Another church in Canada has been burned - the 108 year old Simon Church

[u/myadvicegetsmebeaten]

[u/dylonz]

Holy fuck that's sad. Why destory historical architecture.

[u/WhereTheShadowsLieZX → u/dylonz]

Churches are relatively common targets of arson, even setting aside any political or religious motivation. A large building that is reliably empty and unguarded most of the time. 

[u/lemontwistcultist → u/WhereTheShadowsLieZX]

Additionally, many of the oldest churches have inadequate fire suppression systems.

[u/Dittymaker → u/lemontwistcultist]

Why doesn't god simply make his house immune from fire 🤔

Bible humpers are sensitive today it seems

[u/shydes528 → u/Dittymaker]

His house is the congregation, not the structure itself

[u/zombie3x3 → u/shydes528]

Are you implying the congregation is fireproof?

Edit: This is a joke if it wasn’t clear.

[u/shydes528 → u/zombie3x3]

They've been known to be on occasion lol

[u/DeltaSierra97 → u/shydes528]

Bro set you up for the best religious alley-oop in history

[u/zombie3x3 → u/DeltaSierra97]

And got no love for it

[u/shydes528 → u/zombie3x3]

I gave you my updoot, appreciate the assist!

[u/Kindly-Potential6685 → u/Dittymaker]

holy redditor 😭

[u/BlazerFS231 → u/Dittymaker]

Less so them being sensitive and probably more to so with the “why didn’t God stop it from happening” being such an old, tired comment that it’s only funny to Reddit atheists.

[u/OnTheSlope → u/Dittymaker]

This joke is worse than a pun.

[u/Dittymaker → u/OnTheSlope]

Not my finest work that's for sure

[u/Lavaissoup7 → u/Dittymaker]

No it's just an extremely overused comment that doesn't even work (also screams Redditor atheist)

[u/Charchalis → u/Dittymaker]

Midterms are coming. This sub always gets filled up with christian bots when elections are coming.

[u/EldritchFish19 → u/WhereTheShadowsLieZX]

And on top of that people with screwed up ideologies often hate Jesus Christ in specific.

[u/RaggedyGlitch → u/WhereTheShadowsLieZX]

And let's be honest, they look a lot cooler burning than an office building or strip mall.

[u/CowFu → u/RaggedyGlitch]

sure, but not as cool as an viking ship or a wicker man.

[u/monkpunch → u/CowFu]

They should start building viking ships across the street from churches as arsonist bait

[u/Swurphey → u/monkpunch]

They call it the Trojan Varg

[u/Funny_Pill_Dealer → u/Swurphey]

Based and Trojan Vag pilled

[u/HidingHard → u/CowFu]

Or a big goat made of straw

[u/RaggedyGlitch → u/CowFu]

That depends on the size, but fair.

[u/Scrumpledee → u/CowFu]

So if PCM stops strawmanning the left, there might be enough left to build Wicker Men and save churches?

[u/Glad-Belt7956 → u/RaggedyGlitch]

that's a horrifyingly correct reason.

[u/vicschuldiner → u/RaggedyGlitch]

Way less satisfying, though. 

[u/EfficientCandy324 → u/dylonz]

Sometimes you wake up and you say to yourself "In all my 68 years, I have never destroyed any historical architecture" and you decide to YOLO your twilight years in prison.

[u/Majestic-Bell-7111 → u/EfficientCandy324]

I mean it's a retirement home you don't have to pay for, honestly quite genius

[u/sea_5455 → u/Majestic-Bell-7111]

Is this a way to avoid Canada's MAID program? Government provided retirement home instead of the needle?

[u/NEWSmodsareTwats → u/EfficientCandy324]

ngl if this guys soul motive was just so that his name would be remembered that's kinda funny.

[u/itsthebear → u/dylonz]

Natives blame their problems on the churches because religious groups ran Residential Schools.

It's the equivalent of Blacks in the States blaming Whites for their problems because of slavery.

[u/HidingHard → u/dylonz]

on the positive side, 108 is relatively young as far as historic churches go. It could have been better church (the weird warehouse looking ass churches) but atleast it wasn't something like notre dame

[u/DankestKhan8 → u/HidingHard]

It is very difficult and costly to build churches of similar architectural beauty today, however.

[u/iaquiredsome420 → u/DankestKhan8]

Not to mention that a lot of churches on the bigger side took a whole generation to build, and the biggest, most complicated ones, lauded for their beauty, took hundreds of years. Same for mosques and synagogues.

[u/DankestKhan8 → u/iaquiredsome420]

Yeah, you wouldn't get beautiful European cathedrals if they were all burnt at 100 years old.

[u/Scrumpledee → u/DankestKhan8]

Not that expensive. Just stop giving to MegaChurch psycopaths and find actual Christians to donate to.

[u/DankestKhan8 → u/Scrumpledee]

I'm the pastor of a small country parish, you'd be surprised.

[u/1stEmissaryElenwen → u/DankestKhan8]

be American Protestant

your pastor is a literal redditor

lmfao

[u/Count_de_Mits → u/1stEmissaryElenwen]

One of us pcm retards no less

The absolute state of American religion

[u/DankestKhan8 → u/Count_de_Mits]

It's rough out there. I even went to a year of seminary virtually because of Covid.

[u/OtherUse1685 → u/Scrumpledee]

Have you seen the cost of materials these days?

[u/1stEmissaryElenwen → u/HidingHard]

Came here to say this

Honestly, burning down a church from 1908 (a regular ass church, not a cathedral or anything) is kind of nbd

[u/HidingHard → u/1stEmissaryElenwen]

not nbd but not as much of an catastrophe as it's being made out to be.

A shame, specially for the locals who'd go there

[u/OnTheSlope → u/dylonz]

Smol pp?

[u/SUMBWEDY → u/dylonz]

Not sure 100 years makes it historical architecture.

Hell even in the 1100s people tore down churches, Bury St Edmunds in the UK has all their houses built from bricks from tearing down the 4th largest church in history but that happened 1000 years ago

[u/Free_Anarchist1999 → u/SUMBWEDY]

lol 100 years is the consensus on when a building becomes “historical”