Posted on 11/09/2017 4:15:31 PM PST by bgill
The Texas church where more than two dozen people were killed by a gunman during Sunday services will be demolished, the pastor said. Pastor Frank Pomeroy told leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention earlier this week that it would be too painful to continue using First Baptist Church as a place of worship. A national Southern Baptist spokesman said Pomeroy discussed the plan with the denomination's top executives, who traveled to the rural community in a show of support.
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Must of had a windfall
Sad....but I agree.
Yeah...very sad. I’d have a tough time going back in there IF I had been attending there knowing what had taken place. From the pics, it didn’t look like a very large church to start with.
Probably.
The killer wins when the church is torn down. What about all the baptisms there? What about all the weddings there? That’s like tearing a funeral home down because they had too many dead people. The community should stand strong.
“Must of had a windfall:
If your family had been murdered there, would want to go sit in the pew where it happened?
..this would qualify for funding from SBC disaster relief I think..
I heard that they are going to build another one at a nearby location.
Yup. A go fund me is somewhere.
I would.
I recall the Amish did that a few years ago when their children were killed, I thought then it was an interesting option.
Sad but necessary.
The Amish community did the same thing after the Nickel Mines schoolhouse massacre.
If you go on Google earth this church is right in the middle of town. Reminds me of the Baptist church I grew up in rural Mississippi looking at it
Sad? I’d have knocked that place down by now. Allowing that place to stand would be cruel, forcing everyone to relive the horrible experience.
The Amish tore down the school that was involved in the shootings some years ago-———best thing to do.
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I totally agree with you. Letting killers win takes no thought, and is driven by pure short term emotion.
It's as if all the people with roots to the building since it was built no longer matter.
Irrational waste of resources.
I remember taking the “gangster” tour of Chicago a few years ago.
We arrived at the site of the St. Valentines Day massacre. It is now a garden apartment complex. Landscaping for an apartment complex does not dramatize the event, when viewed today.
The Southern Baptist Convention has announced that they will be paying for all the funerals.
So wherever a terrorist strikes, the place gets torn down? Suppose they attacked Capitol Hill? When is America going to stop running from these people?
or everyone in the congregation pledged a truss and 2x4s and his labor.
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