Atheists desecrate country church

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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.

Or Satan

OP was it a picture of Richard Dawkin's willy, I've heard it is impressive?

ManBearPig

There are many faith schools in South Ribble. St Mary’s High School is the nearest one to this church iirc, so it’s wrong to say a significant number of children in the area only get the basic ‘daily act of broadly Christian worship’.

IMHO if Atheists where to attack Christianity on Good Friday, then they would have chosen somewhere more prominent than a small church in a place that most people have never heard of.

Isn’t there something, somewhere, about not bearing false witness? And perhaps also relevant here on turning the other cheek?

Accusing all atheists of being in some kind of “lobby group” that aims to vandalize and hurt your community is a libel. Its also an absurd overreach. Vandals and graffiti artists exist in every community and for every reason. is someone who scrawls obscenities under a railway bridge anti railways?

Christians have been leaving graffiti and destroying each others churches for centuries—did you not notice your own religious wars and the seizing of the monasteries? Or ever notice the graffiti in your own churches? Its not because of the atheists.

It’s hooliganism not atheism.

It doesn’t, in the slightest, indicate anything at all about ‘the secular lobby’ because the secular lobby has no issue with people worshipping God. The secular lobby simply believes that church and state should be separate.

I wish people knew what secular meant.

@ItGhoul Snap!

This particular line of dialogue seems to be focussed on how to tell if someone is praying silently or not as evidenced by your question

“How did anyone know she was praying silently if she was praying silently?”

The thread itself is about an attack on a church building.

I’m suggesting another thread to discuss your question might be helpful, that’s all.

West Midlands Police pay out £13,000 to Christian volunteer “unlawfully” arrested for praying silently near an abortion facility

She was clearly making people (probably mostly women) uncomfortable for using the abortion facility.

Be against abortion if you must. But do not enforce your views on others.

The majority of women going to places to like these are not going for giggles are they? They know that some people do not approve, but some weirdo praying is not going to change the facts of why they are there, and should basically be more "Christian caring" and support women during their difficult times!

https://www.london.gov.uk/events/passion-jesus-trafalgar-square-2025

Christians not allowed to pray in the streets....

Not really, op said it was an attack against Christians.

Posters pointed out most twatty teenagers

She then said a woman was not allowed to silently pray ...... outside an abortion clinic

No one gives a shit what diety you believe in, you're crazy that atheists think that much about it. What we (i know i am grouping) care about is not being arseholes.

HTH

After “praying” in-front of abortion clinics comes the murder of the doctors and nurses there, the firebombing if clinics, and the destruction of health care services for the other women attending the clinic. That has been the trajectory in the US. I wonder why these people never interfere with business at porn films, stake out the homes of wealthy men who use prostitutes, or risk blockading the embassies of countries at war over war crimes. Why do they only block and harrass women seeking medical care? Its a mystery!

I didn’t raise the point about the silent prayer outside the abortion clinic. I merely wanted to know from the person who did raise it, how anyone could tell she was praying if she was silent. Sorry if that’s a ….what was the word you used?..an uncomfortable question.

As a kid/ teenager easter was just 2 weeks off school and chocolate eggs.

That was it, I went to a church school (CofE) it was never made a big deal. The only place I've seen it as important really is here

That’s not what I asked.

Old churches are quite nice buildings. The new ones are gopping. Most of the people who go to them are generally quite nice. But I find organised religion to be an absolute scourge.

God is omnipresent, apparently. If you want to pray for unborn children's souls, do it at home or in church, not in the vicinity of an abortion facility. He can hear you wherever you are.

How are silent prayers repulsive?

Or She.

There is no way of knowing if this was carried out specifically by atheists, despite the nature of the graffiti. It’s a disgrace, but it strikes me as the work of vandals rather than people with a coherent message. When I was growing up in Belfast, there was plenty of graffiti, one of the favourite slogans being ‘Up the Ra’ or ‘Up the UDA’, depending on their paramilitary group of choice. The people who did this (most likely kids) would have shat themselves if a member of the paramilitaries had so much as glanced in their direction. It was all grandstanding and bluster.

There are some really pathetic and idiotic people in the world who like to destroy things, then get a kick out of watching people’s outrage.

lt was honestly like a scene from call the midwife. The community coming together. I remember there being glass on the floor and another man saying ‘don’t you touch that love, leave it to us’

I said to my overwhelmed friend ‘come on let’s get on with what we are good at’ and made 30 cups of tea for the helpers

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