Covid and Christians

Ok, I know I don't make a lot of posts here anymore, but I thought I'd throw out this list of things that churches, pastors, etc have said and done over the last few months just to show how unloving, uncaring, greedy, and irresponsible these folks are in case anyone has doubts.  99% fall into that category, however there are a few bright spots where leadership has put them in check mentioned as well.

• Jerry Fallwell Jr. and Liberty university - Fallwell Claims the virus is a hoax and then a dozen students get it.  https://www.mediaite.com/news/nearly-a-dozen-liberty-university-students-reportedly-have-coronavirus-symptoms/
• Christian pastor denies Corona is a threat and that its made up.  He died from Corona 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/
• 1/3 of South Korean Corona virus cases linked to two churches:  https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3051932/coronavirus-spurs-singapore-and-hong-kong-christians
• Florida mega church ignoring rules and holding large scale services https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-tampa-florida-church-jammed-for-sunday-service-despite-pandemic/
• Louisiana church ignoring rules and holding large scale services https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-29/louisiana-church-defies-covid-19-order-holds-sunday-services
• Pastor was arrested and say's he will continue to violate order - https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Louisiana-pastor-says-he-ll-keep-violating-15169615.php
• Pastor say's he "Doesn't like web services because you can't touch people"  Truly out of touch - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/an-evangelical-pastor-who-was-charged-after-holding-in-person-church-services-says-he-doesnt-like-livestreams-because-he-cant-touch-parishioners/ar-BB121Sa3
• Easter Service:  "Satan and a virus won't stop us!" - https://thehill.com/homenews/news/492277-louisiana-church-expecting-2000-at-easter-service-despite-coronavirus-satan-and
• This guy.  Now he wants churgoers to donate their entire stimulus checks instead of paying their own bills - https://www.tmz.com/2020/04/16/pastor-tony-spell-stimulus-challenge-donate-money-churches/

• Pastor Jim Baker sued by Missouri for peddling colloidal silver as a cure - https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814550474/missouri-sues-televangelist-jim-bakker-for-selling-fake-coronavirus-cure
• Alex Jones banned from google and reprimanded for selling Toothpaste that cures Corona - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/nyregion/alex-jones-coronavirus-cure.html; https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/13/21177998/new-york-attorney-general-alex-jones-infowars-coronavirus-cures-prevention; https://www.wired.com/story/google-bans-infowars-android-app-alex-jones-coronavirus/
• 10 people contract Corona from church service - https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200326/pastor-at-least-10-who-attended-glenview-church-service-get-coronavirus
• 34 people contract Corona from church service - https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2020/03/24/pastor-arkansas-church-coronavirus-warning-greers-ferry/
• Arkansas pastor believes Corona is a hoax and church members are willing to lick the floor to prove it - https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/arkansas-pastor-claims-church-members-willing-to-lick-the-floor-to-prove-coronavirus-a-hoax
• Corona is "God's Wrath" Despite the number of faithful showing up to church - https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/trumps-cabinet-pastor-has-a-wild-theory-that-coronavirus-is-gods-wrath/
• Howard-Brown, who believes  chemtrails and weather manipulation are real, and the people that rule the planet are Satanists who perform human sacrifices and drink blood, thinks he can cure Corona and that he cured Zika despite Zika still being around - https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2020/02/26/tampa-pastor-who-claimed-to-cure-zika-now-says-he-will-cure-florida-of-coronavirus
• UH-OH, they arrested him!!!! - https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborough-county/deputies-tampa-bay-church-violates-social-distancing-guidelines/
• He shut down the church because of the "Tyrannical Government" - https://www.tampabay.com/news/hillsborough/2020/04/02/tampa-pastor-arrested-for-defying-virus-orders-closes-church-due-to-tyrannical-government/
• He lost his insurance because of this - https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2020/04/03/orlando-lawyer-for-pastor-who-held-services-during-coronavirus-outbreak-says-church-lost-its-insurance
• Corona is god punishment because only 5% of Brides are virgins - https://www.towleroad.com/2020/03/pastor-coronavirus-is-a-warning-from-god-because-only-5-of-brides-are-virgins-watch/
• This guy predicted Corona and admonished women in his church because they aren't satisfied with 6" penises - https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/tamarac-vice-mayor-marlon-bolton-a-pastor-claims-he-predicted-coronavirus-10623383
