The danger of religious gatherings
God’s eye is not on the sparrow.
Pastor Gerald O. Glenn, founder and bishop of the New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Chesterfield, Virginia, died on Saturday evening after contracting the novel coronavirus, his church announced on Facebook.
Why it matters: Glenn snubbed social distancing guidelines and warnings about the danger of religious gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic, even after Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam issued a stay-at-home order on March 30.
Glenn’s wife has tested positive for the virus.
Maybe God’s eye is on the sparrow, he’s simply got bored with his pet humans so he’s giving the virus an audition for the chance to take our place.
AoS, when I was a kid, there was always an ongoing debate about how God would choose to destroy the world next time. Flood was out, as per rainbow. Half the family thought fire. The other half thought ice. Me? I always suspected it would be bacterial. Maybe I was close.
And there are still church-goers who insist that somehow sweet baby Jesus will protect them from infection and death. You can’t have it both ways, church-goers. Either you’re under a spell of divine protection, or you’re not–and the evidence is pointing towards “not”.
Was Glenn one of those “God sent (…) to punish The Gayze? If so, what a sad way to “come out”.
His site is instructive: http://www.ndec.net/
An empty YouTube channel and a donation page with several options, none of them for good causes.
Just to be extra ironic, hundreds of Hasidic Jews attended the funeral of a rabbi who died from COVID-19.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-hasidic-jews-rabbi-funeral-brooklyn-social-distancing/