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Totally sane Pastor packs his church to capacity with worshipers [Update: Arrested]
- Thread starter MinusTydus
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Thank you for posting. The "pastors" who do acts like this aren't doing GOD's work. More like Satan's.
Because the people who came here and populated the place were the ones kicked out of Europe for being too crazy. The ones who see "come work on the glorious outworld colonies" propaganda in dystopian sci-fi movies and think that's a great idea. The people who are very interested in that bridge you are selling.
Christianity in these heavy red states essentially are death cults.
The thing is, not really. The branches that these people are usually descended from are Baptists, Pentecostals, and the like, i.e. people who were themselves exiled from New England due to being too moderate for the Puritans, whose own descendants are more likely to take this deadly seriously. One thing these groups do tend to have in common, however, is splitting with their mainline denominations over the issues of slavery and civil rights, even if they hide that history these days.
The confirmation bias of the church is its deadliest weapon.
"Come in here (with 10% of your earnings) and jesus will protect you. If you live, it's because Jesus protected you. If you die, it's also because Jesus protected you.
"Come in here (with 10% of your earnings) and jesus will protect you. If you live, it's because Jesus protected you. If you die, it's also because Jesus protected you.
Hmmm the Bible is pretty explicit about people dying from disease requiring personal and specific help and intercession from Jesus, not his enthusiasts.
There's also various instructions about cleanliness and disease as well as admonitions to not trivialize or rely on God to do everything for you.
Jesus is all about common sense in life and government too:
Matthew 12:11 is about not simply waiting for God to fix your problems:
Then He said to them, "What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out?
And Leviticus even advises 14 day self quarantine.
There's also various instructions about cleanliness and disease as well as admonitions to not trivialize or rely on God to do everything for you.
Jesus is all about common sense in life and government too:
Matthew 12:11 is about not simply waiting for God to fix your problems:
Then He said to them, "What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out?
And Leviticus even advises 14 day self quarantine.
Just another local branch of the GOP/jeebus death cult.
If you want to seal the roads coming out of any state, start with this one.
If you want to seal the roads coming out of any state, start with this one.
We Scots did it one better - holding services in the fields!
Covenanters - Wikipedia
The term "social distancing" should be changed though. We shouldn't be isolating from others, as technology allows us some degree of social interaction, even during quarantine. It should be rebranded as physical distancing.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...s-pack-in-crowds-amid-covid-19-warning-flares
Congregants of megachurches in Louisiana, Ohio and Florida attended services in defiance of social distancing orders on Sunday morning, even as politicians and doctors took to weekly news shows to warn of coronavirus's spread in the U.S.
In Louisiana, which has seen a spike in cases and has a shelter-in-place order, the Life Tabernacle Church in the town of Central held services at 10 a.m. More than 550 parishioners attended, about half as many as the week before, pastor Tony Spell told a local news reporter.
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Pastor Spell told local news outlet NBC15 earlier this month that he didn't believe his congregation was in danger of infection. "It's not a concern," he said. "The virus, we believe, is politically motivated. We hold our religious rights dear and we are going to assemble no matter what someone says." The church did not respond to request for comment.
The River Church in Tampa, Florida, also held services this Sunday. Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne posted a livestream of the services on YouTube, showing the sizable crowd. Howard-Browne said attendees were practicing "social distancing, or whatever" though the crowd appeared to be dense.
"We are not a non-essential service," Howard-Browne said during the service. "You're probably going to get infected at some other place, not here."
The pastor condemned scientific reports about the virus and said that the pandemic was of less concern than the flu, a view that medical experts have disputed. The church did not respond to a request for comment.
Solid Rock Church in Lebanon, Ohio, with 3,500 members by one recent count, held services Sunday in defiance of a letter from the local health department urging it not to meet, according to a local news report. The church, in a statement, cited its first amendment right to religious assembly.
Exactly what I came here to say, fuck that pastor for 'further' exploiting his congregation.
Ah, the age old question: Why do churches have lightning rods?
He and his wife founded their own church. So they kinda decide who is in charge.
Now how come people are allowed to just "found their own church" is a mystery to me. Something something freedom of speach
Still first amendment but freedom of religion and the establishment clause. The US was founded by religious deviants and thus doesn't want anyone in charge of deciding what's a legit religion and what's not.
A virus is an inefficient way to kill yourself. These people should consider more expedient methods if they're so desperate to meet their imaginary daddy.
Ah yes, because there has certainly never been any of these kind of issues in Roman Catholicism. Nope. Definitely never had any sort of mysticism, or reliance on things like holy relics to miraculously heal.
This crazy group of people in Florida has essentially nothing in common with Reformation groups, especially the Puritans and the Huguenots which you seem to be referring to.
These are the kind of people think that going to church on Sunday is more important than being alive. They'd rather spread this death and kill untold amounts of people just so they can go every Sunday. They don't fucking care. They are selfish and willfully dangerous pieces of shit.
Yeah there are a lot of weird prerequisites that people think are required to make you holier, as though if you're broke and don't travel then you're shit out of luck for getting into heaven, or that the pope gains powers as part of being elected
Well, all these imbeciles can just get what's coming to them. Too bad they spread all their virulence, literal and metaphorical, to innocents that don't deserve their putrid vile infection.
Yep. There are plenty of other ways of showing your faith other than doing what is proven to harm others. Stuff like this is such a bad idea, especially so when other Churches are doing it online.
I only care about the kids that were dragged in, and the people not in that church who will later be exposed to these dipshits.
If it were just going to hurt the adults attending, I can't say I'd care. Since it's a pandemic and these people will be spreading it, it's not only upsetting, but it's potentially a death sentence for other people. Stupidity knows no bounds.
You can say let them face the consequences but it's baked into their ideology that it strengthens their resolve. The only way is to treat them as terrorists waging viral warfare, if they have no respect for fellow citizens they can all be locked up until they are no longer a threat.
I mean just to clarify this even further, this is what Martin Luther had to say when plague broke out in Wittenberg in 1527:
That sounds pretty awesome.
Holy shit, the contrast showing where the county line is. Just... wow.
You know what maybe Trump is right to give florida 200% of what they asked for in federal resources