Letting your fury drag you down the wrong path:
First, the church fought social distancing orders. Then it was burned down to the ground.
And on Thursday, authorities investigating the blaze at First Pentecostal Church said they found an alarming message scrawled on the small-town Mississippi chapel.
“Bet you stay home now you hypokrites,” the graffiti read.
Just weeks after the house of worship held indoor gatherings with dozens of people — and then sued to keep authorities out — it now finds itself enveloped in a mystery that has baffled residents of Holly Springs, a town of 7,600. [WaPo, well down the page]
Neither the church nor the arsonist is right in what they’ve done, but the arsonist is far, far worse, because he (or she, although how many female arsonists do you know?) in encouraging violence from both sides. The church, if it ran its indoor service improperly, would be a self-correcting situation, and sometimes people need that slap upside the head. Their drive-in option, for which the Governor should have (and maybe did later) permitted, seems eminently reasonable.
But the disappointment is for the idiot arsonist. Violence begets violence, and that’s the last thing this nation needs.
