Atheists desecrate country church

[peasporridge]

The perpetrators drew vulgar graffiti on the wall of the church an also wrote "God is a lie".
They also desecrated about 40 gravestones.

This is particularly distressing because a wedding is scheduled today (Easter Saturday)

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/sickening-blasphemous-cowardly-church-gravestones-140717226.html

https://www.blogpreston.co.uk/2025/04/police-investigating-after-st-james-church-and-over-40-graves-defaced-ahead-of-good-friday/

This clearly demonstrates that Christianity is under threat.from the secular lobby.

If Muslims tried to pray there then they too would be arrested.

You are allowed to do certain things in certain areas and that woman has several times put herself outside an abortion clinic to provoke a reaction.

Also the image that usually accompanies that phrase is actually Muslims eating in the street not praying.

Was it all cleaned up in time for the wedding?

https://x.com/GoldingBF/status/1852304665481785373

No, apparently they put plants in front of it for the photos.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/lancashire-constabulary-leyland-preston-people-police-b1223278.html

They will have to take advice on specialist cleaning as the church is a listed building.

were they outside an abortion clinic?

No, just blocking the pavement in Parliament Square.

This lot were blocking a road

x.com/INSIGHTUK2/status/1572627835407187974

Don’t get your info off of X. Its not reliable.

Also, though you seem not to know it, Christian prayers and invocations are done in public at the start of events, institutional dedications, rallies, and protests all the time. No one is arrested for it.

its the blocking the road that's the issue then, not the praying

hth

@peasporridgeI’m afraid that X is not a reliable source any more, if it ever was. But in any case, I don’t think the Muslim prayers were breaking any laws-however perfornative and annoying they might have been. The woman outside the abortion clinic was. There is an exclusion zone around such places.

No roads here - hth

https://ilmfeed.com/friday-prayers-are-held-outside-englands-houses-of-parliament/

Obviously the police got that wrong, because she successfully sued the police for wrongful arrest.

Still no roads in sight here and the local mosque holds 800

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-68779272

@peasporridgeMy understanding was that there was something wrong with the process, rather than wrongful arrest.

Well, I can't comment on that.

Another one they got wrong

https://christianconcern.com/ccpressreleases/police-apologise-and-award-christian-evangelist-10000-for-speakers-corner-arrests/

The abuse Miss Hatun Tash suffered was incredible. And yet she was the one arrested ..twice! 🤔
Inexcusable.

I don't understand OP are you seriously objecting to people praying in public?

yes, people should be dealt with fairly at speakers corner and we know of several cases where this hasn't happened

as a thought experiment, what would you say about someone who heckled and argued with a person who was denouncing Islam?
and one who was denouncing Christianity?

Yes, shocking. At least, IIRC they caught and imprisoned a man who was plotting to murder her. The man who attacked her in public was never identified.

And there we have it

To be fair, instantly assuming that this attack was down to organised atheist persecution of Christianity was a hell of a reach and actually pretty damn offensive in and of itself.

However, I do take issue with the 'imaginary friend' brand of atheism - it's rude and crude. @Flumperina, do better. You're giving atheism a bad name.

@pointythings”To be fair, instantly assuming that this attack was down to organised atheist persecution of Christianity was a hell of a reach and actually pretty damn offensive in and of itself.
However, I do take issue with the 'imaginary friend' brand of atheism - it's rude and crude.

Hmm. I think it’s not as bad as a lot of the “atheists have no moral compass” brand of Christianity, frankly….

I 100% agree with you on this. But for some reason it's apprently OK to say this to atheists, and we're not then allowed to say that believers are at times extremely arrogant.

both these are bad, yet as a humanist I don't feel at all troubled by people saying I have no moral compass, its as if someone said I'd caused it to rain today

Cars and property in the area around the church sprayed with similar graffiti on Easter Sunday. Adding further weight to the perpetrators being stupid, bored teenagers.

Oh dear, if it’s a pattern developing that’s going to be even more difficult. I hope the police catch the perpetrators soon and they are properly dealt with 🙏🏻

Let's hope they get caught on CCTV, dashcams and Ring doorbells.