Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. Christian shutdowns, layoffs and Rapture oddities for the Gregorian (western christian calendar) month of February 2018.
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Arizona: In Phoenix, a man arrested and accused of threatening to shoot-up the North Valley Romanian Pentecostal Church.
California: Baptist co-founded JCPenney shutting down its Calexico store by mid-May. Catholic founded Jackson National Life Insurance laid off 161 people in El Segundo, admitting the layoff was planned back in August 2017! God powerless to stop ‘his’ Adventist Health Bakersfield from eliminating 177 jobs by April! Adventist Health White Memorial eliminating 160 Los Angeles jobs by April! Marijuana fueled church called Sacred Source Sanctuary suing the city of San Diego after a police raid caused at least $70-thousand USD in damage, arrested several people and even stole the church’s security cameras. San Diego leaders say the church did not have a marijuana license.
Colorado: Catholic founded Jackson National Life Insurance shutting down its 20 years old tech center in Denver, 370 jobs gone! A former youth program leader at Crossroads Community Church arrested and accused of sex crimes.
Florida: Saints Peter & Paul Catholic School, in Miami, fired a teacher for marrying a person of the same sex. In Saint Petersburg, Catholic founded (by the same guy who founded evil Bank of America) Transamerica Life Insurance eliminating 465 jobs by mid-April! In Tampa, Catholic founded Jackson National Life Insurance eliminating 41 jobs mid-March. Somebody shot and killed the driver for the Saint Columbkille Church Thrift Store. Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office announced they arrested a man suspected of setting fire to several churches.
Georgia: Methodist co-founded Coca Cola eliminating even more jobs, this time an additional 350 corporate level jobs! At the same time Coca Cola administrators swear they are hiring. Somebody shot and killed a young man in the parking lot of the Big Miller Grove Missionary Baptist Church.
Illinois: Baptist co-founded JCPenney shutting down its Sandburg Mall location by mid-May. God ‘allowed’ the steeple of the Salvation and Deliverance Ministries International Church to burn down.
Indiana: Presbyterian founded Walmart issued a shutdown WARN for its store in Rushville, 95 jobs gone by mid-April.
Iowa: God powerless to stop ‘his’ liberal Graceland University from suddenly laying off 19 people, and more layoffs are expected because student enrollment is expected to continue crashing for the next ten years (The Rapture?). Catholic founded (by the same guy who founded evil Bank of America) Transamerica Life Insurance eliminating 863 Cedar Rapids jobs by mid-April!
Maryland: In Baltimore, Catholic founded (by the same guy who founded evil Bank of America) Transamerica Life Insurance eliminating 55 jobs by mid-April.
Massachusetts: Church of the Incomparable God-Iglesia El Dios Incomparable in Holyoke shutdown after bad weather (god?) caused a tower to collapse.
Michigan: In Wayne, god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ 93 years old (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Saint Mary Catholic School due to $5-million USD of debt caused by crashing enrollments (down 243 students since the 2010-11 school year). The Jehovah’s Witnesses accused of causing the murder-suicide of a family in Keego Harbor, through the church’s infamous practice of shunning. In Detroit, god powerless to stop the demolition of ‘his’ more than 1-hundred years old First Latin American Baptist Church, to make way for a bridge.
Minnesota: Baptist co-founded JCPenney shutting down its Viking Plaza location by mid-May.
Missouri: Baptist co-founded JCPenney shutting down its Hampton Village Plaza location by mid-May. A burglar hit the Most Sacred Heart Church in Eureka, he was caught on camera, but not by police.
Montana: Once again, the city of Whitefish denied a request by Fresh Life Church to build a church in the Old Town retail district. Apparently residents, and even business owners, oppose the church plan.
Nebraska: Presbyterian-agnostic Warren Buffet’s Omaha based Berkshire Hathaway Gained $29 Billion from the New Tax Law. Methodist Hospital halting home health and hospice services in March, affecting 40 jobs.
Nevada: In Las Vegas, an LDS official told Mormons that there is no such thing as unconditional love: “…what does the adversary do? He attacks us through our appetites. He tempts us to eat things we should not eat, to drink things we should not drink, and to love as we should not love.“-Russell M. Nelson
New Hampshire: A now former teacher at the Episcopal Saint Paul’s School arrested for interfering with investigations into accusations that he committed sex crimes with students for years.
New Mexico: In Las Cruces, a man walked into the Saint Genevieve Church waving a gun, which turned out to be an orange colored toy gun, police say he was intoxicated.
New Jersey: Presbyterian founded Walmart shutting down its Route 22 Readington (Branchburg) store, 149 jobs gone by mid-April, due to “financial performance”! Baptist co-founded JCPenney shutting down its Garden State Plaza store by mid-May.
