Thoughts and Prayers: The Religion Thread

Just stopped by to post this. I haven't read it but it fits this thread.



Mine has a picture!

 

Even as many colleges and universities closed in response to the coronavirusthreat, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. went on Fox News on Friday morning to suggest the virus was a plot to undermine President Trump and to say his school would open as usual when students return from spring break on March 23.

“It’s just strange to me how so many are overreacting,” Falwell said, comparing media coverage of the novel coronavirus to coverage of earlier epidemics. “It makes you wonder if there’s a political reason for that. Impeachment didn’t work, and the Mueller report didn’t work, and Article 25 didn’t work. And so maybe now this is their next attempt to get Trump.”

Falwell also speculated in the “Fox & Friends” interview that North Korea and China may have cooperated on a secret plot to spread the virus without offering evidence to support his baseless rumor, which he attributed to a restaurant owner.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...b23a58-654e-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html



Control group. Sacrifice for others, that’s the basis of god’s divine plan.

 

Mine announced this week that it was shutting down -- as in, don't go to the church for anything -- no services, no meetings, no work, no life groups, nothing -- until further notice.

There have been no confirmed cases of coronavirus in my area, and I kind of think this is a bit much. I believe churches that may be doing this are, essentially, just trying to be not only proactive, but also just, well, community-minded as it were, by showing a willingness to participate in the social distancing that seems to be the current rage in attempts to keep crowds from gathering, and hopefully, the virus from spreading.

 

I'm not interested in playing "Gotcha!" and pointedly insulting other individuals, or getting insulted myself, with every post, which is what you tend to do.

Tell me what you know that would enlighten me. That's the point of a discussion.

I've shared more than most on here so that people might see or get where I'm coming from, and see that I'm not coming from a place of total ignorance or lack of exposure or interest, which is where most "ignorant" people are. I've pointed people in the direction of reading that I believe has taught me a lot, and that I would recommend to anyone wanting to know what I've learned.

I'd suggest you doing the same, and then we can actually get back to this discussion.

 

$$$$ for tax-exempt churches. Fear-induced $$$$.

 

Someone is going to get primaried. Good for him or her.

 

Thoughts and prayers for the Trumpists’ favorite DC museum.

 

Do they have a piece of the real cross. My 3rd grade teacher said she did

 

How else am I going to prove I'm down with my fellow kids?

 

Guess you won’t be hearing the believers voice of victory, then. So sad for you!