# Omnibus "religious people who think they control the virus" thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 29, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616 "2020-03-29T19:40:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/81 "2020-04-01T13:38:37Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Bit of a delayed reaction, though; isn’t it? God don’t punch clocks. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/82 "2020-04-01T14:04:11Z")
Remember: when bad things happen to other people, that’s God _punishing_ them. But when bad things happen to you, that’s God _testing_ you. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/83 "2020-04-01T17:14:43Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Remember: when bad things happen to other people, that’s God _punishing_ them. But when bad things happen to you, that’s God _testing_ you. \ Well isn’t that _convenient_. \ ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/84 "2020-04-01T17:23:51Z")
Lately, people have been hanging red scarves and such at their front doors. Some 21st century blood on the doorpost, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![SingleMalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/singlemalt/32/3961_2.png) [@SingleMalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleMalt)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/85 "2020-04-01T19:24:38Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Lately, people have been hanging red scarves and such at their front doors. Some 21st century blood on the doorpost, I guess. Nuts. I was planning on painting a slap-dash black cross on my front door if I contracted it. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/86 "2020-04-02T16:49:22Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [Another pastor is charged](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/03/31/us/louisiana-pastor-arrest-tony-spell/index.html). Police chief says And [Roy Moore to the rescue](https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/04/02/tony-spell-hires-al-judge-roy-moore-to-defend-him-holds-another-church-service/)! ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/87 "2020-04-02T17:15:57Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > And [Roy Moore to the rescue](https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/04/02/tony-spell-hires-al-judge-roy-moore-to-defend-him-holds-another-church-service/)! > [@](#): > > Let them all come to the church, then build a wall around it and issue a 90-day pray-in-place order. When they start begging for protective supplies, toss some bibles over the wall. I could get behind that. A lot of people believe the universe will bend to their will. Their ranks are going to be thinned. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/88 "2020-04-02T18:49:18Z")
The Governor of Florida issues a “stay at home” order, [but exempts religious services.](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-governor-religious-services-stay-at-home-order_n_5e860834c5b60bbd7350d1fc) WTF? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/89 "2020-04-02T18:54:46Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The Governor of Florida issues a “stay at home” order, [but exempts religious services.](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-governor-religious-services-stay-at-home-order_n_5e860834c5b60bbd7350d1fc) WTF? He’s letting God sort 'em out. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/90 "2020-04-02T20:03:29Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Lately, people have been hanging red scarves and such at their front doors. Some 21st century blood on the doorpost, I guess. It IS almost Passover! ---
**Author:** ![Webfoot75](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@Webfoot75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Webfoot75)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/91 "2020-04-03T11:27:32Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > He’s letting God sort 'em out. Beziers in 1209 had a mixed population of Catholics and “heretics”. The Abbott in charge of the attack is supposed to have said “Kill them all, God will know his own”. Wikipedia. ---
**Author:** ![Webfoot75](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@Webfoot75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Webfoot75)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/92 "2020-04-03T11:28:53Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > He’s letting God sort 'em out. Beziers in 1209 had a mixed population of Catholics and “heretics”. The Abbott in charge of the attack is supposed to have said “Kill them all, God will know his own”. Wikipedia. Sorry if I’m teaching you to suck eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/93 "2020-04-03T11:59:09Z")
To the highly religious, a church service, and many of them, is an essential service, and should be encouraged, even mandated. To the highly rational, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/94 "2020-04-03T12:55:12Z")
Eh, many “highly religious” are managing with online services and prayer meetings. I’ll be interested to see the Zoom backgrounds for Passover seders. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/95 "2020-04-03T12:58:25Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Eh, many “highly religious” are managing with online services and prayer meetings. I’ll be interested to see the Zoom backgrounds for Passover seders. Mine will have dinosaurs. Definitely dinosaurs. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/96 "2020-04-03T13:25:02Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I don’t know, I don’t regret the joke, which very clearly _is_ a joke, i.e. the notion that one can build up a tolerance to antifreeze as one might to alcohol, and further in the context of a Pit thread created specifically to mock ignorance. The receiver’s response is up to them. You’re Gilbert Gottfried in real life, aren’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/97 "2020-04-03T15:01:16Z")
We must not forget that, thanks to an … expansive … reading by the Supreme Court, corporations can now covered as “religious people”. So I bring you, for a encore, Hobby Lobby. Thanks to a vision from God that the owners’ wife had, they’re attempting to stay open, coercing workers to report for the apparently “essential” job of being paid like shit for putting your life and the life of everyone you come into contact with on the line for crafts. Colorado, at least, has the balls to issue a cease and desist letter to Hobby Lobby. [“You are directed to immediately close all Hobby Lobby locations within the State of Colorado,” the directive, signed by W. Eric Kuhn, senior assistant attorney general, said. “Immediate compliance is compulsory, and any future or continuing non-compliance will be subject to the full force and effect of injunctive relief.”"](https://www.denverpost.com/2020/04/01/colorado-stay-at-home-violations-coronavirus/). I’m kinda hoping Hobby Lobby files suit asserting a religious right to stay open despite the quarantine. That would be fun. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/98 "2020-04-03T16:08:45Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Eh, many “highly religious” are managing with online services and prayer meetings. I’ll be interested to see the Zoom backgrounds for Passover seders. With green-screen effects for the invisible prophet Elijah? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/99 "2020-04-03T16:37:18Z")
[I (whatever the opposite of “heart” is) Huckabee](https://www.joemygod.com/2020/04/huckabee-the-real-danger-is-from-the-virus-of-sin/? __cf_chl_jschl_tk__ =d39d37e39a178ff608b26d6b562fc4ccd6db5b21-1585931698-0-ARw2ubrA3W8HhKZ8fSvk3BKw5cEBaCM5meIvAOn6SPX0vdH-Ytceosu1VwLm2YN_k8Wlje81ZRmNk3TJ9yqgziS_cc0asd9RSlnPdVqjvYPf5nrj1q0_0DVT0ebejQRRk7wPt1qoQkrmHH9awqNNey1C7Yk3MR4ugCRztAgqVLaI5kKDru-HCjWhlXs_VOcVKH35hbPerpq-J5m1b3jUrqbceY_BG7NyFuMXSKQ_fcdae6pa2jnhLYz2WiqLxpAX-ygZDJILW6F7UarpZodX3gPmroFbz9b04aGBlsK_uF3t5znkbC_DEZTkV95ksA4Jnya81uetr9KYRq3aA5hEPc6nGmYEfDyb1NCX6pWp98g6). ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616/100 "2020-04-03T19:14:31Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > With green-screen effects for the invisible prophet Elijah? Elijah has to shelter in place for 14 days before he’s allowed in. Maybe a nice cave? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-people-who-think-they-control-the-virus-thread/850616.md?page=6)