These attacks tried to destroy the physical symbols of faith and to demoralize people of faith.
That is what the godless Left has always done.
‘God is Dead’: Leftist Rioters Vandalize Churches and Synagogues
The assault on St. John’s Episcopal Church by radicals and racists was the ugliest moment of the D.C. riots. Not only was the famous 204-year-old church, which every president since Madison has attended, sprayed with graffiti, but some of the thugs even tried to burn it down by starting a fire in its basement.The attack and President Trump’s subsequent visit to the ‘Church of Presidents’ captured the attention of a nation. But what happened to St. John’s was not an aberration. The Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots have been associated with attacks on churches and synagogues across the United States.
The victims of New York City’s leftist riots included St. Patrick’s Cathedral as the venerable 142-year-old building was defaced with obscenities and the three letters BLM for Black Lives Matter, along with “George Floyd” and “No Justice, No Peace”.
In Richmond, Virginia, Beth Ahabah, a 225-year-old Reform Jewish congregation, had the windows in its grand 116-year-old building smashed by rioters. The building is now covered over with plywood. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, a 175-year-old building, also in Richmond, was defaced with graffiti. Finally, rioters in Richmond broke the windows of the West Broad Church of Christ, an African-American congregation. They left intact the one pane of glass reading, “Welcome”.
Some of the nationwide vandalism of churches and synagogues featured generic Black Lives Matter slogans, but some had hateful messages that were specifically targeted to the houses of worship.
The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver, a 108-year-old building, was at the center of some of the local riots, including the hit-and-run of three Denver police officers, and suffered permanent damage. The walls were also vandalized with graffiti reading, “Pedofiles” and “God is dead”.
Some of the windows of the facility were broken and the gates were badly damaged.
In Los Angeles, Congregation Beth Israel’s walls were defaced with graffiti reading, “F___ Israel” and “Free Palestine”.
Elan Carr, the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, visited the synagogue, and stated, “This graffiti is yet more evidence that anti-Zionism is Antisemitism.”
The hateful messages that defaced the Denver cathedral and the Los Angeles synagogue were leftist in ideology. They also had nothing to do with racism or any of the imaginary causes of the riots. Instead they are evidence that the radicals are settling their pre-existing grudges with churches and synagogues.
The largest sustained burst of synagogue vandalism took place in Los Angeles. The Fairfax area, home to both leftist hipsters and traditionalist Orthodox Jews, was heavily targeted by the rioters who, in addition to looting stores, defaced multiple synagogues, including the aforementioned Congregation Beth Israel, Beit Medrash Kehilat Yaakov (Congregation of Jacob), the synagogue of Rabbi Gershon Bess, the most important Jewish religious leader in the city, as well as Congregation Tiferes Tzvi and the Young Israel of Hancock Park. Three religious schools, Bais Yaakov School for Girls, Bnos Devorah High School, and Ohr Eliyahu Academy, were also vandalized.
Rioters tried to deface the Shaarei Tefila (Gates of Prayer) synagogue in the area, but members of Magen Am, a security organization protecting houses of worship, whose instructors include former IDF and Navy SEAL members, protected the synagogue from being vandalized by the leftist rioters.
Some of the ugliest graffiti was reserved for the Baba Sale synagogue of Moroccan Jewish refugees named after the Rabbi who had helped lead Moroccan Jews out of the Muslim country and to Israel.
Not only did the racist thugs spray paint “BLM” on it, but also added, “f___ pigs” and “help minorities”.
The congregation, which had reopened, is now closed.
Some of the looting and violence came as Jews were celebrating the holiday of Shavuot, which commemorates the Ten Commandments being given by God to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai. Many Jewish store owners were unaware of the pogrom being carried out against their houses of worship and businesses. And there is at least some evidence that the pogromists were deliberately targeting Jews.
A local milliner reported cars driving down the street and screaming, “F___ Jews”.
