First of all, this no one is forcing anyone to go. This is covered in something called the Constitution. Once the 2nd amendment got attacked full square by a major political party, now all bets are off because nothing is sacrosanct. Our speech is the next to go, and religion is already under attack. People don’t just want to live...they want to LIVE the life they choose. They take risks every day driving a car. When you say this gives Christians a bad name, what you are saying is that we should be sheep like the characterize us to be. To christians, death is not the worst thing that can happen to you.
True. But...”they” will say that these people exercising their free will somehow mysteriously will carry this virus around and then spread it to others....
These Fearpers have an excuse for everything. We can already see their apologies for the will ass guesses that were made to scare everyone over the last 6 weeks. But they have hope, the hope that soon...very soon....everyone gonna die....
We both know that the only real risk here is the fallout from economic collapse.
[[They take risks every day driving a car.]]
True- but they take common sense precautions too- they don’t drive blindly- and folks don’t go to leper colonies and hang out for a couple of hours a day, at least not without taking very reasonable precautions
[[When you say this gives Christians a bad name, what you are saying is that we should be sheep like the characterize us to be.]]
I didn’t get that from what he said- My interpretation of his comment was that Christians should exercise reasonable precautions, while still maintaining their religious freedoms- for instance, we’ve seen reports of folks going to churches and staying in their cars, listening to the radio of live sermons, or perhaps a loudspeaker playing to the cars outside- Everyone gets to hear the message while endangering noone (many church goers are elderly folks)
[[To christians, death is not the worst thing that can happen to you.]]
That is true, but why rush it for others by infecting them possibly? I know that if i had the virus, and went to church, and a person with compromised immune system got it and died- that would be on my conscience- forever- not something I’d want to live with- people are downplaying this, but a church in Arkansas held a gathering and more than 3 dozen people got the virus - Did- they all come from that meeting? Perhaps not- but perhaps many did- We don’t know- they all got sick around the same time apparently-
Another church gathering for choir practice in Washington saw 45 people get sick and 2 died- I think the original poster is just calling for common sense about things like this- at least that’s how i understood their post- I don’t think they meant we should all be sheep- there are safe ways to hold services while the virus is spreading-