Approximately 25 people have died due to a tornado hitting Tennessee. It even hit the Church of the Assumption in Nashville. The building didn’t make it.

Mark Cassman, a parishioner at Church of the Assumption, shared images of the damage on his Facebook page. His pictures show that several of the church’s stained glass windows were partially destroyed in the storm, and as well as damage caused to the building by rocks thrown by the tornado. “Mass cannot be held here for a while,” said Cassman. “It’s bad.” The parish’s high altar sustained minimal damage in the storm, although the area of the church located near the side altar was littered with debris.

Really awful stuff.

But don’t worry. The priest salvaged the only thing that mattered even as the building appeared on the verge of collapse.

Despite the dark, the possibility of more tornadoes, and the danger of the bell tower falling through the roof, [Fr. S. Bede] Price went inside the church to rescue the Blessed Sacrament reserved in the tabernacle. “Father was worried that the church might collapse, and so he removed the Blessed Sacrament,” a spokesperson for the Church of the Assumption told LifeSiteNews. … “I was afraid the church would collapse. I was particularly afraid the bell-tower would collapse, so I took the Blessed Sacrament out of the church and went out into the street,” he continued.

He saved a cracker.

The building was about to come down and he thought the wise move was retrieving a cracker.

Whenever you do that thought experiment about what you would save if your home was on fire, I promise you no one in their right mind would elevate food to the top of the list, but for this Catholic leader, a mythical piece of Jesus needed protection from God’s fury. Or something like that.

Only with religion would you risk life and limb for a wafer. The kind of wafer you can just buy more of at a store.

Even the church’s Instagram account praised his actions:

… Praise God Father Price was able to safely remove Jesus from the tabernacle even during a violent tornado…

I’m glad he’s not injured. But what he did was neither a miracle nor an act of bravery. It’s just idiotic. Had he suffered, he would be receiving a Darwin Award.

Meanwhile — and I repeat — more than two dozen people are dead because of this disaster, which the priest presumably believes God controls.

(Featured image via Facebook. Thanks to Kerri for the link)

