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At least the Buy-Bull thumpers aren't suggesting prayer as a cure for the coronavirus (Original Post) stopbush Mar 2020 OP
It will be the lord's will when it hits poor communities or certain cities . They can't stop from lunasun Mar 2020 #1
Odds are, they think they are about to be raptured... Thomas Hurt Mar 2020 #2
Did that stupid End Times series Lars39 Mar 2020 #4
It's probably never occurred to any of them to wonder if the true 'rapture' tanyev Mar 2020 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author cyclonefence Mar 2020 #3
What makes you think that? muriel_volestrangler Mar 2020 #5
Especially effective if you touch the screen in a doctor's waiting room or a McDonalds. tanyev Mar 2020 #7
Wait until Sunday morning and go to church ms liberty Mar 2020 #6

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
1. It will be the lord's will when it hits poor communities or certain cities . They can't stop from
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 03:38 AM
Mar 2020

judging too long imo
Hucksters like Jim Bakker have already been grifting on his prayer shows with the virus
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/03/12/jim-bakker-coronavirus-cure-claim-missouri-attorney-general-files-suit/5032998002/

tanyev

(42,618 posts)
8. It's probably never occurred to any of them to wonder if the true 'rapture'
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 08:28 AM
Mar 2020

will actually be experienced by all those left behind.

Response to stopbush (Original post)

muriel_volestrangler

(101,361 posts)
5. What makes you think that?
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 06:16 AM
Mar 2020
During a livestream last night, televangelist Kenneth Copeland cured coronavirus.

It’s gone now. He just held out his hand, asked viewers to touch their screens to meet it, and… somehow coronavirus is no longer a thing. Who knew.




https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/03/12/televangelist-touch-my-oily-hand-through-the-tv-and-ill-cure-your-coronavirus/

And they're magically immune!

The Church of Cyprus, an independent Greek Orthodox church, has no intention to stop serving wine and wafers during communion despite the threat of the novel coronavirus. Even though the ritual requires contact with the same vessels, they’re not afraid because they insist God would never let the virus transmit that way.

So I guess that’s settled.

The Orthodox Times has the statement in English:

Regarding the offering of the Holy Communion, the position of the Church is known. The Holy Communion does not symbolize but it is the Body and Blood of Christ. It would be blasphemous to think that Christ’s Body and Blood could transmit any disease or virus. Based upon the centuries-old experience of Christianity, there is no evidence of such transmission. The priests who served in infectious diseases hospitals and administered the Holy Communion to those patients, in the end, received the remainder of the Divine Communion themselves by using the same spoon. No priest was infected in these cases.

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/03/12/church-of-cyprus-god-would-never-let-coronavirus-spread-via-communion/

ms liberty

(8,599 posts)
6. Wait until Sunday morning and go to church
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 07:01 AM
Mar 2020

Any of the more fundamentalist sects will be preaching their garbage on Sunday.

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