New York: A funeral at the New Hope Baptist Church, in Niagara Falls, turned into a fist fight requiring the attention of the police. Presbyterian founded PepsiCo eliminating 2-hundred corporate level InfoTech and finance jobs in Westchester, as part of its global plan to kill jobs. Local news media revealed that PepsiCo (Pepsi, Frito-Lay, Tropicana, Gatorade, Quaker) was getting $4-million USD in state taxpayer funded credits and another $7-million from sales-tax breaks in Westchester County!
North Carolina: “Like a thief in the night.” In Greenville, Maranatha Church was burgled of almost $2-thousand USD of electronic equipment. Charlotte based, Presbyterian founded, retailer Belk suddenly laid off 58 managers across the U.S. Christian founded (denomination not specified) Madison based gun maker Remington now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to crashing sales and a ass-hole lawsuit blaming it for school shootings. Evangelist Billy Graham finally died, in true violation of the 1st Amendment he was spiritual advisor to every U.S. president from Truman to Obama, regardless of their christian denomination.
Ohio: Members of Saint Sebastian Catholic Church now begging Catholic leaders in Vatican to stop the planned demolition of their 161 years old church.
Oklahoma: God powerless to stop ‘his’ Saint Gregory’s University from going chapter 7 bankrupt dead, after a failed attempt to get a taxpayer funded loan from the USDA, 110 jobs gone, 550 students now looking for a new home! Baptist co-founded JCPenney shutting down its Washington Park Mall store by mid-May.
Oregon: Lutheran founded Nordstrom shutting down its 37 years old store in the Salem Center Mall, 130 jobs gone by April! God powerless to stop ‘his’ Adventist Medical Center from eliminating 157 jobs in Portland!
Pennsylvania: Quaker founded, Cincinnati based Macy’s issued a shutdown WARN for its Homestead store, 94 jobs gone by mid-April. In Exton, Catholic founded (by the same guy who founded evil Bank of America) Transamerica Life Insurance outsourcing 192 jobs by mid-April! Administrators claim in-house employees were offered jobs with the contractor at the same pay, having personally experienced outsourcing of some of my past jobs I find that hard to believe.
In the city of Newfoundland, Korean founded World Peace and Unification Sanctuary held a Commitment Ceremony involving assault rifles, and other guns, saying the gun represents god’s ‘Rod of Iron’ against evil . Maybe they forgot this Bible verse: “But I am saying to you, you shall not rise up against an evil person, but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him also the other.”-Matthew 5:39 Aramaic Bible
Tennessee: In Knoxville, after 42 years Cedar Springs Christian Store shutting down when the inventory is gone, the owners saying “…we don’t get the people in the stores like we used to. If you don’t get ’em in you can’t make it.” Maybe god meant for the internet to take your customers away from you? A man was arrested, allegedly for threatening to shoot-up the Emanual Baptist Church in Heron.
Texas: Amarillo police respond to a church shooting, end up shooting the man who disarmed the church shooter! God ‘allowed’ the Saint Jude Baptist Church in Fort Worth to be destroyed by fire.
Utah: Russell M. Nelson, the new leader of the world’s largest Mormon organization known as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), proved his ignorance of U.S. gun laws when he stated that U.S. gun laws “allow guns to go to people who shouldn’t have them.” That’s flat wrong! The problem is that existing laws are not being enforced, which has been proven over and over. Does this suggest the once pro-gun LDS church is about to go anti-2nd Amendment?
Washington: Baptist co-founded JCPenney shutting down its Cascade Mall store by mid-May.
Wisconsin: Catholic founded Jackson National Life Insurance laid off an additional 23 employees in Appleton. Baptist co-founded JCPenney shutting down its customer service and distribution center in Wauwatosa, 670 jobs gone by Summer!
U.S. Christian Rapture, January 2018: “GOD’S PLAN -A- FOR REACHING A LOST WORLD.”
“No man can work for two masters, for either he will hate one and will love the other, or he will honor one and the other he will ignore. You cannot work for God and for money.”-Matthew 6:24, Aramaic Bible
“But the root of all these evils is the love of money, and there are some who have desired it and have erred from the faith and have brought themselves many miseries.”-1 Timothy 6:10 Aramaic Bible
“And Yeshua [Jesus of Nazareth] entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. And he said to them, It is written: ‘My house will be called the House of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers.’ “-Matthew 21:12-13 Aramaic Bible
“Yeshua said to them, ‘Give what is Caesar’s to Caesar and what is God’s to God.’ And they marveled at him.”-Mark 12:17 Aramaic Bible
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.-1st Amendment, U.S. Constitution
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Former employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance (or even be counted as unemployed): “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”