Found on the Facebook page for this church. Substitute “Church” for “Post” and this is pretty accurate.

It’s Sunday again, and we’ve had quite the week. I’ve been sitting back and watching church leadership nation wide and internationally struggle with the issue of holding on site services. To show up, or to keep the social distancing and quarantine guidelines?

Even after that pile of confused messes that were press conferences on the COVID 19 by President Trump where he shook hands and behaved oddly it seems that most churches are taking this seriously. Most are either cancelling services altogether or opting to do do online streaming. Sensible solutions in sensitive times.

Well, this is awkward!

Even the Catholic churches are opting not to have services in many places. This is an unprecedented move for Catholicism considering they didn’t even close in the past for things like Yellow Fever outbreaks and all the way back to the Black Plague.

But here’s what craziness is happening in Evangelicalism. I found this church’s arrogant thoughtless idiocy on Hemant Mehta’s The Friendly Atheist this morning. I had to take a deeper look at this.

New Life Christian Center of Austin, Indiana has decided to take their governor’s ban on gatherings of more than 250 people and piss right on it. Thumb their noses and expose their people, and their ignorance at the same time. In the snarkiest possible way, of course, because Jesus values pastors being sarcastic from the pulpit.

The craziest thing about the entire thing is that the church leadership wants sick people to attend, literally the same people that the federal and state governments are urging to self-isolate to protect themselves against the virus and protect everyone else from their germs.

Even Bethel Redding and their Healing Rooms isn’t so callous and playing so dangerously with public health.

Isolation that the government wants is a very different thing that operating from fear. Most people have the brain power to understand that social distancing protects the most vulnerable in our populations, which is loving them, not operating in fear. He can stick his fear-mongering insanity in the trashcan.

Interestingly enough their stunt is backfiring and they are receiving the opposition and censure of the world on their Facebook page. Too bad there is no law in place to charge the pastor with endangering the population. A nice little stint in the county pokey might just have the desired effect.

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