• Before it took off here in the U.S., this pastor claimed Corona wouldn't affect us because Trump is our president and god like him - https://hillreporter.com/god-will-ward-off-coronavirus-because-trump-is-president-right-wing-pastor-claims-58044
• It's China's fault.  Not because they mishandled the epidemic, but because they need jesus. (Maybe they should have listened to South Korea?) - https://www.tuko.co.ke/343307-if-china-turn-jesus-coronavirus-crisis-us-pastor.html
• Hobby Lobby refuses to close stores unless the government makes them because Owners wife had a message from god. - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hobby-lobby-coronavirus/
• They also refused to pay sick leave - https://www.businessinsider.com/hobby-lobby-told-managers-denied-employees-paid-sick-leave-memo-2020-3; https://www.ajc.com/news/report-hobby-lobby-tells-workers-paid-sick-leave-during-national-crisis/dCh3HmqGzj4wGwhinYmu3N/
• Finally they are closing all their stores (04/04/2020) - https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/04/03/coronavirus-closings-hobby-lobby-temporarily-closing-all-stores-covid-19/2943408001/
• The "Football Jesus" church in Ohio is still holding large services despite Ohio being on lockdown - https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/solid-rock-church-continues-public-worship-services-during-coronavirus-outbreak/SmzNNNAitDfm2oetMWJRpI/
• Interviews with some of their clueless members - https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/04/04/ohio-church-service-covid-19-pandemic-tuchman-pkg-ac360-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/ac360-videos/
• Church choir practice?  This is necessary? - https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-29/coronavirus-choir-outbreak?_amp=true
• Got to be a x-tian to work at the Corona field hospital in central park NY City.  Must swear that sinners go to hell and that gays are bad - https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2020/03/central-park-tent-hospital-volunteers-must-agree-to-anti-gay-christian-dogma/?fbclid=IwAR3YzMYQiLk7VVNTmAX7QdXf4Tf6iWK6l7WAIzaQDepPvwexfpXLWY55oQQ (another citation needed)
• The plague in France boomed and was traced back to a "prayer meeting" of 2500 people - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/how-a-prayer-meeting-at-a-french-megachurch-may-have-led-to-scores-of-coronavirus-deaths/2020/04/01/fe478ca0-7396-11ea-ad9b-254ec99993bc_story.html
• Clinic is closed because Nurse gets Corona from Prayer breakfast.  She should know better!!!  - https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/duduza-clinic-closed-indefinitely-after-nurse-tests-positive-for-covid-19-45966089
• Minister says that Jesus had Covid when he died so we don't have to get it; continues to hold services.  - https://neareport.com/2020/04/01/church-says-jesus-had-covid-19-plans-to-continue-services/?fbclid=IwAR2_7zsWL1B6viGMkYHxniyGYBnp-5PKGZSLijZ5P9p-I-g2siIGYQNytb4
• 24 people (Confirmed) in Kentucky get corona through a revival service, maybe more - https://www.tristatehomepage.com/news/local-news/beshear-covid-19-outbreak-in-hopkins-county-linked-to-church-revival/
• PA Pastor calls European pastors "Pansy's" for closing for Covid, will hold outdoor service like Woodstock with "laying on of hands - https://www.wkrn.com/community/health/coronavirus/pennsylvania-pastor-blasts-covid-19-orders-plans-outdoor-service-like-woodstock/
• After all this lunacy, churches are after free money from the government to fund their upkeep, operation and pastor salaries because their donations are down.  Separation of church and state fuckers.  I will pitch a FIT if my tax money goes to fund churches and preachers salaries - https://religiondispatches.org/taxpayers-cannot-be-forced-to-fund-churches-even-in-a-pandemic/ (additional citation needed)
• The religious freedom bill of 1779 says, " That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors,4 is sinful and tyrannical; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty... We the General Assembly of Virginia do enact10 that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities. " https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-02-02-0132-0004-0082
• HHS even says on their website that government money is given to churches to help with community programs and charities not for religious reasons - " Such organizations should also carefully account for their use of all government money. This does not mean your organization can't have religious activities. It simply means you can't use taxpayer dollars to fund them. Some faith-based organizations set up separate charitable organizations (so-called "501(c)(3) corporations") to keep programs that receive government money separate from those that engage in inherently religious activities."  https://www.hhs.gov/answers/grants-and-contracts/what-are-the-rules-on-funding-religious-activity-with-federal-money/index.html  This does not include upkeep and pastor salaries.
