Georgia Church Recloses After COVID Hits Parishioners

They must all be practicing homosexuals and abortionists. Why else would go react this way?

*god

They should have known they have high risk parishioners.

So bizarre... I haven't been to church in a long time, but, doesn't Miss God frown on attempted suicide/ attempted murder, that's what these loons are doing by deliberately spreading disease.

I was raised Southern Baptist....God loathes us.

Baptists are fucking weird. I know nothing of their particular beliefs but I've lived in Texas almost my entire life and they are everywhere. Judgmental, hypocritical, repressed, just a big ole mess.

They did prove that God exists but probably not in the way they intended.

Catoosa Baptist Tabernacle. If ever the name of a church sounded low-brow, it’s that one.

At least this church had the sense to close its doors after an outbreak!

Other churches have refused to do so. Gotta keep that collection plate going!

Keep reopening the church every few weeks until there is nobody left standing.

[quote] Though we feel very confident of the safe environment we are able to offer in our facilities, the decision was made … that we would discontinue all in-person services again until further notice in an effort of extreme caution for the safety and well-being of our families.

Does anyone else see the lunacy in that statement?

Baptists are big on the term "tabernacle". You rarely hear that term used in other religions.

Mormons use it too but I've never heard anyone else use it.

Gee, shocking.

r6 I agree.

I can't put my finger on it exactly, but many adults I've met who were raised Southern Baptist (and some who were still practicing) had a certain arrogance about them, especially the men. Hard to explain, but I knew it when I saw it, and their Southern Baptist roots are what linked them.

They think they are the only ones going to heaven and everyone else is straight to hell. Good works mean nothing to them. As long as " you accept jesus as your lord and savior" all is forgiven and you can do as you will except dance, drink, gamble and screw for fun. Cheating, backstabbing, malicious gossip are a-ok.

Yes Mormons use it, but I think only on that one building in Salt Lake City. It's sort of like their term for "Cathedral". Black Baptist churches in the south are really big on the term.

In Atlanta we have the old deconsecrated Baptist Tabernacle downtown that is now a major performance venue. But many of us just call it "the Tab".

Dey dun got rap-chawed!

My father’s people from around Ashland, AL, were hardshell Methodists..at least as uptight as baptists, and even more intolerant. The amount of closeted homosexuality, untreated manias and obsessions, and alcoholism and drug abuse was simply immense. Here in liberated college town Iowa, tho, I’m safe. Live and let live. They sure know how to do a big fried chicken Sunday dinner and raise nice vegetable gardens down there though.

It doesn't look like a low-brow church. And "Catoosa" is the Indian name of the county it's located in up in the N. Ga. mountains.

It's in the Georgia suburbs of Chattanooga, Tn.

Hardshell Alabama Methodists are crazier and stricter. My dad’s people. Closeted perversions and drunkenness are also endemic. And I’m not talking about homosex, I’m talking PERVERSION

[quote]It doesn't look like a low-brow church.

I question your brow r20.

Well it doesn't look like the handle snakes there.

Well it doesn’t look like they handle each others’ snakes there. Much.

Fixt it fer ye.

This is the second time today I've heard of parishioners of a church that adamantly said they were not going to obey state orders and now have Covid cases.

Was this a black church or a white church?

White

You're right, OP. God is a Catholic. Fuck those heathenish evangelicals.

I think r16 nails the Southern Baptist arrogance I've encountered

[quote] This is the second time today I've heard of parishioners of a church that adamantly said they were not going to obey state orders and now have Covid cases.

Yup, some waiting until the priest died.

What? You mean spending time in an enclosed room with hundreds (ok, dozens) or other people might not be a good idea during a pandemic?

No, there has to be a mistake. Shouldn't their god protect them from getting sick? Didn't several ministers say he would?

Same thing happened in the Trump country part of N California in violation of the SAH order. 180 people exposed during a mothers' day service by an individual who couldn't wait to get test results. S/he got positive test results the following day. The pastor is unrepentant because Jesus.

I tried to post the link, but I keep getting an error message. Google Butte County church and it's the first result.

[quote] Butte County

You really can’t make this shit up.

Dumbass Kristians go first! It is the Rapture.

I can smell the Aquanet through my tablet screen.

Hypokrites!

Hypokrites!

You're next, California.

A group of pastors claiming to represent tens of thousands of congregants say they're opening the doors of their churches at the end of the month despite a state order to keep them closed.

More than 1,200 pastors in California have signed a petition that says they will resume in-person services beginning on May 31. That would defy the state's stay-at-home order, which was enacted to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.

"We believe you are attempting to act in the best interests of the state, but the restrictions have gone too far and for too long," attorney Robert Tyler, who represents the pastors and the thousands of churches and ministries they lead, wrote in a letter to California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Under Newsom's current plan, churches would be allowed to reopen in Stage 3. But the state is currently in the early portion of its Stage 2 road map to reopen. Newsom has been under increasing pressure by the state's faith-based institutions to reopen. "In order to restore the proper balance between public safety and individual liberties, the clergy we represent have declared their intent to begin holding in-person church services beginning on Sunday, May 31, 2020," the letter stated. "All services will be held in compliance with CDC and state guidelines for social distancing as is required of 'essential businesses.'"

In my world, after all the parishioners are in the church, the doors get locked from the outside.

You want to go to church so badly? Fine. Now you stay there.

One of our local television stations sent a crew out to interview congregants as they arrived at a church which adamantly refused to close. The reporter would hold the microphone with a six-foot rod. Most of the churchgoers were flippant. Several said "they were bathed in the blood of Jesus" and would never catch the virus. "Jesus wouldn't let the virus come into the church building."

I am eager to hear some of the churchgoers caught the virus in church, but I'm still waiting. Not that I want them to catch the virus. I'm a big fan of hubris.

Sadly, catching it or having a loved one suffer or die is the only way these people will learn. Of all of Jesus Christ's teachings, humility is right up there. But these folks don't get it and behave with such brash arrogance it's jaw-dropping. The only way they are teachable is through humiliation and pain.

Ya know it's going to take not just infections, but deaths of "righteous Christian folks" before they truly get it. Even so some won't because they come from generations of poor education. No deadlier a combination than arrogance and chronic ignorance.

They should all drink the Kool Aid and become martyrs.

If God is Catholic he is really pissed off at these priests in Houston. The same thing happened here-- a church reopened and everyone got sick.

Reopen church? We just looked at the pandemic as a way to stay home, drink, plan our next abortions and divorces!

Guess they’ll just have to get on their knees next to their bed! I’m sure more than half of the congregants are familiar with such an exercise!