Church Arsons

Was the Church Arson Story Legit? ~	"It seemed quite clear to me in the mid-1990s that certain activists on racial issues had seized on the church fires as a way of raising either consciousness about racism or money for their causes or both. They were distorting the facts beyond all recognition."
Church Arson in Norway: The Devil Made Them Do It ~	"During the past four years more than 20 historic wooden churches have been destroyed in arson attacks, with several stave churches narrowly escaping attempts. Almost all the attacks have been attributed to the Satanists, a small but virulent group of disaffected youths engaged in revolt against a staid Norwegian society."
National Church Arson Task Force ~	"For example, Congress passed into law the Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996, which granted federal prosecutors greater power in pursuing burnings and desecration at houses of worship. This new law enabled prosecutors to file charges in racially motivated arsons without having to demonstrate that the incident affected interstate commerce."
ADL Response to Church Arsons ~	"...the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the National Urban League, whose full-page advertisements took the lead in mobilizing Americans from coast to coast to help rebuild burned churches...The Fire of Hate Consumes Us All, Help Put It Out Now trumpeted the ads appearing in newspapers around the country, urging people to write to the congregations along with contributions to the ADL Rebuild the Churches Fund."
Church Arson Query Page (ATF) ~	Total number of African-American Houses of Worship Burned (1996-1997) was 136; total number of other houses of worship burned during the same time period: 245. So much for the attack against Black churches; this was war against the Church itself.
Church Arson Conspiracy Hoax ~	"Certain government and religious leaders denounced what they termed a 'conspiracy against religion' or 'attacks' on religious exercise. This past summer, a special Task Force formed to investigate the church arsons released its final report, and concluded that there was no evidence of a single, coordinated conspiracy. Many factors, noted the report, accounted for the burnings."
Church Arson Fires on the Rise ~	"The reason for the increase is not immediately apparent. State Fire Marshal M. Tracy Boatwight said, 'We have not been able to establish a link between any of the fires. They have occurred at random, across the state, with no single motive and no one denomination as a victim.'"
Church Burnings in the South ~	"The people burning down black churches in the South are generally white, male and young, usually economically marginalized or poorly educated, frequently drunk or high on drugs, rarely affiliated with hate groups, but often deeply driven by racism, according to investigators and a review of those arrested or convicted in the burnings."
Arson and Black Churches ~	"Since January 1995, in the southeastern United States, 57 arson fires have been set in churches with predominantly Black congregations, and 32 set in churches with multinational congregations. Nationwide, 90 church fires were reported in June and July as being investigated as arson. Yet this wave of arson did not make headlines at all until angered African American communities conducted their own inquiries."
Man pleads not guilty in weekend church fire ~	"Police say Jared Bryan Goldenberg, 25, used gasoline to ignite the fire in a waste container in the basement of the National Shrine of the Little Flower. Goldenberg also painted the Star of David on some rest room walls, police said."
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Many people hope to write off the movement against Christian churches as simply "racism" or the acts of a few anti-social individuals. The evidence suggests that the movement is more widespread, with resentments of Christianity that may include but are not limited to racism. While President Clinton and the ADL trumpeted that church burnings in America as "racially motivated," the truth was marching on: people every day are waking up to the insanity of Judeo-Christianity and are striking back at outposts of the Judeo-Christian religion.

Wherever there are walls I shall inscribe this eternal accusation against Christianity upon the - I can write in letters which make even the blind see... I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind... - F.W. Nietzsche

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