Seventh-Day Adventist churchgoers killed by lightning

[CapnAwesome]

A lightning strike killed at least 16 people and injured dozens more at a Seventh-Day Adventist church in Rwanda on Saturday, an official said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-43362508

So.... the all seeing, all knowing, all powerful god had a day off, or maybe he just dislikes some people!

7th day Adventists believe they are destined to go extinct as a religion and that when there are no more 7th day Adventists that will be the start of the end times.

[Minimalist]

The position of that toga is very provocative.  Moved a little.

You know those Greeks.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The position of that toga is very provocative.  Moved a little.

You know those Greeks.

Perhaps too well...

[LastPoet]

Lel. If wit wasn't for those lightning rods.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I giveth the finger and taketh it away.

[Shell B]

That's sad.

[brewer]

A lightning strike killed at least 16 people and injured dozens more at a Seventh-Day Adventist church in Rwanda on Saturday, an official said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-43362508

So.... the all seeing, all knowing, all powerful god had a day off, or maybe he just dislikes some people!

7th day Adventists believe they are destined to go extinct as a religion   and that when there are no more 7th day Adventists that will be the start of the end times.

There is no extinct, only dirt nap.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

A certain number of believers MUST BE killed for their faith before Yeshua returns. He demands it. So it doesn't get any better than to get whacked in church. It's like winning the cosmic lottery. Imagine being the magic number and then Yeshua comes in on the clouds with his horde of murdering angels. Wouldn't that be something to see?

It appears that the ones who were not zapped may not be true believers.

[Succubus]

"They're with Jesus now."

I wonder if they ever meet their brethren from the GMIMW Brescia explosion and compare notes?

What you in for then?

"Well I was in church praising our all loving god when suddenly there was this flash, and here I am."

And you?

" Well I was in church damming and cursing to all hell this bloke who claims to have a repellent for the demon fire that electrocutes our bell ringers and destroys our churches, and when suddenly there was this flash, and here I am."

When we find the answer as to why people would seek refuge in a lightening storm, in a  building containing fifty tons of gunpowder, then we will know more about the universe than we do now.

[Minimalist]

On August 18, 1769, the city of Brescia in northern Italy was devastated when the Bastion of San Nazaro was struck by lightning. The resulting fire ignited about 90,000 kg (or about 200,000 lb) of gunpowder stored there by the Republic of Venice, causing a massive explosion.

Fucking Venetians had piss poor luck with that sort of thing.  They also blew up the Parthenon in Athens because the fucking Turks filled it with gunpowder.