You may have thought something like this to yourself over the past couple of weeks: “Maybe there’s a bright side. Maybe this coronavirus stuff is like a slap in the face to the Evangelical Right nutjobs and, with something real to worry about, they won’t be such godawful nuisances.”
No. They’re still crazy, still nuisances.
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Roy Moore, who lost a special Senatorial election in Alabama, is now defending a pastor who won’t suspend church services just because of that pesky coronavirus ‘hoax.’
Roy Moore, the former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice and two-time U.S. Senate candidate, will serve as an adviser for a Central pastor, and his church, during expected litigation over the religious leader’s defiance of state orders limiting public gatherings to control the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Moore and the Rev. Tony Spell said Moore would represent Spell and the church, though it isn’t clear yet in what capacity. Moore is a licensed lawyer in Alabama but isn’t licensed to practice law in Louisiana.
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It’s confusing to me and hard to follow, but it seems that if a coronavirus vaccine is developed it will actually be used to let Satan know who is willing to accept the Mark of the Beast.
Right-wing pastor Curt Landry posted a video on YouTube on Tuesday in which he told viewers never to accept any vaccine that is created to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus because the vaccine will be a precursor to the biblical Mark of the Beast.
“Do not pray, do not hope, do not think, ‘Oh, praise God they are going to have a vaccine,’” Landry said. “That vaccine is from the pit of Hell. Do not pray for those vaccines, and do not take the vaccine. These vaccines are going to be coming, they are not going to be good. They’re not good for you physically, and spiritually, they’re a set-up for what shall come later.”
My own inclination is to avoid respiratory failure now and take my chances with the Beast later, but maybe I’d feel differently about that if I weren’t so wicked.
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Apparently, Godly pastors in Europe are idiots, just like here, and raking in the bucks while simultaneously endangering their congregations.
A pastor whose church service has been blamed for sparking a huge wave of Covid-19 infections in France apologised today as countries across Europe continued to struggle to slow the rising death toll from the disease.
Thiebault Geyer said he wanted to say “sorry to God for my selfishness” after officials confirmed that around 2,500 of his parishioners have contracted coronavirus.
At least 17 of those have died after a mass outbreak of the virus among the thousands who attended a week-long gathering at the pastor’s Christian Open Door church in the eastern city of Mulhouse in February.
I admit that stories like this puzzle me. Wouldn’t you think that Our Invisible Friend would throw a sort of protective blanket over church gatherings, exploiting the opportunity to demonstrate to skeptics that He looks after the faithful?
But … nope. He lets ’em get mowed down, with the result that coronavirus’ lethality is experienced by proportionally more of the Pious than the wicked. Truly, His Ways are Mysterious.
Amen.