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Related: About this forumReport: Bible Belt Christians Are Dying After Ignoring Social Distancing Guidelines
AlterNet reports:
According to a recent report from the U.K.-based Independent, the current coronavirus pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 30 pastors in the Bible Belt, and many more parishioners, after church leaders “actively encouraged churchgoers to flout self-distancing guidelines.”
Writing for the Independent, Alex Woodward notes:
more...https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2020/04/report-bible-belt-christians-are-dying-after-ignoring-social-distancing-guidelines/?utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1edQ42necPliG3oyi8DoUgvTBD7I7YTxjXDbWF7ahpo1kZe7iDrKyeIZE
Many Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals have been irresponsibly downplaying the dangers of COVID-19 and doing so with deadly results…
Evangelical fundamentalists who openly defied social distancing guidelines are dying of coronavirus in frightening numbers…
According to a recent report from the U.K.-based Independent, the current coronavirus pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 30 pastors in the Bible Belt, and many more parishioners, after church leaders “actively encouraged churchgoers to flout self-distancing guidelines.”
Writing for the Independent, Alex Woodward notes:
Dozens of pastors across the Bible Belt have succumbed to coronavirus after churches and televangelists played down the pandemic and actively encouraged churchgoers to flout self-distancing guidelines.
As many as 30 church leaders from the nation’s largest African-American Pentecostal denomination have now been confirmed to have died in the outbreak, as members defied public health warnings to avoid large gatherings to prevent transmitting the virus.
more...https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2020/04/report-bible-belt-christians-are-dying-after-ignoring-social-distancing-guidelines/?utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1edQ42necPliG3oyi8DoUgvTBD7I7YTxjXDbWF7ahpo1kZe7iDrKyeIZE
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Report: Bible Belt Christians Are Dying After Ignoring Social Distancing Guidelines (Original Post)
progressoid
May 2020
OP
They would have been better off handling poisonous snakes than fucking with this virus.
stopbush
May 2020
#1
A Christian school in town had a big graduation, nobody social distancing no masks.
redstatebluegirl
May 2020
#11
stopbush
(24,643 posts)1. They would have been better off handling poisonous snakes than fucking with this virus.
Baitball Blogger
(49,216 posts)10. +1
PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,183 posts)2. Gosh. What a shame.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)3. Yeah, I really feel for them not.
abakan
(1,981 posts)12. I feel for them
But I just can't reach em.
Dios Mio
(429 posts)4. Great new way to die for your beliefs.
Straight to heaven for you martyrs.
SergeStorms
(19,404 posts)5. Thoughts and prayers.
And their messiah here on earth wants Governors to open these churches up to regular "business as usual". And make no mistake, it is a business. I say, full speed ahead with the god-squad!
AirmensMom
(14,887 posts)6. It would be fine if they only killed themselves.
I'm all for that. But they end up spreading it throughout the community. That's the part that irks me.
vercetti2021
(10,432 posts)7. Well as I said a month ago
Off to meet God early
3Hotdogs
(13,870 posts)8. Mark Twain: "Mary Baker Eddy proves that God has a sense of humor."
--- and so did these fools.
czarjak
(12,642 posts)9. I don't feel owned.
redstatebluegirl
(12,564 posts)11. A Christian school in town had a big graduation, nobody social distancing no masks.
That was about 2 weeks ago, we will see what happens soon.
Warpy
(113,131 posts)13. They should have read the bit in their bibles about not testing god
It's a virus. It doesn't care how "saved" you are.
Iggo
(48,706 posts)14. I feel bad for their kids.
I always feel bad for their kids.