Just ignore the Romans.
What're they gonna do if NOBODY listens to 'em.
Time to go Gandhi on these bitches.
Mrs Don-o, there is a call for you on the Courtesey Phone.
No. Just No.
Is the government trying to establish it's own brand of religious behavior?
Whatever happened to the separation of church and state?
Just ignore the Romans.
What're they gonna do if NOBODY listens to 'em.
Time to go Gandhi on these bitches.
Gee....where’s all that “separation of church & state”????
Is the government now forming its own religion now?
Tell em to go piss up a rope....backwards.
You can’t ban communion without banning all other food delivery and pizza places in those towns.
This is tyranny and must be overthrown.
It is illegal.
It is unconstitutional.
It is blatantly unamerican.
This is totalitarian hate and must be blatantly ignored
When will they be arrested and charged for violating the First Amendment?
The upside of this conversation, is at least authorities are trying to find ways to make a Church Service possible at all.
Since Easter, many Governors would ‘just say no’ to all attempts for group worship. Even Drive-In services were being shut down.
Perhaps in a few more weeks, more conditions will be modified, then removed.
Besides, people were starting to notice that few if any Mosques had been closed down by the cops. Thats unfair, even during Ramadan.
Time to call the bagpipes.
“Bill of Rights”, unless the governor says otherwise. Nah, I think we need to take back our country.
“Should” is a suggestion.
It does not equal “shall” or “must not”.
They actually need to be banning Communism.
And have they banned Ramadan feasts yet? FYI, Ramadan started April 23rd and ends on May 23rd this year. After abstaining from food and drink all day, after sundown “family and friends will get together for iftar to break their fast.”
....Instead, the health department recommended that the Baptists, Methodists and Catholics [and Orthodox?] “consider guiding parishioners in how to connect with the spiritual aspects of these practices during this phase.”....
This “health department” has NO UNDERSTANDING of the connection of Holy Communion with Christian spirituality!!!!
Violate it. When the brownshirts come in, sue the crap out of the government
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
This is BLATANTLY unconstitutional. IF this is allowed to stand without being challenged, it will become precedent setting.
Our church has disposable communion sets you pick up on the way into service. They can’t outlaw that.
How can they manage this?
Have the Knights of Columbus be the usher and release people six feet apart.
Easy.
I’m sure the non-Catholic Churches have a group of elders who could do the same.
The Resurrection is Against the Law
An excerpt from Bill Wylie-Kellermann’s classic Seasons of Faith and Conscience (1991).
The sealing of the tomb is, I believe, notoriously misunderstood. I grew up with a Sunday School notion that to seal the tomb was a matter of hefting the big stone and cementing it tight. The seal, in my mind’s eye, was something like first-century caulking–puttying up the cracks to keep the stink in. Not so. This is a legal seal. Cords would be strung across the rock and anchored at each end with clay. To move the stone would break the seal and indicate tampering.
The event conspicuously echoes the story of Daniel sealed in the den of lions. “And a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel” (Daniel 6:18). As there, this is a legal lock on the tomb door–not air tight, but politically tight. To move the stone and break the seal is a civil crime. The resurrection is against the law.
The seal is also a recurring theme in the book of Revelation. Remember the scroll of history sealed with seven seals? Only One is worthy to break them and look upon or unveil the truth: that One is the Lamb who was slain. The seal is a claim of ownership and authority. Its meaning in Revelation is at least that God in Christ reigns sovereign over all history and in all events.
Caesar, in Pilate, on the other hand, violently disputes the claim. He has set his seal of approval on Jesus’ death, and now he guarantees it with troops. Secured by security forces. When the seal is broken in the resurrection, it stands among the signs that the power of the powers (death in all its forms) has been broken. The dominion of political authority–especially inflated, aggressive–and imperial authority has been cut to the heart.