A Mother’s Day church service held in violation of California’s coronavirus public health orders resulted in the exposure of over 180 people to the virus.
I don’t really care about the worshipers who might get infected for breaking public health orders. That’s just culling the herd. But just think of all the innocent people those worshipers might infect.
“I didn’t feel like the decision we made was irresponsible, and can I tell you, we still don’t,” Jacobsen said.
…because my heart is in the right place. My desires for the people of God and those who do not yet know God is in the right place.
Doesn’t get it and doesn’t care to, either. Just like Rump, he doesn’t think he did anything wrong because he did what he wanted to do therefore that has to be right. Total narcissist who thinks other people are just props in his world.
If the government was telling churches that they could not hold services because they didn’t want people to worship God or say the name of Jesus, then churches should not obey it. The Constitution protects the rights of worshippers to not have governmental interference when it comes to who, what or how we worship (and how we respect the rights of those who choose not to worship).
But if the government is telling your church not to meet together because doing so would create a health crisis that would cause undue harm to your congregation as well as over-burden the health care facilities of your area, then the wise thing to do is follow the directives. They are not saying you can’t worship; they are saying that you will have to find ways to worship that will not harm other people. For those who maintain that “We should obey God rather than men”, the Scriptures also say in Romans 13:1-2, “Everyone is to obey the governing authorities. For there is no authority that is not from God, and the existing authorities have been placed where they are by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities is resisting what God has instituted; and those who resist will bring judgment upon themselves.”
This pastor should have placed the needs of his flock, and the clear directives of his local authorities, above his supposed need to have in-person corporate worship. The pastor is supposed to be a shepherd, and a shepherd always protects the flock even at the risk of his own life and comforts.
Oh, and I’ll just leave this tidbit right here…
COVID-19 isn’t going anywhere for quite a while, guys. Those irresponsible scum who insist on “liberating” their State? Assume that all of them are infected and act accordingly.
Gotta keep that sweet, sweet collection plate revenue coming in.
A Mother’s Day church service held in violation of California’s coronavirus public health orders resulted in the exposure of over 180 people to the virus…where a person with lab-confirmed COVID-19 attended.
Sue Pastor Jim Jones into oblivion on behalf of the public.
Then jail the bastard who knowingly and willfully exposed others to his or her deadly disease.
And throw away the key.
My county here in Wisconsin was in the single and very low double digits for the last two months.
Today we’re at 48 confirmeds. Word on the street is that an apartment complex in River Falls, across the interstate from us (and home to a satellite campus of U Wisc.) had 11 confirmed diagnoses over the weekend.
Guess this is gonna ramp up around here, despite any of the better efforts.
Oh, yeah, and this happened too:
The block that appears blank on this photo (above Explore and Enjoy**is where the governor’s name is plaqued. Someone removed it over the weekend.
This is the idiocy we’re dealing with.
Butte County is one of the few counties in CA that went for Trump/Pence in 2016 – surprise, surprise!!
Just make it a condition that churches are free to open and pack the sheep in as tight as they want, as long as there are no tithes/collections made.
Problem solved…
It’s not the first time that religion has been weaponized. It’s just that in this case, it’s more like shooting yourself in the foot, instead of going after the unbelievers.
As a side effect the unbelievers will get it anyway, but it’s not the way this has historically be done. Pope Urban II would not approve.
“They didn’t do it intentionally, they didn’t come to church intentionally,” Jacobsen said Sunday. “It was never my heart to put our church in harm’s way. That’s never been my desire.”
SO F*CKING STUPID. If your desire was to protect your church, you should have assumed that someone among your members has the virus that’s ravaging the U.S., and behaved accordingly. That is what everyone else is doing because they are not stubborn, ignorant fools. It’s as simple as following both common sense and the law, but you thought you were special. You put your church in harm’s way, and you did it intentionally because you knew the risks.
I hope everyone that attended that gets sick sues him for their medical expenses and the state charges him with murder for any that die. While the attendees certainly deserve some of the blame, these religious grifters will never stop until they begin paying, heavily, financially and with their freedoms.
And Jesus didn’t infect anyone when (or if) he walked on water, you stupid shit.
Sometimes I am tempted to indulge those fools who long for martyrdom.
was it common sense for Peter to step out of the boat onto the stormy seas of Galilee to go toward Jesus? No, there was no common sense in that. Faith has nothing to do with making sense.”
The proper question would be “would Peter step out of the boat if he knew that doing so would cause the boat to capsize and drown the other disciples?”
Apparently, faith has nothing to do with ethical behavior informed by morality.
God senteth thou a lockdown to protecteth thee, but thou heededest it not, thou boneheads.
25 of California’s 58 counties went for Trump in 2016.
When these situations eventually hit the courts (and I’d be wiling to bet that they will), there’s no doubt in my mind that the lawyers of the idiot business owners are going to invoke the issue of free will.
“Your Honor, these umpteen infected people didn’t have to go to the barber shop/attend services/go out to a restaurant. They did it of their own free will and so, they must have wanted to get infected of their own free will.”
People like these will keep the Darwin Awards in business.
