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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Wed Apr 8, 2020, 09:23 AM Apr 2020

'Death is a welcomed friend': Pastor calls on Christians to defy coronavirus lockdown -- even if it.. [View all]

..kills them

Spell was charged with violating an executive order that bans churches from holding large gatherings, but showed his defiance last Tuesday by holding a service that was attended by over 1,000 people. Speaking to TMZ, Spell said that true Christians would be willing to die from coronavirus, adding that those who “prefer tyranny over freedom do not deserve freedom.”

“The bible teaches us to be absent from our bodies so we can be present with the Lord,” Spell said. “So like any revolutionary, or like any zealot, or like any pure religious person, death looks to them like a welcomed friend.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/death-is-a-welcomed-friend-pastor-calls-on-christians-to-defy-coronavirus-lockdown-even-if-it-kills-them/]

Fucking dangerous idiot. He not only wants to sacrifice his own religious community but the wider community that his congregants mix with @ work etc. If they go to church and end up dead they made their choice, but how dare they make that choice for everyone they mix with in the wider community. Bloody literal death cult. Zealots are so exhausting.
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The cult of the holy victim demands sacrifice. Zoonart Apr 2020 #1
sure, what are few deaths to own the libs... Thomas Hurt Apr 2020 #4
It's always been a death cult. Iggo Apr 2020 #17
Fundamentalists can follow their Jim Jones to the gates of Hades. no_hypocrisy Apr 2020 #2
Religion Pantagruel Apr 2020 #3
"Don't be afraid to die" -- Jim Jones C_U_L8R Apr 2020 #5
End times Bullshit. gibraltar72 Apr 2020 #6
Drinking the kool-aid Major Nikon Apr 2020 #7
Jim Jones! Firestorm49 Apr 2020 #8
This is based on greed and power. LonePirate Apr 2020 #9
Stupid asses. S.E. TN Liberal Apr 2020 #10
Asshole religious freaks need to be locked up SheltieLover Apr 2020 #11
In the words of Sappho WhiteTara Apr 2020 #12
On second thought WhiteTara Apr 2020 #13
Only religion does this Cartoonist Apr 2020 #14
Him first. AtheistCrusader Apr 2020 #15
Grifters gonna grift. Iggo Apr 2020 #16
"Today I ask heaven and earth to testify against you, for I set before you struggle4progress Apr 2020 #18
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