Posted on 03/18/2020 8:25:05 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
(CNN)On Tuesday night, just before the police arrived, Pastor Tony Spell stood in the pulpit of his Louisiana church and delivered a message to hundreds of worshipers before him and fellow believers around the world.
"I just want to encourage the religious world tonight, Amen!," Spell said in a sing-song voice, building to the crest of his sermon.
"Keep going to church! Keep on worshiping God! ... The church is a hospital for the sick! It's a place of healing for the brokenhearted!"
In holding services for so many followers at his Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge, Spell defied an emergency order by Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards banning public or private gatherings with more than 50 people to stop the spread of Covid-19. "I feel the Covid-19 scare is politically motivated," Spell told CNN. He estimated his church hosted about 300 people for Tuesday's service.
As the deadly pandemic spreads, houses of worship around the world -- from the Vatican to storefront mosques -- have closed their doors. But a few like Spell defiantly refuse, arguing that they have a right to worship as they please, and that, with fears of contagion upending our daily lives, we need divine aid and prayer now more than ever.
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Most Americans sense what is right and wrong. They don’t need to be “ordered” around. That means they don’t go out of their way to defy common sense, on the one hand, nor do they accept recommendations without question. I love this country.
What a sad photo.
I was thinking the pastor was right until he said this was politically motivated
And he had cured cancer and aids
And was handing out anointed hankies
Second what authority and justification does the gov have to suspend the first amendment rights of citizens? Justification would certainly require very very extreme circumstances and a virus that has killed less than two hundred people in the entire country does not even come close.
So he has cured aids and cancers
And is giving out anointed hankies?
Lol this us a charlatan
What a sad photo.
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The 2nd Amendment prevents that sort of abomination. That and 400M privately owned guns.
The probably also play with poison snakes at his church.
Some people are just born stupid and defiant. Eventually, it catches up with them. We hope.
Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge
And sure enough, I checked, it is a Pentecostal Apostolic Church. Crazy as pet bugs.
Some of the crap people call church in this country amazes me.
Selfish man. Totally unworthy of being a shepherd to his people.
Freedom of worship. If they want to go to church, let them.
But you don’t have to be in a church building to worship the Lord.
I’m hoping many good things will happen during this Wuhan virus. Home prayer meetings. Home Bible studies. Many more small gatherings for home church groups.
God is in control!
Agree
Do you have a date or information on this photograph?
What about “separation of church and state?”
“But you don’t have to be in a church building to worship the Lord.”
You sure don’t.
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GREAT post/pic. Thanks. HOORAY Pastor Tony Spell
535 CRIMINALS + propagandists ++++ = unbelievable misery on 330 MILLION citizens of the republic.
fool
and same for all who attended
they are not smart enough to live
“Second what authority and justification does the gov have to suspend the first amendment rights of citizens? “
EVERY state government has that power under General Powers.
When they are serious, don’t get in their way. They will shoot you.
That only works to suppress Church criticism of the govt. When it suits the govt there is no such thing. Just the opposite of what the Founders intended.
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