Friday, May 15, 2020

Send Trump's Bible Banging Science Deniers To Church

Op Ed: Don't these idiots know that all the biblical evidence points to Trump being the anti Christ? Check out Trump The AntiChrist.

I am all for opening the hard core Christian holy roller evangelical churches. Let's put Jesus to the test and see if he can defy science and protect his Bible thumpers from COVID-19.

Since Jesus never existed, church goers will not be protected by the omniscient omnipotent invisible man in the sky who allegedly created everything including all infectious diseases.

I would urge all Trumpers to trust in Jesus and go back to church.

United States cases

Updated May 15 at 4:49 PM local

Confirmed

1,464,060

+27,370

Deaths

87,603

+1,757

Recovered

255,510

+8,080

Bible Banging Trump Supporters "Fear" the 'Mark of the Beast' from a coronavirus vaccine

Peggy Popham gets her flu shot every year, despite her daughter Laura’s opposition to vaccines.

“I’m 70 and I’ve gotten sick before,” said Popham. “I don’t have a great immune system.”

Popham, who spoke to Yahoo News by phone while quarantining at home in Asheville, N.C., acknowledges that the same factors put her at risk for the coronavirus. “Of course,” she said, she’s worried about contracting COVID-19.

But she’s more worried about a possible vaccine for it.

“Absolutely not,” she said. “I would not take the vaccine.”

That’s a view shared by nearly one in five Americans, according to a recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll, which found that an additional 26 percent weren’t sure if they’d take it. Some of them no doubt have been influenced by the anti-vaccine disinformation that has been spreading for more than a decade on social media — although that has been directed primarily at routine childhood immunizations and their hypothesized link to autism. Popham’s reasons aren’t medical: They are religious and political.

Demonstrators demanding that their church reopen during a protest on May 1 in San Diego. (Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images)

Popham believes that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert on the administration’s coronavirus task force, is part of the “deep state” along with Bill Gates, another prominent villain of coronavirus conspiracy theorists. She believes their interest in developing a coronavirus vaccine is “driven by money” as well as “a socialist agenda” designed to “get control of us.” Based on research she’s done online, Popham thinks it’s likely that the vaccine will include some sort of human tracking device.

“It will keep track of us,” she said. “Kind of like in the end days, as the Bible says, you’ll be numbered.”

Popham, who described herself as a lifelong Republican, said that while her beliefs about the coronavirus vaccine “have a lot to do with my political views,” they also “go along with my faith.”

And although she suspects the worst of Fauci, rattling off bits and pieces of several conspiracy theories and debunked claims that have proliferated across the internet in recent weeks, she considers her views well grounded, and rejects the extremist position that the entire pandemic is a gigantic hoax — although she believes the death count, now over 85,000 in the United States and more than 300,000 worldwide, is “exaggerated.”