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NOVEMBER 22, 2020 BY THE CONVERSATION Moral combat: Do you wear a face mask to show you care about others? Or do you refuse because you believe they defy human nature?Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images By Eugene Y. Chan of Purdue University Governments around the world have recommended or mandated various behaviors to slow the spread of COVID-19. These include staying […]
OCTOBER 2, 2020 BY BARRY DUKE USA TODAY carries this headline ‘May God’s healing powers touch them’: Twitter reacts after President Donald Trump announces he and Melania are positive for COVID-19.’ While it’s indeed true that Twitter has gone into a prayer frenzy over the news that Trump has been forced into quarantine, there are some pretty snarky messages […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in California argued back in May that two months of abiding by lockdown orders was enough and churches should go back to meeting in person despite the COVID threat. Last month, he wore a combat helmet to make the case that Christians were under attack. Because […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 A pastor who said face masks were useless against COVID and opened up his church to in-person worship services during which masks were optional… is currently in the hospital recovering from COVID. So is his wife. So are five other staffers at the church. Maybe the most interesting thing about this […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 Pastor John MacArthur is now comparing California Gov. Gavin Newsom to Hitler… because the governor is trying to save lives during the pandemic. MacArthur has been in the news lately because of his constant refusals to stop holding massive indoor church services or even take the virus seriously. He’s celebrated the lack of social distancing […]
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Schadenfreude: An Idaho pastor who mocked the idea of wearing a mask and kept his large church open for services without requiring masks despite a mask mandate has been hospitalized with the COVID-19 virus. Paul Van Noy, senior pastor at Candlelight Christian Fellowship in Coeur d’Alene, has been hospitalized in […]
SEPTEMBER 13, 2020 BY BARRY DUKE LAST Sunday Rev Robert Altier, above, of the Church of St Raphael in Crystal, Minnesota, claimed that people were ‘being lied to’ regarding COVID-19 – then trotted out a bunch of bullcrap about about the virus. Altier said the virus has been engineered and its effects have been blown out of proportion. […]
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020 BY LEAH D. SCHADE The story of university professor Paola De Simone collapsing and dying of Covid-19 while in the middle of an online lecture to her students is both disturbing and heartbreaking. A college professor in Buenos Aires, Argentina, De Simone had been battling symptoms of the coronavirus for several weeks. While delivering an online lecture […]
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Trump Lied People Died: Trump knew that COVID-19 was highly contagious, airborne, and deadly as early as the beginning of February, but did nothing about the virus except downplay the danger, lulling many Americans into a false sense of security, and ultimately costing tens of thousands of lives and a […]
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 BY THE CONVERSATION A vaccine for COVID-19 may only effectively stop the spread if enough people take it.Javier Zayas Photography/Getty Images By Ross D. Silverman of Indiana University The longer COVID-19 rages on, the more the United States appears to be hanging its hopes on the development and rapid, mass distribution of a vaccine. Getting a safe and effective vaccine out to […]
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 BY JONATHAN MS PEARCE In the run-up to the 2014 midterm elections, Republican David Perdue excoriated President Barack Obama over his handling of the Ebola outbreak — contending that Obama had “failed to lead” and “took a serious threat far too lightly.”… Before he won his first term in 2014, Tillis railed against Obama over […]
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020 BY FR. MATTHEW P. SCHNEIDER, LC Archbishop Viganò was the papal nuncio in the USA years ago but has recently come to fame for various letters he’s written in retirement. He started by revealing a possible cover-up of clerical sexual abuse. However, has slowly gotten further from mainstream Catholicism in what he writes. […]
AUGUST 30, 2020 BY BARRY DUKE AN INDIANA barbecue restaurant ‘owned by God’ and run by Jesus-besotted Matt Yergler has been closed by the Wells County Department of Health for failing to comply with COVID-19 safely rules. The closure notice served on Yergy’s State Road BBQ came after Yergler delivered a sermon at a Board of Health meeting, saying: God has given […]
AUGUST 29, 2020 BY BARRY DUKE AN ardent Brexiteer who claimed Britain would be put back on the path to godliness after it left the European Union, has launched a petition calling for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to hold a National Day of Prayer in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Evangelist David Hathaway, above, noted that: Historically only prayer […]
AUGUST 3, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Toxic Religion: Hundreds have been forced into quarantine after an irresponsible priest who frequently mocked legitimate fears of COVID-19 was hospitalized with the virus. Before being hospitalized, the priest, Monsignor Charles Pope, would frequently berate Catholics who chose to stay away from mass under the advice of medical professionals and […]
JULY 26, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Selling Snake Oil: A COVID outbreak is being linked to a Bible conference held by televangelist Andrew Wommack, who recently promised his followers that Jesus protects Christians from the coronavirus. Westword reports: Colorado Springs-based Andrew Wommack Ministries followed up a six-day conference with a celebration attended by over 800 people, despite an attempt […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA JULY 29, 2020 About a week after declaring California’s sensible COVID restrictions “tyrannical,” worship leader and MAGA cultist Sean Feucht held an outdoor Christian concert for (what he claims is) 5,000 people. You can see from the video that very few people are wearing masks. There sure as hell is no social distancing; people are […]
July 29/2020 Ronald Durham Anderson Cooper calls Trump a ‘snake oil salesman’ for touting doctor who believes in ‘demon sperm’ CNN’s Anderson Cooper discusses President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus and a video he retweeted featuring a group of doctors making false claims about the coronavirus.
JULY 18, 2020 BY BARRY DUKE IN A move that proves the Republicans haven’t quite cornered the market in religious lunacy, Louisiana’s Democratic Catholic Governor John Bel Edwards, above, has asked people living in the Pelican state to embark on a three-day prayer initiative in the fight against COVID-19. At a press conference on Thursday, Edwards asked all […]
A Florida father is fighting for his life after contracting coronavirus from his son, who tested positive after ignoring his parents’ advice to stay home and not gather with friends. John Place, from Plantation, is currently in the intensive care unit at Westside Regional Medical Center where he was put on a ventilator for more than two weeks. The […]