China?

I want to get beyond the emotional significance.

I also want to know what did not survive. That way we can get some perspective. What other paintings were in the building and did not make it? Was the front of the church decorated with the Jesus hanging on boards? Did it survive? What hymnals made it through the inferno? Maybe there's a message there in the ashes.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Someone clearly didn't get the memo banning idolatry.

 

[Max Rockatansky]

Wow, xtians are dumb.....

Some people actually believe God struck a church with lightning, burning nearly everything inside… except for some artwork that He just really wanted to save.


FOX News and some Christians are ignoring the fact that Tuesday’s fire at historic First Baptist Church near Boston was simply a natural disaster and are instead focusing on a painting of Jesus that survived the blaze with surprisingly little damage.


A lightning strike reportedly ignited a massive inferno Tuesday night at the 150-year-old First Baptist Church in Wakefield, Massachusetts, destroying almost everything inside — but amid the rubble, crews miraculously found one painting survived the hellish flames.

http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/...fox-news-focuses-on-preserved-jesus-painting/

LOL. Are "xtians" as dumb as those who constantly bitch and moan about anyone mentioning religious beliefs? Jesus fucking Christ, why don't more people get a life? Why do you think they focus on the negative all the time and not the positive?

 

[Max Rockatansky]

Hmmm. I suspect there were homosexuals in that church.

LOL

 

[Max Rockatansky]

Someone clearly didn't get the memo banning idolatry.

Whose memo? BTW, there's difference between worshiping an object and worshiping a spiritual idea represented as by an object. Consider the "burning the flag" debate. The flag represents the US but isn't the US. Burning it is considered free speech since it doesn't harm the US at all. It just makes it easier to identify US enemies.

 

[phands]

LOL. Are "xtians" as dumb as those who constantly bitch and moan about anyone mentioning religious beliefs? Jesus fucking Christ, why don't more people get a life? Why do you think they focus on the negative all the time and not the positive?

False comparison. It's these dumb-as-rocks xtians who trot out their idiotic faith-based gibberish at every opportunity, and then claim that gawd saved one item in a major fire he could, apparently, have avoided altogether. And it's xtians who constantly rub the noses of others in their pious maundering. There is no positive to religion.

 

[Max Rockatansky]

LOL. Are "xtians" as dumb as those who constantly bitch and moan about anyone mentioning religious beliefs? Jesus fucking Christ, why don't more people get a life? Why do you think they focus on the negative all the time and not the positive?

False comparison. It's these dumb-as-rocks xtians who trot out their idiotic faith-based gibberish at every opportunity, and then claim that gawd saved one item in a major fire he could, apparently, have avoided altogether. And it's xtians who constantly rub the noses of others in their pious maundering. There is no positive to religion.

LOL. Spread the hate, brother, spread the hate. You're just proving you're no better than the televangelist asshats.

 

[Tigers!]

There is no positive to religion.

Yes there is.
It gives you the opportunity to go onto fora like these and have a whinge.
Imagine how boring your life would be if you could not do that.

 

[steve_bank]

Christians can be pragmatic. I worked with Christians believing in Creationism who otherwise were good at science and engineering. They would not design a bridge based on scripture or hearinggod speak to them. They compartmentalized pragmatic science and religious beliefs.

The Jesuit order in the Catholic church pretty much started the fields of astronomy and seismology and are still among the leaders. They established and operate a network of seismological stations around the world. They also have more than seventy large observatories where they continue their work in astronomy.

Astronomy predates the Jesuits. Newton used in part old Persian planetary observational data for his development of mechanics. Before the rise of Europe and European science the place to be was Persia and Arabia. Watched a show that did a reconstructed image of a Persian observatory hat in its time was the international place to be. Dormitories and lecture halls.

I went to Catholic schools in the 50s-60s through 12th grade. My best high school math teacher was a nun. My best science teacher, chemistry, was a Mexican priest.

The RCC was always an odd mix of science and theology. Descarte was educated by Jesuits.

The Vatican has a working observatory, I would not call it major. I remember a priest from the Vatican observatory contributing to Scientific American.