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Investigators determined by Saturday that lightning sparked the blaze.
βIt has been confirmed to be lightning. We had a police officer that was doing a detail that he said he saw the church get struck by lightning. I just got another woman call me to say she was outside with her kids and saw it get struck by lightning. β¦ Yes, it was lightning,β Spencer Fire Chief Robert Parsons told the Telegram & Gazette newspaper.
No one was in the building at the time, but the 30-member United Church of Christ congregation is now without its spiritual home.
βPeople are deeply attached, so itβs going to be really hard for folks to figure out what comes next,β Rev. Bruce McLeod, who began leading the congregation as pastor in February, told WBZ-TV.
The Lord is sending a message to y'all doing butt stuff
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Apparently this used to be a huge issue before lightning rods were invented. Basically in any given tiny town the church was the tallest building so was the most likely to get struck by lightning, but also people believed that lightning strikes were God's will so when it happened it must be because the church/priest was doing something wrong.
There was even some bonus drama where people opposed installing lightning rods because that was thwarting God's will. How would we know who the evildoers are if we stop God from righteously punishing them with a bolt of lightning?
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