Very Holy Siblings Demand School Risk Safety To See Their Faces, For Jesus

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.wonkette.com/very-holy-siblings-demand-school-risk-safety-to-see-their-faces-for-jesus

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First of all, I would like to point out the very high likelihood that these children wear clothes to school and that their father wears clothes when he goes to work or otherwise leaves the house. Surely it is not only their faces that were "made in the image of God," and yet they have no issue covering up the rest of them.

Second, 65 percent of Americans identify as Christians. While that may not be as high a percentage as in previous decades, it is still the majority religion in this country. Not only are there many Christians out there wearing masks with no religious conflict, but there are very likely Christians involved in making this very decision. "Not wearing a mask during a fucking pandemic" is hardly a well-known precept of Christianity, nor any other religion known to man. In fact, while I think we all know by now I am not a Bible person, other people looked into it, and the Bible says to put a mask on your piehole. For the lord.

There are also no known instances of people belonging to any religion being given an "accommodation" that allowed them to put other people's lives at risk. Why? Because generally speaking, someone's right to practice their religion ends where another person's safety and wellbeing begin. If there were a religious community of children who felt they needed to sacrifice all of the adults in their town to He Who Walks Behind The Rows in order to ensure a quality corn harvest, they would not be allowed to do that, legally. They definitely would not be allowed to do it at school, at the very least. So it seems odd that these children think that they ought to be allowed to do anything that could potentially lead to someone's death by another means.

Third, why would anyone believe in a God who would rather people get sick and die than miss one moment of staring at the faces of these two particular teenagers? It's nice to have confidence, but to imagine oneself so incredibly attractive that a literal deity could not live without gazing upon your countenance between the hours of 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. daily is a little much.

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[EYESORE 9001]

1. If they really wanted to honor their deity

they’d wear assless chaps.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

12. Just a small point of fact ...

All chaps are assless

[EYESORE 9001]

13. I believe the distinction lies

in whether anything is worn under them.

[Disaffected]

21. Not this chap.

Or anyone wearing chaps for that matter...

[Hugh_Lebowski]

25. Well, how about you post a pic and let DU'ers decide on this matter?

[Disaffected]

28. OMG

There's enough horrors on this forum as it is - I'll not add to it...

[Thomas Hurt]

2. roll the dice, test the Lord your God!

[louslobbs]

3. Ahhh, no thanks...I'll pass. But the COVID virus is all for it!

That cartoon where the virus says “I can fix stupid,” is appropriate here.

[3catwoman3]

4. What is it about religion that makes people lose their minds?

The ability to think rationally seems to completely disappear.

Their justifications are a load of bullshit.

And if Gawd is so all powerful, doesn’t he/she/it already know what these simpering siblings look like? Can’t he/she/it see thru the mask with super posers?

[blogslug]

5. How ableist of them

If one of their teachers were blind would they blame the devil because that teacher could not see their precious white faces?

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. This kind of brain washing should be illegal.

Kids in rhe midwest and south grow up with this from the day they are born.

[Leith]

7. They can prop their pictures up on their desks

The other students would make sure that these brats understand how their demands are coming across to everyone else.

[Midnight Writer]

8. Anyone claiming religious exemption for anything should have to show proof

that the doctrine of their religion requires that exemption.

During the draft, if you were a conscientious objector, you had to provide evidence of that. You couldn't just say it and make it so.

[unblock]

9. My religion demands that I throw these kids into the volcano to stop it from erupting

Ok, no it doesn't, and I'm not going to.

but I'd just like to point out that the idea of throwing other people's kids into volcanos in the hopes it will make the angry volcano god less likely to erupt makes a lot more sense than these people trying to infect other kids with a potentially lethal disease.

I mean, with the child sacrifice at least there's the hope that the volcano won't erupt.

There isn't even a pretend upside to not wearing masks.

[Progressive Jones]

10. More cult stupidity. nt

[moondust]

11. GQP: Image is everything.

The skin-deep gang no want no dang masks!

And yes, judge, God told me to rob that bank. You ain't holier than God, judge, so leave me alone!

[ananda]

14. Holy my eye -- just shit covered with smarm is what they are.

Yech

[paleotn]

15. More cult crap

Come on, Amurka. Secularize, damnit!

[Baitball Blogger]

16. They're going to play every angle.

And the more they push, the more we have to push back to protect things that count more than their religious rights. There's public health and property rights, for one thing, that should count more.

[RustyWheels]

17. Leviticus 13:45-46

Anyone with such a defiling disease must wear torn clothes, let their hair be un-kept, cover the lower part of their face, and cry out "Unclean! Unclean!".

As long as they have the disease they remain unclean. They must live alone, they must live outside the camp.

New International Version.
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Seems God told Moses and Aaron how to control communicable diseases way back when.

[Glorfindel]

18. This

Thanks for posting it!

[MissMillie]

19. This is the story I was asking about the other day

When I asked what religion forbade the wearing of masks.

There is absolutely NOTHING about Christianity that forbids Christians from wearing masks.

You don't get to make sh!t up (and put other people in danger) and accuse the state of oppression.

[sanatanadharma]

20. Made in the image and likeness of God makes God...

Made in the image and likeness of God makes God a hermaphrodite, I tell them.
They do not want to hear it.

The real meaning of the biblical phrase is that, like any god worth her worth*, we are conscious-existent-beingness.

If God is conscious-existent-beingness and limitless, then human conscious-existent-beingness is non-different from God.
That is the image to be kept in mind and heart.

No matter how one tries to slice and dice Theology, two separate conscious-existent-beingness are impossible if one is infinite (no outside, no otherness, no not-me).

*Who claims God to be insentient, inert like a rock? No, the worth of gods in human consciousness is that God is consciousness.
Or so it is said.
BTW, knowing that one's true identity is conscious-existent-beingness, does not make one God.

[Mosby]

22. Funny how they blame "religion"

One of the most popular uses of religion since time immemorial has been to justify the worst acts of human beings — from the Crusades to the Spanish Inquisition to slavery to witch hunts to segregation to various acts of terrorism and pretty much all racism and sexism in general. Not to mention the time all those pagans on a random island off the coast of Scotland burned a dude alive in a giant wicker man so their gods would improve their whole crop situation.

Why the non-specificity?

The author is referring to Christianity and Islam. Not Judaism, Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism etc.

Call it what it is, FFS.

[Elessar Zappa]

24. All religions have parts of their history that are terrible.

[Mosby]

27. No, they don't.

The vast majority of religions don't have a supremacist quality like Islam and Christianity, who both think that their religions are correct and the rest of the world must convert.

[Bristlecone]

23. Their really just a couple of assholes.

[Johonny]

26. Nope, home school