A Mississippi church whose leadership refused to close the church’s doors during the state’s COVID-19 lockdown was burned down to the ground. The hatred towards people who don’t obey the far-left, especially when it comes to religion, is spreading. The left has convinced people anyone who doesn’t mindlessly follow stringent lockdown restrictions is worthy of disdain and violence.
An unidentified suspect reportedly burned the church down Wednesday morning.
The First Pentecostal Church of Holly Springs was vandalized, which caused an explosion to the rear of the facility. It is being investigated as an act of arson.
One message spray-painted on the church property read, “I bet you stay home now you hypokrits [sic].”
Stephen Crampton, an attorney for the church, told WHBQ-TV on Thursday that the unknown vandal or vandals spray-painted the church and set it on fire.
“There was a major explosion in the back of the church that blew out the front,” Crampton said.
THEY STOOD UP FOR THE RIGHTS AND PAID A PRICE
The church leadership has been outspoken about the constitutional right to open. They are currently suing against the lockdown.
Crampton said that he believed the church was targeted for “being outspoken and somewhat firm about seeking to protect their constitutional rights” by refusing to close during the pandemic.
“We’re in a time where I don’t think it’s any secret that there’s a growing hostility toward churches across the board,” he said. “And now, here are churches like First Pentecostal that are sort of stirring up the waters by being outspoken and somewhat firm about seeking to protect their constitutional rights.”
He added, “[The church has] had bad comments [sent their way] on social media. There is just a segment that takes issue with the church standing up, and the church just being the church.”
IT WILL BE REBUILT, THEY WILL CONTINUE SERVICES
Pastor Jerry Waldrop promised that the church would be rebuilt.
“We are going to keep the faith, and we’re going to keep doing what we have always done, and maybe not on this location,” Waldrop said. “I’ll get with our faithful people, and maybe we’ll rent a building or whatever we need to do for the time being.”
He added that the church will be rebuilt on site, and said that he didn’t feel new construction would be an issue for the church and its community.
“We have the means, so whatever it takes, that’s what we will do,” Waldrop continued. “We have a tight group that’s been faithful, so whatever means are necessary, that is what I will do.
“It’s just hard to wrap your head around the idea that someone may have orchestrated this or done this,” he concluded.
Americans should never have to pay a price like this for standing up for their constitutional rights. A two-week lockdown should have been enough, maybe three weeks. It’s now two months and some states are becoming more restrictive. People will have to sue to get their rights back as our economy sinks into depression.
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My beliefs re: God, et al may not be the same as the folks of this MS church, but I’ll defend their right to worship as they see fit according to their beliefs. As near as I can tell, thier beliefs are not an infringement on anyone else’s religious tenets nor person. They do no harm to others via thier adherence to their version of christianity.
What we have here is a deep seated hatred for anything, or anyone, which doesn’t agree with the dictatorial edicts perpetrated upon this nation by the leftists in government.
If the person who did this is ever caught, my bet is on someone who is a government employee, or a dedicated dem/leftist, who felt this would be a good way to shut down the church for its resistance to the state. A true believer in the government as the ultimate answer to all of their needs and wants.
Just sayin’.
I see Democrats have gone back to burning churches in Mississippi. It was the Jim Crow Democrats that did it during the 60s civil rights movement and now it’s the communist Democrats doing it again as churches and Americans in general are standing up for our Constitutional rights.
First they target Jews in New York, now these Marxist Leftist ghouls are burning church building. All under the guise of the greater good. I wonder how long it’s going to take for the law to catch up with those who committed the arson?? and what, if anything, the law will to if and when they are arrested???
Under a democrap regime they all get out of jail free…as they will be called “Heroes of the Revolution”… as muslims call their mass murderers “martyrs”…the writing is on the wall…red November or annihilation…
November win! If not, 25,000,000 patriots with pitchforks visit the DC Dictators in DC!