STORM2K

We have two stories developing at this hour...one is that a historic church in Dayton, KY has burnt to the ground, according to Channel 9 WCPO News. Around 10am, smoke from the First Baptist Church of Dayton could be seen from Cincinnati. The building is a near total loss. Also, a car has blown up here in Florence. It happened in the last hour on the corner of Oblique Street and Center St, according to my brother Mark. There is no report of injuries as of this time.

Uh oh.. I actually belong to 1 of the 1st Baptist branches down here.. Sad to hear the church burned down

Hopefully the car that blew up wasn't anything too alarming

Was that a pun John ? Car-Alarming ?

I hope there was no one in the church at the time of the fire..

Loosing the church is bad enough without adding the loss of life on top of it.....

LOL.. I'm actually in the university library trying not too laugh about that "car alarming" thing lol

Yes.. losing the church is a sad thing..

I should be clear that there was no loss of life in either incident, so some good news there. And just for the record, I am about 1.5 blocks from that car that exploded.

Glad to hear there was no loss of life or seriouse injury......

hmm..................

Don't tell me...it's the Catholics trying to take over the world again, right?

What? Because a church burned down? Usually it's always a church for a predominantly black congregation that burns down and it becomes a racist issue not a religious issue.

WHOA...calm down! SS I clearly posted what happened to the building...and BTW it was a baptist church...like what I belong to...

It was likely started by workers on the roof with a blowtorch, 9News is now reporting.

Sad!!!!!

You guys....you can't tell when I'm joking?

Bill - I can tell you're joking.

But I guess when a church, an old historic one at that, burns down, well it's not a laughing matter. Sorry, JMO.

BTW Jeremy, my brother Gerry and his wife live just a few blocks from this church. They hosted xmas this past year and we all remarked how beautiful this church was as we drove by. All stone and stained glass windows.

Blow torches.....should be outlawed! My husband's house growing up caught fire b/c a plumber was trying to thaw frozen pipes with one, during the winter of 77. As soon as we heard this news story and what caused it, Jim just groaned and sighed.

Mary

How very sad. Think of all the people who were baptized and married in that church. OMG All those memories. God does have a plan. Keep the faith.

For those interested, I found links for articles and photo's of this fire.

http://www.cincynow.com/news/2004/local ... hurch.html

Sorry, I just didn't understand the attack on Catholics and I didn't get that it was a joke.

If someone asks what religion I am, my answer is usually simply "Christian." I'm concerned more about my faith and less about religious doctrine. I was raised Catholic (as mentioned in another post) and I did gain a lot from that as well as from attending Baptist, Methodist, and other protestant Christian churches. But I know some people tend to have their stereotypes against Catholics and tend to question their thinking when they attack me personally because of my upbringing. The worst case was when some members of a cult tried to tell me my baptism was invalid because I was baptized "in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" and not "in the Name of Jesus."

Sorry about misunderstanding, Bill. You just hit a nerve and I mis-reacted.