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Churches Under Assault From Hateful Vandals In Santa Cruz

June 09, 2006

Vandals continue to desecrate churches in the moonbat haven of Santa Cruz, California - where separately, the long-standing campaign to "Keep Santa Cruz Weird" has finally provoked a counter-reaction from families who want the city "safe and clean" instead. An atmosphere of common decency would help to start, but that may be asking too much. Tuesday June 6, 2006, parishoners of Holy Cross Catholic Church in Santa Cruz arrived for morning mass to find 10 carefully stenciled painted graffiti images on the building, including the phrases "666" and "Christian Holocaust." It's being investigated by police as a possible hate crime, and is part of a larger campaign of intimidation and property damage to churches in Santa Cruz. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports:

Multiple incidents of vandalism have been reported at a half-dozen Santa Cruz churches this year, including an attack that greeted Easter worshippers at Santa Cruz Missionary Baptist Church. In February, vandals used a stencil to leave specially crafted messages and images about a half-foot across on Holy Cross, Messiah Lutheran, High Street Community, First Congregational and Calvary Episcopalian. One compared a cross to a swastika. Also struck were the Agnus Dei Christian bookstore on Cedar Street and the Santa Cruz Mission Adobe park, which is near Holy Cross. Two of those sites had also been vandalized in October, police said.

The Sentinel reports today that a Holy Cross parishoner is offering a $5,000 reward for information on who is responsible for the damage discovered Tuesday. The story also notes that even street signs in Santa Cruz are being disfigured with anti-Christian grafitti as well.

Holy Cross Rev. Mark Stetz called Tuesday's vandalism the worst he's seen in five years. "To me, this is just getting too close to home," said Bethke, adding he found an inverted cross painted on a street sign near his house during a spate of church vandalism earlier this year.

If a mosque or mosques in any metropolitan region of the U.S. had been subject to the same sort of attacks as have churches in Santa Cruz, the story would already have been all over the mainstream media. That this anti-Christian harrassment is happening in notoriously leftist Santa Cruz seems hardly a coincidence. It will backfire in the end; and I can't help wondering if it's not all part of His plan.

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Comments:

Didn't we just go through something like this with a string of church burnings in Alabama?

There, if I remember correctly, the culprits turned out to be neither racists (the church members were mostly black) nor anti-Christians, but just your run-of-the-mill juvenile delinquents. Despite the apparent anti-Christian nature of this vandalism, how do we know that something of the same sort is not going on here as well?

In any case, both the community and the police seem to be anxious to suppress it. I am far more worried about the revival of anti-Semitism in Europe, especially France, where one poor boy in Paris was even tortured to death. Apart from one brief notice in a Wall Street Journal editorial, I have seen very little in the press about this much more serious incident.

Posted by: Tom Rekdal at June 9, 2006 02:46 PM
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