(Fox News) — Deputies in Tennessee are investigating after racial slurs and graphic images of male genitalia were spray-painted on a church this week.

Pastor James Mitchell of Napier Pentecostal Church in Hohenwald, Tenn., about 60 miles southwest of Nashville, told Fox News that he discovered the graffiti when he arrived at the church on Wednesday afternoon.

Mitchell said swastikas, explicit images of male genitalia, racial slurs and other phrases had been spray-painted on the outside of the building.

“Written on our back door was ‘There is no God’ and below that they wrote the letter ‘U’ with a heart below that and below that was a male genitalia drawing,” Mitchell said, describing some of the vandalism.

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