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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMO congregant this am: "They could get ME sick but they're not because I'm covered in His blood!"
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Antonio French ✔@AntonioFrench
Missouri is one of those states that exempt church services from its stay-at-home order. This is a mistake.
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8:53 AM - Apr 5, 2020
That's going to be your OWN blood and it will be all over Gov Parson's hands.
Loon...
gibraltar72
(7,506 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)I'm using that word a lot lately. With good reason.
I'm thinking the person quoted needs some Tide! Geez, they're covered in blood!
Call the coos too.
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)Is that a couple of centuries ago we ceased taking our religious belief quite this seriously. Not all of us of course, but enough to change the tenor and tone of our culture and society. Very few of us now view religion as anything worth killing or dying over. That is why the West came to the predominant role in the world it has enjoyed for a good century and a half at least (though the change was set in motion somewhat earlier). It is rather shocking to see these ancient attitudes cropping up, among people who to a casual glance seem like anybody else, but whose minds are furnished with attitudes that would not seem much out of place a thousand years ago. People are going to die over this, like it or not, and the deaths cannot be confined to the devoted who court them, and declare their 'faith' a sure shield against them.
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)Squinch
(50,955 posts)rurallib
(62,423 posts)Who knows how many she will take with her?
texasfiddler
(1,990 posts)liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)But no. No we don't.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Notice the carefree, buoyant spirit of this woman of Gaw-duh, she just radiates the love, concern, compassion, and helpfulness just like her transcendental figure told her to do. She is a bright light in the surrounding darkness, bring comfort and succor to all lonely, frightened souls in this time of tribulation.
Bloody hell, shes a menace, a carrier spreading infection to INNOCENT CHILDREN and PREGNANT MOTHERS! Shes endangering fetuses! No wonder shes covered in Jesus blood, hes got a world-class nosebleed from her delusions that cheapen his product!
Politics have been reduced to a struggle of the sane vs. the insane. Rooting for SANITY.
tanyev
(42,568 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,391 posts)I would expect there would have been brass as well as strings in the band. The sea was reported to have been exceptionally calm that night. So the sound would have carried quite a distance.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)until someone they know dies, if then. They might just write it off to God's plan.
Let them get sick, let them die. They believe that God will save them, why don't we.
You can't save them from themselves anymore than they can "save" you from your worldly and heathen selves.
Protect yourself and yours from their magical thinking.
Windy City Charlie
(1,178 posts)Yet, if she starts noticing any symptoms she'll be one demanding to be tested and get immediate care. That's when she needs to be told, "you'll be fine, you're covered in Jesus's blood".
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)Ugh!
Theres been reports of most churches around here switching to online services, but its not required.
Heres what DeWine listed as essential services: https://www.whio.com/news/local/coronavirus-here-are-the-businesses-considered-essential-dewine-new-order/1CTJY7J1p0lnlBR0rjmoDM/
It includes:
Religious entities. This includes religious buildings and services, including weddings and funerals.
Theres all kinds of factories still open which I KNOW arent essential, like my brothers workplace and my former workplace.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Do not put your Lord that God to the test...
dawg
(10,624 posts)These people don't read books. They listen to what their preacher has to say. (And maybe to the lyrics of Christian music, and some select country songs, like those of Lee Greenwood and Toby Keith.)
Mariana
(14,858 posts)And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)Christian pastor who thought COVID-19 is just 'mass hysteria' is among the first in Virginia to die
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213179274
Where are the Super Christians/evangelicals to claim it was God's judgement?
Trump-endorsed news outlet says it's God's "judgment" that a gay activist died from coronavirus