No, in a booth.
According to an article I read about a church in Arkansas, it’s to avoid issues with violating the Separation of Church and State.
What I don’t get is why the parent organization of said church, the Assemblies of God, hasn’t mandated it. All the AG churches around here are down, including one who initially said they were going to try to stay open. And the number of cases here is still under 5 in a population in the magnitude of 10000.
Said church in the above paragraph was also shamed by me on Facebook, for not following the Biblical mandate from God to keep the most vulnerable safe. In a kind way, of course, so they wouldn’t treat me as the devil.
I saw the WBC out picketing today, at one of their original sites, the intersection of 10th and Gage in Topeka. They were strolling up and down with their ugly signs, keeping proper social distancing. Hadn’t seen them in quite a while.
I remember back in the mid-90’s a friend of mine and I riled them up at that same location. We walked down the drive that comes closest to that site, where they had their cars parked. I pretended to take picktures of the cars, and my friend pretended to take down the license numbers. We were just playacting, but they saw us and started screaming something incoherent. Good times.
On a related note, I’m noticing a lot of ads for Billy Graham’s outfit at this time. I cannot stand these fuckers in the best of times, but here they are now preying on the desperate and gullible. Like sharks that smell blood in the water.
So they’re afraid that their god might make a mistake and strike one of them down! 
I pray to Joe Pesci…Joe Pesci came through on a couple of things that God was having trouble with.
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I just finished watching a replay of an old American Experience episode on the Spanish Influenza. One of the women interviewed who was a small child at the time, said that people in her neighborhood (Italian in Philadelphia) put crepe on the front doors: white for children; black for adults; grey for elderly.
Let’s, um, pray? that within this coming week these dangerously virulent fundies lose the lickdown sermon for the lockdown one before they become a national fucking threat.
Cynical prediction: vermin pastor somewhere will try this shit again in a week, National Guard come in (I mean yeah - no shit - anyone would be evil-stupid enough to pull this shit again a week later? naaaaa) to peacably dissemble proceedings; s.v.p. (said vermin pastor) then clamours for the oh-woe-is-me spotlight which most likely should pluck Tucker Carlson’s impressionable heartstrings, spinning this into yet another dumb shit-show whining about oppression of their Gaawd-given liberties.
And here are some whackaloons in my neighborhood.
I don’t think these people are going to stop unless you arrest them - for them, the police showing up is “points” for putting religion over secular authorities. Freedom of religion and assembly does not extend to endangering others, or at least it shouldn’t.
So what’s Michael’s Arts and Craft Stores excuse? They’re open, at least around here. According to their own issued statements, they ain’t closing either. I don’t blame Hobby Lobby for staying open, if their main competitor is also.
WAG-people are crafting to either make a little money or, more likely, as something to do while homebound?
Well, as far as I know Michael’s doesn’t claim a personal relationship with God like Hobby Lobby. So I would expect HL to show more of a love thy neighbor/heal the sick sort of vibe.
The Michael’s in my county got a visit from the sheriff who told them to shut down or face legal penalties. So they shut down.
Along with Hobby Lobby, JoAnn fabrics, and bunch of other businesses deemed non-essential.
It would be nice if government enforcement wasn’t required, but alas it’s seems to be needed.
Hasidic Funerals Still Drawing Huge Crowds, As Coronavirus Batters Ultra-Orthodox Neighborhoods
Maybe the Hasidics and other Ultra-Orthodox are smarter in your neck of the woods, but in my neighboring Brooklyn, the ignorance is still rampant. But hey, at least they won’t have to worry about getting vaccinated (yes, this is the same community that fought tooth and nail against city vaccination requirements, to the point where their religious schools had to be padlocked).
Our nightmare is over, folks. Pat Robertson has got this handled.
Howcome he didn’t evoke this power two months ago? Methinks it because it was mainly affecting those heathen Chinese and Iye-talians, not God-fearing Americans.
Looks like the photos from that article was taken on Halloween. What’s up with all those Jewish kids dressed up in costumes?
Based on his success with hurricanes, Virginia Beach hospitals should be scrounging up all the test kits and ventilators they can find.
Purim is the holiday where God demands that you get wasted. Not just tipsy, but to the point that you can’t read.
Let’s take a break from bashing religion for a moment to acknowledge that it isn’t all bad.