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Home Front: Culture Wars
Vandals ransack historic church, destroy Bible
2006-08-13
The vandals who hit the historic Old West Church in Boston spared little. The church's beloved old pulpit Bible was torn in half. Its hymnals were violently scattered about the sanctuary. Four old paintings of previous pastors were ripped from the walls and torn. A 5-foot tall painting of Jesus on the Cross was slashed.

The church's pastor, The Rev. Laurel Scott, led a cleanup of the mess yesterday and vowed to carry on. ``My approach is: We live in this kind of world, and these things will happen," she said. ``There's no reason to think we'll be exempt. The real question is how we handle it and go forward."

Boston police said they had no suspects in the vandalism, which occurred around 7:30 a.m. on Thursday. However, Scott said police told her that fingerprints were found all over the crime scene, and investigators worked yesterday to trace them while also appealing to the public for help. Nothing was stolen from the church on Cambridge Street.
Posted by:lotp

#6  The church's pastor, The Rev. Laurel Scott, led a cleanup of the mess yesterday and voweled to carry on.
Posted by: Qana   2006-08-13 18:00  

#5  I don't think fingerpronts will do them a whole hell of a lot of good.
It's a church, there've got to be thousands of parishioners fingerprints inside it, and on a 200 year old Bible, think of all who have turbed it's pages over the last two centuries.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2006-08-13 11:22  

#4  I thought the Vandals went down the Iberian Pennisula and across to Africa.

Or something.

Point taken on 'not stereotyping'. LOL.
Posted by: Quana   2006-08-13 09:15  

#3  All you do is a little sacking of Rome in 445AD, and no one lets up on your case. Everytime someone trashes a place, you get blamed. Let's not stereotype out there boys.
Posted by: Vandal Anti Defamation League   2006-08-13 09:02  

#2  Vandalism is bad, but I'm gonna get REALLY PISSED if I see any cartoons about Jesus.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2006-08-13 04:33  

#1  I know all Christians are supposed to shreik in horror that a "Christian" church was ransacked. I object to the vandalism in the same way I'd object to vandalizing anything: Vandalism is mean, violent and senseless, and a violation of property rights. But I don't object on the basis that it was a 'church' or possibly a 'hate crime'. They wrote 'Ichabod' over the door of this place many decades ago. Maybe if the hoodlums went after a Bible believing church, I'd feel differently.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-08-13 00:08  

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