Rioters also targeted Our Lady of Mt. Lebanon-St. Peter Cathedral, a Maronite Catholic church in Los Angeles. The 83-year-old cathedral is also home to a middle eastern refugee congregation. And the Black Lives Matter bigots reminded them of the persecution that they had fled by scrawling, “Kill All Cops” and “Make America Pay for its Crimes Against Black Lives” on its iconic exterior.
In Dallas, the Saint Jude Chapel in Downtown Dallas had its windows smashed in with rocks.
“They probably didn’t even know this was a church. And that’s just some glass. Who cares,” Father Jonathan Austin insisted. “I’m with them 100 percent.”
While the Saint Jude doesn’t quite look like a traditional church, the words, “Saint Jude Catholic Chapel” above its entrance are very clear and impossible to miss.
The Cathedral of the Assumption, the fourth oldest building in Louisville, and the third oldest Catholic Cathedral in regular use in this country, suffered damage when rioters shattered the windows of its rectory. The historic building’s facade is now covered with plywood boards.
In Santa Rosa, a window in the Unitarian Universalist Congregation was smashed in.
“Clearly, he didn’t see the ‘Black Lives Matter’ banner in our window,” Rev. Chris Bell complained.
One of the more serious radical attacks on houses of worship took place in Little Rock, Arkansas when a fire at the Lewis Street Church of Christ burned through the roof.
In Minneapolis, where all the hate and rage began, the 106-year-old Basilica of Saint Mary, the first basilica in the country, suffered fire damage when a fire was started under a pew.
And in St. Paul, the Church of St. Mark was tagged with graffiti.
There are also reports that numerous other churches and synagogues have been defaced.
While the media has tried to pretend that the assault on St. John’s Episcopal Church was an accident or an aberration, the sheer number of incidents from New York City to Los Angeles make it clear that the Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots displayed a nationwide pattern of targeting houses of worship.
These attacks tried to destroy the physical symbols of faith and to demoralize people of faith.
That is what the Left has always done.
The Left infiltrates churches and synagogues, but it is its own religion. Its faith is not directed toward any power higher than government, its prayers are uttered in regulations and academic papers, its theology is practiced by smashing glass and shattering doors, and churches and synagogues have always been its targets. When its stormtroopers are loosed in the streets, they go to war against those who believe.
What happened in Washington D.C., in Los Angeles, in New York City, in Minneapolis, and in cities across America, was the latest expression of the hatred of the radicals and racists for any other belief system.
There is an inquisition in America today. And it punishes heresies, such as proclaiming that all lives matter, or believing in anything other than social justice, with social pressure, loss of work, and force.
What the theorists who would be gods hate above all else is those who reject them and believe in God.
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There are no mosques mentioned in this article. Is there a reason?
Islamists are known participants in the riots.
The Communist Origins of ANTIFA
https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-communist-origins-of-the-antifa-extremist-group_2282816.html
USSR started them in 1921 Germany to fight the Nazis. But Antifa lost. Then the Nazis lost. Then the USSR lost. And we won.
I came across a similar article the other day. I didn’t know they had been around that long. Breitbart also had an article on them. They have quite a history and still thrving!
TOMLINSON:
Europe’s Antifa History Should Serve as a Warning to America
CHRIS TOMLINSON 4 Jun 2020
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/04/tomlinson-europe-antifa-history-should-serve-warning-america/
Yes, and ALL the ANTIFA logos and flags and insignia come directly from the USSR-sponsored anti-Nazis of Germany. Soros just can’t seem to get it. The USA does not abide tyrants, and Nazis and Commies are all the same to us: the enemy.
IT’S WHY SOROS HAS BEEN TRYING TO DESTROY THE WEST SINCE WORLD WAR TWO.
Tanker: Yes, I agree, and Soros is using 1930’s tactics on 2020’s problems. Soros and ANTIFA are so dogmatic, it is easy to predict their next steps by reading the Communist Manifesto [1848]. They have not changed one iota since then.
The Antifa flag’s logo is of a black flag and a red flag flying together.
True, but they were formed to fight the Nazis in the streets of Germany.
