Part of it. Not the whole of it.
Nor is it required daily, or even weekly.
Look if your church wants to arrange things so that no one comes within 6 feet of each other that’s grand. Or if you all want to quarantine together - camp out together in the church with your Eucharist wine and wafers, but don’t leave the church building/grounds. have food and supplies delivered, so you won’t risk anyone else’s health. Or come up with something else that puts no one outside your group at risk. Have at it.
But your right to worship communally ends when/where your gathering puts not just you but other people at risk.
This notion that religion is being singled out is bullshit. It’s not. ALL gatherings/groups of people are being restricted right now. It’s not going to be forever. It should be until the pandemic is over.
We’ve already had religious leaders who insisted on holding group worship die of this disease, along with some of their “flock”. It’s not a theoretical risk, it’s very real. Why on earth would your church insist on risking the health and lives of its congregants?
Donald Trump is the leader of the Republican Party. He wants to end coronavirus restrictions. It’s hardly hyperbole or a broad brush to paraphrase that as a “why do Republicans” want to do so when the leader of the party wants to do so.
- Go buy yourself a loaf of bread and a bottle of wine.
- Search online for a congregation of your denomination that holds services online.
- Prior to the service, break off a small piece of bread, and pour a sip of wine into a small cup.
- Tune into the online service.
- When the priest/minister/whathaveyou blesses the bread and the wine, partake.
Not that challenging, really.
Especially given how quickly the vast majority of Republicans fall in line behind him.
That doesn’t work for Catholics. :dubious:
How so?
Since I have shown him all the major religions allow it to be done at home or on line, why argue?
Well,* the Pope* says it works, but who is he, anyway? :p:p
You’ve got to have an ordained priest say the words of consecration and do the transubstantiation thing.
Well, not according to this dude named Francis who wears a snazzy white hat.
She said she’s not a Roman Catholic or Church of England; she’s Anglican. Which I take to mean she’s in one of the formerly Episcopal churches that broke away because the Episcopalians decided that women and gays could be priests.
ETA:
Two, four, six, eight, time to transsubstantiate! 
And the Anglican church the same.
Some of the super-rich think they can hide out on a New Zealand island — Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
This would be a great time for a “Masque of the Red Death” moment.
I think it’s a little different. I think they actually do believe the scientists and the experts who say that Trump flubbed the response. What they’re doing is creating a distraction and a shift in focus, away from Trump’s failed use of federal resources and onto individual state governors and health care officials.
But beyond that, this is a coordinated act of defiance. The protestors themselves are saying that even if they believe the scientists, they’re going to defy the experts. They feel confident that, for whatever reason, they will find a way to survive. Their sense is that the headlines will shift away from the pandemic and more to the economic response. Trump will be the one championing the return to business and the libs will be the ones who are trying to keep the country in lockdown mode – the libs hate business and freedom and all that
Well, that, and his regular weekend golf game. That must be torturing him something fierce.
Substitute “supporters of this POTUS” for “Republicans” and read on.
They don’t. (cite)
They do. (image)
Supporting this POTUS defines their cult identity. (cite)
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What are the spiritual consequences of not taking communion on any particular day?
Ninja’d!
He can merely proclaim himself champion again and post more reward plaques, as usual. (cite)
Sounds like a back page advertisement in a 1920s magazine:
“Carrying out the Miracle of Transubstantiation…via RADIO!!!“
Respectfully, nobody asked you. The question is not about if Republican’s ideas are wrong. The question is “Why do Republicans want to end the corona virus restrictions?”
I’m getting tired of non-pit threads where somebody asks about why republicans think the way they do, genuine answers are given, and then the answers are attacked. It happens way too much.
Pretty soon you will not have any actual republicans answering questions, just democrats saying how they think what Republicans thing, with everyone agreeing on it, which is a stupidly masturbatory exercise.
I may have missed it, but does anyone know what the shutdown is costing the Trump Organization?
Since they seem to be mostly in hotels and golf courses, I can’t imagine they are doing well since supposedly they weren’t doing all that great even before the pandemic.
One figure I heard, I think maybe on The Majority Report with Sam Seder, was about a million per day (lost revenue and operating expenses, I imagine).
Although, I’m sure Trump would never allow his personal finances to affect his governmental decisions.