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.

OK, well then get together with Curlew Kate and set about changing the system.

Blimey. And they say Christian privilege isn’t a thing!

What a lovely snarky response.

I guess that would be those "Christian values" that we're all supposed to cherish...

I live in Leyland. There is very little for teenagers and an awful lot of teenagers hanging around. The sports clubs have to be paid for, require parents to both pay and take you along/support you in getting to away matches etc. which is simply not possible for a lot of the parents around here. There is significant deprivation in parts of Leyland. 1 small youth zone is not enough to engage all the teenagers in town, especially as they get older. Me and my husband are genuinely quite concerned about bringing our kids up in this town but unfortunately all of the much nicer (read more middle class) villages around us are significantly more expensive to buy houses in, unsurprisingly.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Maybe you could come up with some practical solutions to tackle what you are actually aggrieved about?

I have no reason to disagree with you.

However, as the suspect in custody is 30 years old the "bored teenager" angle seems to have been scotched.

We will have to wait for developments.

@peasporridgeCan you explain why you think Christians should have things organised for their benefit in state funded schools in a country where less than half the population consider themselves to be Christians?

What makes you think none of us are campaigning to change things?

The trouble is, your have your bishops in the legislature, and yet you claim not to have any privilege...

I don't have to explain my thought processes to you or anyone else and quite frankly find you belligerent and aggressive. So I won't be engaging any more,.

Tony Blair tried to reform the House of Lords. As you are aware on 7 November 2001 the (Labour) government undertook a public consultation. This helped to create a public debate on the issue of Lords reform, with 1,101 consultation responses and numerous debates in Parliament and the media. However, no consensus on the future of the upper chamber emerged. So it seems it wasn't that popular.

"The trouble is, your have your bishops in the legislature, and yet you claim not to have any privilege".
Well you've got that wrong, I'm RC so they aren't my bishops.

No such thing?

Almost every Christian holiday in this country is a bank holiday.

As always stated C of E bishops in the house of Lords and school assemblies.

Schools paid for by the tax payer.

Priority in admission for your children to many schools.

Acts of violence carried out by Christians are not reported as being because they are Christian. I'm old enough to remember London Birmingham and Manchester (among others) being bombed.

If you give evidence in court the default oath is on your holy book.

Sorry @sashhI’m with you. “”No such thing” should have been in inverted commas! Or in the much needed IronyFont

@peasporridgeThe problem is that when you’re used to privilege, the mildest challenge feels like aggression.

Oh I obviously misread it.

Seems sadly like a growing trend

https://premierchristian.news/en/news/article/churches-vandalised-eight-times-a-day-across-england-and-wales

Sounds more like burglars than atheists……

I never mentioned the perpetrators, just the trend for vandalising churches.

Still doesn't lend much to your secularist lobby/disgruntled Protestants/false flag theories.

It was posted as a news item, that's all.

I didn't realise it was such a worrying trend.

@peasporridgeTo be fair, you posted in a thread about atheists desecrating a church and said you thought it was a worrying trend-when the report was about vandalism and burglary. Impossible not to assume you were making a link….

You made the link not me.

Maybe you know something the rest of us don't ?

Too funny. Really. It seems you can’t handle a little free speech and discussion if you discover you are in the minority—even for a moment.

When you defend a right for yourself that isn’t shared and equitable with others that is privilege.

You chose the thread title and made your OP. It's a bit rich to accuse other people of 'making a link' when you were the one posting about 'secularist forces'.

The reason why Church Schools both CofE and RC are funded was when the original Education Act instituted free state education it was the Catholic and Church of England Schools that provided the majority of schooling to the poor at a time when only the rich/ middle classes could afford it.

The churches own the land and those school buildings were taken over and swallowed up into the State Education System we now see today.
The costing would be unheard of and unimaginably expensive which no government of any political persuasion would want to touch/ deal with.

My biggest bug bear as a state teacher is that the catchments of community state schools are so ridiculous small. This in turn creates pockets of wealth areas for those who can afford to move to the street of that school.

The Church schools use diocese or parish so opens it up - I would like to see a school swap! So many Church parents don't get their chosen school and so many non Christian or of other faiths/No faith parents don't get their community school.
It could be like House Swap but School Swap!! silly idea I know.