A string of black churches have been ravaged by fire in the past week, in what could potentially be a string of racially-motivated arson attacks. Places of worship in Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Ohio were ravaged by flames this week.
Authorities wasted no time in confirming that all of the attacks were arson, while investigations are ongoing to ascertain the true facts behind these acts of national disgrace. The attacks come as national attention centers on racial divisions in the wake of the church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, where nine people were gunned down by Dylann Roof.
In the latest development, flames ravaged a historic black church just north of Charleston, S.C., Tuesday evening for four hours as fire crews from two counties battled to get the blaze under control, according to washiongton post. “It’s gone,” local state senator Cezar McKnight told the Charleston Post and Courier, as he watched smoke billow from the roof of the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, a modest congregation in the tiny town of Greeleyville. “They don’t know the cause yet, but I am hoping for the best.
The news is the same in the line of series of more than a dozen number of churches that has been burnt down in America since the massacre of nine black worshipers in their church in Charleston, South Carolina, by Dylann Roof a week ago. My question now is, has God deserted America?What has gone wrong with America?
The predominantly African American congregation is more than 100 years old. Their church building had previously been burned to the ground in June 1995, almost exactly 20 years before Tuesday’s blaze. Two young white men with ties to the Ku Klux Klan were arrested in connection with the fire, according to documents from House Judiciary Committee hearings held in 1996. The men were members of the KKK during the time of the burning, but since renounced their membership, their lawyer said. “To see the church burned was sad to me, but to learn that the church was burned by hideous acts of others crushed my heart,” the Rev. Terrance G. Mackey, pastor of Mt. Zion, said during the hearings.
Attacking black churches has traditional been a tactic of white supremacists for centuries. At a passionate eulogy on Friday for one of the victims of the Charleston massacre, President Barack Obama drew an explicit link between arson and racial oppression.
He said that Roof, who espoused white supremacist views online, 'surely sensed the meaning of his violent act'. 'It was an act that drew on a long history of bombs and arson and shots fired at churches, not random, but as a means of control, a way to terrorize and oppress.'
''In matters of faith, which affect the nature and will of God and our salvation, we must close our eyes, ears, and other senses and listen solely and intently to what and how scripture speaks about these things. We must wrap ourselves simply in God’s Word and be directed by it. We may not attempt to follow our own insights or measure scripture by them.'' (Martin Luther, WA 54, 158; quoted in Kooiman, p. 229)
Is America now following their own insights or are they measuring the scriptures by themselves? History I strongly believe is there to teach people lessons and guide us all accordingly. A church is a place of worship and it's to be kept holy, else God might in anger shot-up his compassion against America.
God please have mercy on America in JESUS name AMEN!
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