Christian journal claims government has forced the Church to worship 'the false god of saving lives'

[applegrove]

Christian journal claims government has forced the Church to worship ‘the false god of saving lives’

 March 23, 2020

By Matthew Chapman at Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/christian-journal-claims-government-has-forced-the-church-to-worship-the-false-god-of-saving-lives/

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"A number of my friends disagree with me,” wrote Reno. “They support the current measures, insisting that Christians must defend life. But the pro-life cause concerns the battle against killing, not an ill-conceived crusade against human finitude and the dolorous reality of death.”

Indeed, Reno even suggested that fearing the pandemic is a victory for Satan.

“There is a demonic side to the sentimentalism of saving lives at any cost,” wrote Reno. “Satan rules a kingdom in which the ultimate power of death is announced morning, noon, and night. But Satan cannot rule directly. God alone has the power of life and death, and thus Satan can only rule indirectly. He must rely on our fear of death.”

“Fear of death and causing death is pervasive — stoked by a materialistic view of survival at any price and unchecked by Christian leaders who in all likelihood secretly accept the materialist assumptions of our age,” concluded Reno. “As long as we allow fear to reign, it will cause nearly all believers to fail to do as Christ commands in Matthew 25. It already is.”

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[wcmagumba]

1. Idiots...nt

[lapfog_1]

2. Can i kill this asshole in a "Stand Your Ground" state? - n/t

[Jamastiene]

6. Unfortunately no.

I live in a "Castle Doctrine" state. I thought about it and then thought how the local police care more about protecting assholes like them and wasting a bunch of time giving shit to non-Christians like me. No, you cannot get away with it, although you'd be doing the world a favor and land on my hero list if you could.

[Judi Lynn]

16. It's a wonder he hasn't been kidnapped and taken to Florida!

R. R. Reno showing perfect form while making air quotes.

[Moostache]

3. Excuse Mr. Religious Freak Boy...

You're an asshole. Fuck off and die.

Please don't give freaks like this the attention they crave - ignore them. Write them off as non-functioning defects and accept that we have evolved to a point where being terminally stupid is no longer a fatal condition.

[applegrove]

7. We should hold up this as an example. Maybe some evangelicals will

look at this and say "am i like that too?" "Do i believein republicans to a point i'm going to die an early death?"

There was a smallpox outbreak in Montreal back in the 1800s. Some quack claimed innoculatiin was not necessary. Some reporter followed him on a trip where it was revealed the doctor had been innoculated himself. He was revealed as a sadist. What other word is there for someone who enables pain and suffering.

[Brother Mythos]

12. Well said.

"We have evolved to a point where being terminally stupid is no longer a fatal condition."

Someone should carve that quotation, in tall letters, on the side of a mountain.

[Jamastiene]

4. Shut up, assholes. You just want your fucking freebie money

to keep mooching off your parishioners. You know that if some of them die, others will give you more so you can keep mooching off people. Get a real job and quit being a con artist so you can live off their gullibility forever.

They are just a bunch of fucking con artists. Lock their asses in the churches and throw away the key. We can build a better, smarter world.

[eShirl]

5. Does this mean they no longer have a problem with abortion?

[Jamastiene]

9. The only real reason they are involved with abortion in the first place has nothing to do

with saving lives, life, or children. It is controlling women's bodies. Period. Nothing more. Nothing less. No matter what they claim, it is all about controlling women and our bodies. It was never about "life" in the first place. And it certainly was never about children. Look at how children are treated and how many children go hungry and get abused in the Bible Belt. That speaks volumes about their real feelings about children. A southern parent will look right at a child and flat out tell them they can kill them and make another that looks just like them. It's what my abusive ass mother did to me growing up. She was constantly threatening to knock my head off and other crap like that, in between her Draconian punishments for silly shit. And I'm not the only one. Look at which children in America will not eat at all most days without the school breakfast programs. It's always the kids in the most religiously controlled areas of the Bible Belt. Their involvement in the abortion debate has always been about controlling women, not about life or children. Don't let them fool you.

[Celerity]

17. [phone]

[Withywindle]

8. Gosh, I guess would be really Satanic to worship someone who

went around telling rich people they were damned because of their selfishness, and making food for the poor, and comforting people who were afraid, and healing sick people for free.

Revering people who sacrifice themselves for others? The WORST.

[DFW]

10. I.e.: "Jesus Saves. Why Should We?"

Sure, that should really attract the true believers when posted on their billboard on Sunday............

[flibbitygiblets]

11. Well I see Christianity has come full-circle and devoured itself

Keep bending out of shape to fit an ideology long enough and that's bound to happen.

[dansolo]

13. These are the same type of folks

Who fought so hard to keep Terry Schiavo alive.

[OnDoutside]

14. The Jonestown Christian Journal.

[safeinOhio]

15. Reminds me of that great Joe Hill song The Preacher and the Slave.

You will eat [You will eat] bye and bye [bye and bye]
In that glorious land above the sky [Way up high]
Work and pray [Work and pray] live on hay [live on hay]
You'll get pie in the sky when you die [That's a lie!]

Thus the final verse becomes:
You will eat [You will eat] bye and bye [bye and bye]
When you've learned how to cook and how to fry [How to fry]
Chop some wood [Chop some wood], 'twill do you good [do you good]
Then you'll eat in the sweet bye and bye [That's no lie]