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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLouisiana church does it again - this time with 500 people.
We manage to achieve international fame each day. From today, reported on Guardian UK's rolling coronavirus page:
See: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/mar/29/coronavirus-live-news-trump-proposes-quarantine-of-new-york-and-other-hotspots
An estimated 500 people of all ages filed inside the mustard-yellow and beige Life Tabernacle church in Central, a city of nearly 29,000 outside Baton Rouge.
Assistant ministers and worshippers who stood outside the front doors and in the parking lot of Life Tabernacle told news reporters to leave, saying cameras would not be allowed on the property and they had been told not to talk to the news media.
Original story from last Sunday:
Baton Rouge church continues to host Sunday service with hundreds in attendance
Posted: 2:25 PM, Mar 23, 2020
By: KATC News
Link to story: https://www.katc.com/news/covering-louisiana/baton-rouge-church-continues-to-host-sunday-service-with-thousands-in-attendance
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WVLA in Baton Rouge says that 26 buses were used to pick people up from around the Baton Rouge area to take them to church.
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The church's pastor Tony Spell went against state and federal guidelines for social distancing to hold the service. Spell tells WLVA that the Life Tabernacle Church in Central believes in the healing hand of Jesus, even through an aggressive global pandemic.
Throughout the service, parishioners were seen touching each other and closely gathering, very few wearing masks or gloves.
Spell says if anyone in his congregation is infected with the virus, he will heal them through God. "I'm going to address that by laying hands on them and praying for them and depending on God to heal their body," Spell said.
Just as with the megachurch in South Korea, this congregation will be directly responsible for countless hospitalizations and deaths.
KY............ ......... ...........and at some point..........
gibraltar72
(7,498 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)than the ones I remember from church as a kid. It was usually their first-born or a lamb I think.
For this round, it's the old and feeble so Abraham and Moses would have to watch their backs......
jls4561
(1,253 posts)HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)Hopefully not as well attended.
jimfields33
(15,692 posts)Hell im Catholic and watched mass on a facebook stream. There are tons of ways to do your thing on Sunday's safely.
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)it's better to give than to receive.
Speaking of Church - it truly is unfortunate that we no longer have houses of worship to safely attend nor gyms to work out in, as those are two really important places and things that people can turn to in times of anxiety, as both (depending on your jam) can bring peace to a troubled mind.
jimfields33
(15,692 posts)LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Many of these people are going to die. Needlessly. So STUPID!!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)so the pastor is guilty of voluntary manslaughter and so are the people who came
thousands possibly including YOU or ME if they travel OR the people they infect TRAVEL
MOTHER FUCKING NO GOOD GOD DAMN ASSHOLES
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)RussBLib
(9,003 posts)Demonaut
(8,914 posts)flor-de-jasmim
(2,125 posts)dem4decades
(11,269 posts)They've made their choice.
OverBurn
(942 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)They may even be selling their healing secrets by phone or on-line, just like tRump would have them do......
delisen
(6,042 posts)he claims to follow. This is the branch of "christianity" that is a death cult.
It overlaps with the branch of republicanism that is also a death cult.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)He is a first responder and brings the Holy Ghost to them
Phoenix61
(16,993 posts)them I would. Im not willing to risk the life of a medical professional for someone who arrogantly refuses to make the smallest effort to keep themselves safe. Let them pray themselves well.
npk
(3,660 posts)Trump or god. The real irony is that neither will save them if they do require medical attention from the COVID-19.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)Like a lot of folks these days, social media and cable TV is in essence their god and a hard addiction.
Most probably watch tweets and texts all day from.....
*a variety of Rethug politicians like Edwards, Kennedy and Trump,
* one or more local evangelical preachers and some national ones like Robertson and Graham, and
* a host of people in the local flock spreading the dogma around.
At other times, they likely watch Faux News.
I feel that's why it's hard to get through to them. The right-wing has managed to occupy their minds full-time....
npk
(3,660 posts)And Faux News has been telling people to get back to normal along with tRump. They will never listen to the people who are actually looking out for the best interest. It's maddening.
cojoel
(953 posts)The police should bring over a 100 or so tow trucks, impound all of the vehicles in the parking lot and tow them away from the premises, and also bring over a few paddy wagons to be ready for when the service ends.
Maru Kitteh
(28,313 posts)Allow them to evacuate the children only.
Marrah_Goodman
(1,586 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,655 posts)yankeepants
(1,979 posts)GemDigger
(4,305 posts)Did you go to a packed church? If they answer yes, put the idiots at the back of the emergency line and keep them there.
la-trucker
(283 posts)When people rely on religion instead of science, this is bound to happen
progressoid
(49,945 posts)Good people will die from their actions.
la-trucker
(283 posts)They are exposing their loved ones and their colleagues and others they may contact with
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)They should be referred to as "Branch Covidians".
get the red out
(13,460 posts)Is about the collection plate, worshipping Trump, and owning the libs.
They are all arrogant, the conning ministers and their devout followers both. A sick symbiotic relationship that can now kill the body as well as the usual rotting of the mind.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)They in no way are like the people I was raised around in the 50s and 60s in the Southern Baptist Church. Love, humility and compassion were the primary themes with virtually no evangelical leanings other than a few overseas missionaries.
Then, in the 90s when I was around some who identified as prosperity gospel Christians, I just about lost it......
keithbvadu2
(36,655 posts)The "prosperity gospel" pastors/collectors seem to do much better in the prosperity than the investors/donors.
get the red out
(13,460 posts)My parents were "Church of Christ" and my paternal grand-parents were Baptists. They seemed to be trying to follow their religion but not a "preacher". When I was growing up in Paintsville, KY in the 70s, There was one Baptist Church in town that was considered irrationally conservative by most everyone else, even other Baptists I knew. They were NUTS about preventing teenagers in the congregation from attending school dances! They always scheduled some youth activity during dances at either of the two high schools. A friend whose parents were totally into that Church made him go to Liberty University. He wanted to be free so bad! It took him years and a bad marriage then divorce from a woman he met at Liberty to start that process. A harbinger of things to come IMO.
I have a first cousin who is a Freewill Baptist Preacher, all his conversations are full of a religious fanatic code. My Sister and I can't even hold a conversation with the guy. Our worlds are so different culturally that it was like trying to understand the cultural conversation norms with someone from another country as you go along, with no explanation.
Turbineguy
(37,291 posts)it's the evangelicals and trump supporters that will insure its gentle slope instead of precipitous drop.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)After all, those collection plates must be filled (*)............
* Although I'll bet most have set up on-line means of contributing. Visa, Mastercard and AMEX gladly accepted.
nilram
(2,886 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)stupid enough to participate in something like. Unfortunately they have certainly put enormous amounts of people in danger as they pass it along.
struggle4progress
(118,224 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 30, 2020, 08:52 AM - Edit history (1)
Unfortunately they are going to take a lot of other people with them.
Fucking lock the doors next time they congregate - and do not let them out for 14 days or more.