Who Is Antifa? What You Need To Know
https://canadafreepress.com/article/who-is-antifa-what-you-need-to-know
ANTIFA were also associated w/the Communists and while they were opposed to the Nazis and fascists they had no problems w/totalitarian Communism — which ended up killing FAR, FAR more people than the Third Reich.
Rusty: Thanks!
In NYC and elsewhere they were screeching, Arab Power!
They were referring to Islam. Idiots don’t get it. They laugh at us.
Yes, Islamists like to laugh, and mock, and belittle, and dehumanize. That’s why commies like them.
You are hearing a lot of shouting about “White Supremacy,” but who will they turn to if they destroy the Constitution and Christianity and awake one morning to find Arab Supremacy? replacing it. That is what Islam is. In the early days of Christianity female children were often left to die by the Romans Christianity raised women. What will happen?
Muslims are known to be dedicated to the vile ideology of the Dem Party, i.e., Dem voters!
Since criminalists study crime, do islamists study islam?
YEAH, THEY’RE EXEMPT FROM DESTRUCTION. A PROTECTED CLASS OR SPECIES SO TO SPEAK.
Yes. There are a number of articles that the protesters targeted only Jewish and Christian churches. Mosques were not to be vandalized and Muslim prayer services were not to be disturbed.
buy a gun, these people will come for you someday
I have plenty with tons of ammo and I’m allowed to use them.
Disqus is censoring again
So is Fox. Fox immediately deletes anything I post. I’ve never posted anything racist or hateful, but all my comments are now poofed.
You will do better on Geller Report
More Cult hypocrite propaganda. Ask yourselves why don’t these cowardly fanatics guard their own buildings? I see my insurance rates went up. And so will your naive asses.
It’s a miracle. All the Synagogues and Churches being vandalized and burnt not one Mosque or Madrassa was touched?
They were off limits.
Leonine prayers are needed now more then ever.
He’s not dead. He is watching. He maybe dead to them to others because they freely reject Him but he is alive to believers. To state He is dead, acknowledges His existence. To deny Him does the same.
God has the big picture. Those that remain steadfast will have the reward of an eternal lifetime with Him and those that deny Him will have the eternal punishment of separation from Him.
Belief is always a choice!
Your will vs His will.
Look forward to seeing you in heaven one of these days.
Well well, strangely they did not attack moskes(sic) or claim Allah is dead…
ANYONE NOTICE THE FACT THAT THEY DIDN’T GO AFTER ISLAMIC MOSQUE !!!!!! ANYONE ????
So the POS feral animal yard ape criminals are too afraid to touch a mosque aren’t they?!!!! Time to shoot all of these moronic criminal libturds as soon as they start any crap!
Fear had nothing to do with it. Mosques were off limits and Muslim prayer services were not to be disturbed. There are a number of articles that detail this.
why do they pander to muzzies they would soon kill you in the name of Ali.
FOOLS!!!!
President Trump holding a Bible has them even more determined to get him out of office.
I wonder who they hate more, God Almighty, the Bible or President Trump.
All three, but all that is happening is a direct product of the elitists hate for Trump. He is in their way to fulfill their agenda of a new world order and he is in their way.
Since we can see just how many sheeple they can lead by the nose and control, it is high time we prepare if the next election is taken by fraud.
You think it is bad now? Just wait till they come after us with new laws banning conservative thinking and capitalistic living.
God’s Not Dead: This is what drives the left mad. They want no religion but hey they are SOL, God Is alive and well, Amen.
But no mosques???
The leftist Demo☭rats made a deal with the islamists. The muslims told them that they would not be killed………until last!
Foisted on their own petard again. The Jewish intellectuals who created Cultural Marxism and ran it out of synagogues all over the world are now crying over a few broken windows? More likely they’re relieved for the smokescreen. If they appear to also be targets and victims of the hellstorm they unleashed with their rabid anti-white, anti-Christian agenda, maybe no one will know who was behind it all from the beginning. And Daniel Green is the first among Messiah Deniers. When it comes to evil, Hitler has nothing on you, sir.
The real culprits are Talmudic/Satanic Jews.