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If you want to get to heaven youâd better head out now.
Coronavirus,6,000,000 new unemployment filings, over 700,000 jobless 4/3/2020 and yet.
These âpastorsâ are ridiculous. God helps those who help themselves. He gives you the tools. This is not only deadly to these fools but to those they come in contact with. For the Governors of these states to pander for votes puts us ALL at risk. I am reminded during the Crystal Cathedral days when they had a parking lot hooked up like a drive-in theatre. Social distancing at its best. NOW you can beam it in to your HOMES. Câmon people.
Just an FYI to the Greed-Over-People Party Gov of TXâŠ
When you say everything is big in Texas
That does NOT mean you have to spread Covid BIGLY in TX!
Churchâs are SUPER SPREADERSâŠin a South Korean church, it church clusters spread Covid-19 to over 5,016 people, you Maggoted Moronic MAGAts!
STOP making USA play Whack-A-Covid because of your selfishness and worship to the altar of your Dear Covidiot Orange Leader!
Addendum:
Letâs NOT forget what the Lt. Gov of TX said:
OK to KAG (Kill American Geriatrics) for Wallstreet/Trump$$$
Abbottâs office released joint guidance with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that said houses of worship must be given special consideration for constitutional reasonsâŠâ
Sorry, but thereâs not a chance in Hell that closing churches is unconstitutional during an emergency.
Itâd be different if only mosques were closed, or only synagogues, or only Catholic churchesâŠ
But if a public-heath emergency requires ALL of them to close, then thereâs no case whatsoever.
Abbott really IS as dumb â and homicidal â as he looks.
This is typical Abbott.
I wouldnât care if all the RW christians in the state died but theyâre going to kill us in the process.
Weâre and essential service sounds so much better than âif they donât show up, they donât put their hard earned cash into the donation plateâ. This isnât about spiritual support or being essential itâs all about the money.
Ta Da! You win because that is the entire reason behind this. If people donât show up in person their dollars donât go in the plate.
"But Harvardâs Hanage said gatherings of any size are problematic. And the way people interact in churches, synagogues, mosques and other religious facilities â shaking hands, hugging, singing â appears conducive to what epidemiologists call âsuper-spreading events,â
Dougherty County, Georgia currently has the third-highest per capita infection rate of all counties in the nation. That started at a funeral.
We may be scrambling for a lot of things in this crisis, but we are never going to run out of stupid.
I know it makes me a terrible person, but I admit my first thought was âwell, more food for the rest of us in a monthâ. Still itâs a shame about all the not.fucking.stupid people going to get cross- contaminated because of these fuckwits.
Some pastors look after the well-being of their flock, some just fleece them.
Last night on the news they showed what a local Episcopal priest is doing while his congregation stays at home. He asked them to send him their pictures and he set up the pictures on their pews so that he can see his congregation when he holds services. It was quite dear - all these people and families in pictures on sticks sitting in pews. hahaha
For those who went to services and did not die of covid-19, itâs a miracle! Praise the lord! The ones who did die, well the lord works in mysterious ways and they probably deserved it anyways.
This has been another lesson in selection bias.
I canât tell from the way the article is written:
Am I to understand that 30 states have declared church to be an âessential serviceâ ? Or do this many states have a âstay at home orderâ while just Texas exempts church?
Iâve always found the shepherd-flock analogy to be apt.
Evidently FSM expects us to use the brains he gave us.
