There is at least one good thing about the coronavirus pandemic: For anybody who is paying attention and has a properly functioning mind, the anti-social lunacy of too many believers is now in plain sight.
Some Megachurches Are Still Packing In Crowds
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.
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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.
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The pastor [Howard-Browne] 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.
You might think that a seminary graduate would have enough sense, or aversion to looking like a fool, to know he isn’t competent to hold a meaningful opinion about the transmissibility and severity of a new virus. You’d be wrong. I wouldn’t care much if the idiots who listen to these fools harmed only themselves; after all, Darwinian natural selection applies to homo sapiens, too. Unfortunately, they also harm the trusting bystanders in their life.
UPDATE: Hillsborough County, Florida, has issued an arrest warrant for Pastor Howard-Browne.