2007-07-18 00:02:11 · 17 answers · asked by Bad Liberal 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes God gave us brains...and this has been done many times..
2007-07-18 00:10:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am an athiest, but the Catholic church that I was raised in had a pretty tall metal cross for a steeple, and given the number of storms we have and how long it's been there, it must have gotten hit a few times.
Actually I saw it get hit when I was in middle school there; I had to go outside to take down the flag because I was flag guard and you're not allowed to let the american flag get wet. But since it was raining really hard and there was a lot of wind, and lightening struck the steeple about fifty feet away when I was taking down the flag from the big metal pole next to the pine tree (I kid you not!) I decided "Screw it, I am not getting fried because my teacher is a flag nut." and ran back inside. It's still a little frightening seven years later.
I am rambling, sorry, but the point is that the place I used to worship has a ton of lightening targets, and that includes sixth graders sometimes.
2007-07-18 07:13:56 · answer #2 · answered by Rat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since I am an atheist, I do not have a place of worship. I did want to tell a story though about an Episcopalian church I used to work at. I was a Montessori pre-school teacher there. One day there was a terrific thunderstorm. A bolt of lightening hit the church and knocked down the large stone cross over the front door of the church! It shattered all over the sidewalk. Maybe it was Zeus!
2007-07-18 07:08:36 · answer #3 · answered by in a handbasket 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is there. Even before Frankling discovered lightening arrester, oldest temples had this. You can see a pointed metal decoration on the sanctum sanctoram. It is not only placed as a decoration, but an 8mm copper bar is connected to it and is earthed in a small tank, just behind the idol inside "Garbhagriha".
2007-07-18 07:11:35 · answer #4 · answered by Surettan S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't looked but I will check for that. There is a steeple and some antennas for the audio equipment though. I suppose in a really bad storm it wouldn't matter the lightening could hit one of the antennas just as easily. Oh yes, I do get what you are inferring by the way.
2007-07-18 07:07:35 · answer #5 · answered by Only hell mama ever raised 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A place of worship is just a focal point for the aspirant to start from. Destroyal of such a place by a bolt of lightning does not mean destroyal of That Which is worshipped.
Destroyal of a place of one religion does not mean negation of that or that the 'Right One' sent the bolt to eliminate a false one.
2007-07-18 08:19:47 · answer #6 · answered by A.V.R. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but if I go within fifty feet of a church, I get struck by lightning. Does that count?
2007-07-18 08:52:09 · answer #7 · answered by CrankyYankee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would god strike down with lightning, a building made to house his worshipers if they were truly in the right about god?
God wouldn't do that, would he? ;)
2007-07-18 08:31:56 · answer #8 · answered by hypno_toad1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um, most Jews don't think that God "specially protects" synagogue buildings. They're just buildings.
2007-07-18 07:12:41 · answer #9 · answered by Cathy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
one of the nearby orthodox churches has an icon that protects the building from fire. i wonder if they took the smoke alarm out since they don't need it anymore?
2007-07-18 07:09:07 · answer #10 · answered by vorenhutz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they don't need one their God will protect from becoming a chicken grill
2007-07-18 10:01:35 · answer #11 · answered by secret &trade 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