Tag Archives: Christianists

Gothamist reports: Franklin Graham, the son of prominent minister Billy Graham, has specifically sought to recruit Christian medical staff to the Central Park facility. According to the group’s website, all volunteers, including health care workers, should read and adhere to a statement of faith, in which marriage is defined as “exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic …

Bloomberg News reports: Three pastors are challenging the constitutionality of a stay-at-home order issued by Texas officials in the county that includes Houston, saying the mandate improperly tramples on individual freedoms by closing churches and failing to designate gun stores “essential” businesses. The pastors — along with a conservative activist — filed a request with the Texas Supreme Court Monday …

The Tampa Bay Times reports: Worshipers gathered at a Tampa megachurch for services on Sunday, drawing a warning from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office about violating the safer-at-home order in place to limit the spread of coronavirus. A live stream on the River at Tampa Bay Church’s Facebook page showed congregants gathered for its Sunday morning “Main Event” service led …

Bloomberg News reports: Congregants of megachurches in Louisiana, Ohio and Florida attended services in defiance of social distancing orders on Sunday morning, even as politicians and doctors took to weekly news shows to warn of coronavirus’s spread in the U.S. In Louisiana, which has seen a spike in cases and has a shelter-in-place order, the Life Tabernacle Church in the …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Falwell — a staunch ally of President Trump and an influential voice in the evangelical world — reopened the university last week, igniting a firestorm, epidemiologically and otherwise. As of Friday, Liberty’s student health services Dr. Edward Eppes said, nearly a dozen Liberty students were sick with symptoms that suggest Covid-19, the disease caused …

Politico reports: In the statement published by the university on Monday, March 23, Liberty said Falwell “has been consulting with medical professionals daily, including Dr. Jeffrey Hyman of Northwell Health, New York’s largest health care provider.” On Wednesday, when I reached Dr. Hyman’s office for comment, an employee consulted with the doctor before speaking on his behalf and distancing Hyman …

“I destroy and completely abolish every demonic system set in operation against the financial system of the U.S. and the world. Every evil perpetrator trying to extinguish monetary success and economic abundance, I rebuke you and diffuse your plans and purposes against our economy. “I command every disease agent, virus and pandemic to be utterly abolished, completely done. I order, …

“The Lord has helped us to secure our congregation. We bought in 13 machines that basically kill every virus in the place. If somebody walks in the door, it’s like, it kills everything on them. If they sneeze, it shoots it down at like 100 mph. It’ll neutralize it in split seconds. So we have the most sterile building in, …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: End Times pastor Irvin Baxter appeared on “The Jim Bakker Show” yesterday, where he warned that the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak is a warning from God about the sin of fornication. “There are 7.5 million unmarried couples living together in the United States,” Baxter said. “That means 15 million people are living together unmarried, …

The Friendly Atheist reports: Yesterday, one of the first deaths of a Virginia resident from COVID-19 was a Christian musical evangelist who, believing the pandemic response to be anti-Trump “mass hysteria,” took his family to New Orleans to “wash it from its Sin and debauchery.” Landon Spradlin, 66, was an accomplished blues musician who pastored several different churches over the …

“God wants to deliver the USA from coronavirus by Easter as President Trump hopes, but this is dependent on people following Jesus Christ. “We know the Bible says people lose their souls by following false gods and from LGBT sin, and that disobeying God can cause sickness and plagues (Exodus 15:26, John 5:14). “Man and government cannot fix the coronavirus …

“Now people that are asymptomatic — you might have heard this, asymptomatic transmission, people that don’t have the symptoms — they aren’t contagious. “If people are asymptomatic, they don’t have the cough, they don’t have the respiratory issues, they don’t have a fever, they’re not contagious. And so they don’t need to be tested. “The good news is that we …

“They’re very anxious to pass this​, and they want to hold the Republicans hostage unless they will agree to sign off on universal vote-by-mail. Now, vote-by-mail, who do you think is going to be voting? “How do you know they’re going to be citizens? How do you know that they’re going to be voting their own ballot? “How do you …

Via press release from Christian Newswire: In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, pharmaceutical companies are racing to provide a vaccine to prevent further spread of the disease. Unfortunately, Moderna, the company that has been recently touted in news headlines for its developing mRNA-1273 vaccine to fight the virus, uses aborted fetal cells. Debi Vinnedge [screenshot above], Executive Director of Children …

The Alabama Reporter reports: Former chief justice and former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore is urging Americans “not to give in to fear.” “As you know, the Chinese virus has shaken our Country, created havoc in the stock market, and has left people asking the questions… what’s next?” Moore said on social media addressing his supporters. “As businesses remain closed …

Raw Story reports: The minister who hosts a weekly bible study session for President Trump’s cabinet has an opinion about the origins of the coronavirus. According to Ralph Drollinger, it’s just another form of God’s wrath in response to an increasingly progressive nation. Drollinger railed against the “religion of environmentalism” and people who express a “proclivity toward lesbianism and homosexuality,” …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida participated in an “urgent pastor briefing” last Thursday that was hosted by the Florida Family Policy Council, a religious right organization headed by anti-LGBTQ activist John Stemberger. Rubio, who has long supported Stemberger and his organization, revealed during the call plans to use the coronavirus stimulus package that …

Hemant Mehta reports at The Friendly Atheist: What are politicians doing to help people in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak? Republican State Rep. Stephanie Borowicz of Pennsylvania is doing her part by filing a bill, House Resolution 835, calling on everyone to pray and not eat. Because that’s how you defeat a virus in crazytown. This is theocratic wish …

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports: As the coronavirus threatens to spread across the Lynchburg region, Liberty University officials are preparing to welcome back up to 5,000 students from spring break this week. Defying a national trend of campus closures, President Jerry Falwell Jr. has invited students to return to residence halls and has directed faculty members to continue to report to …

From the editor of the Christian site First Things: Put simply: Only an irresponsible sentimentalist imagines we can live in a world without triage. We must never do evil that good might come. On this point St. Paul is clear. But we often must decide which good we can and should do, a decision that nearly always requires not doing …