• California mega-church linked to 71 Corona cases - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/03/california-church-coronvirus-outbreak-sacramento
• Corona is "Satan trying to keep us apart" say's clueless x-tians as they pack into churches for palm Sunday - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-palmsunday-idUSKBN21M0OP
• Another preacher who said Corona was "mass hysteria" dies of Corona - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52157824?at_medium=custom7&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom4=BA498FAE-7791-11EA-8A08-21E04744363C&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom3=%40BBCWorld&at_campaign=64
• Let's not leave out the church abortion protesters that can't give it a rest for a few weeks - https://www.wfae.org/post/charlotte-abortion-clinic-protesters-cited-violating-order-prohibiting-large-gatherings#stream/0
• I thought I'd include this one just for fun.  The Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy are now considered essential workers. - https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/jacinda-ardern-says-easter-bunny-essential-worker-but-warns-might-not-get-everywhere-year
• This landlord changed the locks to keep these x-tians from willfully gathering their ignorance into one spot - https://www.ktvu.com/news/landlord-changes-locks-on-california-church-after-pastor-said-hed-continue-to-hold-services
• Israeli health minister says Corona is "Divine Punishment", well guess who has it now - https://nayadaur.tv/2020/04/israel-health-minister-who-termed-coronavirus-divine-punishment-gets-coronavirus/
• Republicans in Wisconsin are mad because the governor won't let them gather in large groups for easter.  So much for thinking of your fellow man.  Your freedom ends when it puts the public at risk of death - https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/05/wisconsin-assembly-gop-calls-person-easter-passover-services/2950830001/
• Idaho is having a rash of people (Church groups) thinking that their constitutional rights give them the freedom to spread the virus.  For crying out loud, you can't claim free speech when yelling fire in a theater because it could harm someone, how is a epidemic different in regards to freedom of assembly? - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/us/coronavirus-idaho-bundy-patriot.html
• Republicans overrule governor's limit on the size of religious gatherings in a blatent act of idiocy and pandering - https://fox4kc.com/news/lawmakers-overturn-gov-kellys-order-limiting-religious-worship-size-in-kansas/
• What do you do when a journalist exposes you for keeping your religious "College" open despite being told to close because of Corona?  If you're Liberty University you press charges for trespassing on the journalist who exposed your dangerous behavior. -  https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/liberty-university-presses-charges-against-journalists-who-covered-campus-being-n1180731
• A Baptist church member in New Zealand decided that since everyone is at home, it's a good time to go door-to-door handing out religious paraphernalia. - https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/120960073/coronavirus-church-member-going-door-to-door-to-spread-the-word-breaks-covid19-lockdown
•  Churches planning to hold large Easter Services, including our friend Tony Spell.  One good thing mentioned is the church in Lodi, CA that the landlord changed the locks on to keep them from being stupid (surprise!  he still had a "Curbside Service"). - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-easter-usa/some-defiant-u-s-churches-plan-easter-services-ignoring-public-health-guidelines-idUSKCN21S10Y
• I can't make this shit up.  Phil Worthing - Televangalist - Blames Corona virus on the bulge in Captain America's pants. - https://halfwaypost.com/2020/03/17/televangelist-blames-covid-19-on-captain-americas-bulge-in-the-marvel-movies/
• Bundy will defy stay at home orders for religious gathering - https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/09/us/ammon-bundy-easter-gathering-idaho/index.html
• Kansas Gov. suing to have her order put back that limits in person attendance of religious gatherings because a 7 member committee voted it down in violation of the state constitution which states the legislature in it's entirety must be involved in the revocation of her executive order. - https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2020/apr/09/kansas-gov-kelly-sues-legislative-committee-that-revoked-religious-gathering-order/
• Supreme court says the Gov. was right and the order stands.  Suck it idiots.  https://www.kmbc.com/article/kansas-supreme-court-says-executive-order-banning-religious-service-of-more-than-10-people-stands-governor-laura-kelly-covid-19-coronavirus/32114710
• Rick Wiles says that Trump should seize abortion clinics and turn them into Covid centers and shut down Porn because the internet is overloaded in a push to impose his religious views on all America. - https://vimeo.com/405050553 (video)
• Ignoring the people that are physically dependent on alchohol and can't just stop cold turkey, and that many Liquor stores sell food to poor communities as well; pastor is whining about liquor store being able to stay open when his house of the sky fairy must close -https://newschannel9.com/news/local/pastor-its-not-fair-wicked-liquor-stores-can-stay-open-churches-encouraged-to-close
• The Jehova's Witnesses, not to be out-derped by the fundies, have told their faithful that they can not have plasma treatment for Covid - https://jwsurvey.org/news/jehovahs-witnesses-denied-plasma-treatment-amid-coronavirus-pandemic
• Finally!  Police in Kentucky show up at Packed easter service, issue citations, take plate numbers and require all participants to quarantine for 14 days - https://joy105.com/police-is-issuing-citations-at-a-packed-kentucky-church-and-nails-in-parking-lot/
• Once again, I don't think anyone detoxing from church can physically die.  At least they stayed in their cars. Idiots - https://bosonmassachusetts.blogspot.com/2020/04/risen-christ-here-in-my-car-if-beer-is.html
• Another pastor dies after claiming, "God is larger than this virus!" - https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pastor-dies-coronavirus-after-proclaiming-21855898
• Texas church is selling pool cleaner as a Corona cure.  The FDA is shutting them down before they kill people - https://cbs12.com/news/coronavirus/texas-church-told-to-stop-promoting-miracle-cure-for-coronavirus
• Despite a California church in Sacramento county having 71 cases of Corona from one of their gatherings a CA preacher is suing over "Religious restrictions".  Lock this fucker in that church with those 71 people and let him play the odds I say - https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/us/california-pastors-sue-church-restrictions/index.html
• Another bit of good news - Cuomo quote:  " Our behavior has stopped the spread of the virus. God did not stop the spread of the virus." - (link to youtube for cnn video) https://youtu.be/2OSwLSFow6k?t=129
• "Hey Let's take the entire church to Walmart so we can endanger the lives of our fellow humans.  It's ridiculous that we can't have church but we can go to Walmart to purchase food, medicine and supplies!  Doesn't the bible say that to put yourself and community at risk is the lords work?" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E6nqW6q4vk&feature=youtu.be