Gloria Copeland: No Need For Flu Shots Because Jesus Himself Gave Us The Flu Shot

[Initech]

Back in 2013, the Texas megachurch run by televangelist Kenneth Copeland, a member of President Trump’s faith advisory council who recently became the proud owner of a Jesus-provided private plane, was at the center of a measles outbreak that was attributed to the church’s belief that congregants can forego vaccines because Jesus will protect them from illness.

You’d think that given past experience, Copeland’s Eagle Mountain International Church might have learned a lesson, but you’d be wrong, as yesterday a video was posted on the ministry’s Facebook page featuring Copeland’s wife, Gloria, telling people that there is no such thing as a flu season and that they don’t need to get a flu shot because “Jesus himself gave us the flu shot.”

“Listen partners, we don’t have a flu season,” Gloria Copeland said. “And don’t receive it when somebody threatens you with, ‘Everybody is getting the flu.’ We’ve already had our shot, He bore our sicknesses and carried our diseases. That’s what we stand on.”

Praying for those who may already have the flu, Copeland proclaimed, “Flu, I bind you off the people in the name of Jesus. Jesus himself gave us the flu shot, He redeemed us from the curse of flu.” Those who don’t have the flu, she promised, can protect themselves by simply declaring, “I’ll never have the flu.”

“Inoculate yourself with the word of God,” Copeland advised.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gloria-copeland-no-need-for-flu-shots-because-jesus-himself-gave-us-the-flu-shot/

[dewsgirl]

1. People like this are so dangerous.

[bobbieinok]

2. Kenneth attended Oral Roberts U in Tulsa OK in the early days of the school. He was Oral's pilot.

[procon]

3. At age 75, she's in a high risk group for flu and other communicable diseases.

She's also frequently in physical contact with large crowds of people, again, increasing her risk of contracting a life threatening illness. Does anyone believes that she doesn't get herself vaccinated? That has nothing to do with the scam she's running to get rich by hoodwinking simple minded people who place their own lives at risk by following her deadly advice.

[silverweb]

4. Texas has had numerous flu deaths this year.

As a medical transcriptionist, my major account is a large hospital system in Texas. Just about every other admission note I've done in the past few weeks has been for someone with a bad case of the flu, often elderly with superimposed pneumonia. There have been hundreds of deaths.

It's bad down there, very bad, and this evil Copeland hag and those like her are a major reason.

[IluvPitties]

5. I am sure Jesus would have gotten the flu shot

because he was not an idiot like many of his present day followers.

[phylny]

6. I heard this week that 37 children in the U.S. have died from the flu.

This is so horrible.

[USALiberal]

7. Waiting for the "Never had flu shot and never get the flu" fools. nt

[Aristus]

8. Leave aside medical science for a moment, (but only a moment)

this sends a terrible message to people of faith. It basically says that if you die of a preventable disease after opting for prayer over vaccination, then other believers will feel justified in accusing you of not praying hard enough.

If a child dies because his/her parents were encouraged to choose prayer over science, they'll be stricken with guilt forever that they didn't 'pray hard enough'.

God, these people infuriate me...

[smirkymonkey]

9. We'll that's one way to thin out the fundie herds.

What happens when they eventually DO come down to the flu? Do they lose faith in Jesus? Or do they assume it's because they aren't "Christian" enough?

[Ken Burch]

11. Then they blame Muslims, gays and Obama.

n/t.

[dalton99a]

10. I'm sure she's okay with Jesus giving her pneumonia