Pastor again defies state order not to hold large gatherings. Says 1,000 people came to his church
That area is a hotbed for the virus right now. This is totally playing with fire!
By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor
Updated 11:35 AM ET, Wed March 25, 2020
Remember the Louisiana pastor who defied the governor's order not to hold gatherings larger than 50 people?
He held services again on Sunday, and he plans to do so yet again on Tuesday night.
On Sunday, Pastor Tony Spell said, his Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge drew about 1,000 people to its services, in part by busing people in from across five parishes.
On Tuesday evening, the pastor plans to hold services again, despite the governor's stay-at-home orders, a petition seeking his arrest and a flood of criticism from fellow Christians.
"If they close every door in this city, then I will close my doors," Spell told CNN on Tuesday. "But you can't say the retailers are essential but the church is not. That is a persecution of the faith."
Spell has told CNN he believes the pandemic is "politically motivated."
More: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/us/louisiana-pastor-spell-coronavirus/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2BZX1wjzelCfFa3vPXMAcYE5tccM_n010s8yup7azbbfK4rZKCr_aAfKc
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I think we know this is about $ too?
Wild guess that he lives way above his flock?
It's as if this has been done before?
"One of the first deaths in Virginia from coronavirus was a 66-year-old Christian “musical evangelist” who fell ill while on a trip to New Orleans with his wife. As the Friendly Atheist’s Hemant Mehta points out, Landon Spradlin had previously shared opinions that the pandemic was the result of “mass hysteria” from the media."
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/christian-pastor-who-thought-covid-19-is-just-mass-hysteria-among-the-first-in-virginia-to-die-from-virus/
What is it with these people who are in denial? They can screw up their own life for all I care but they spread dangerous lies along with the germs to others who listen to them. 
