Good article about why Evangelicals resist the facts about COVID, and science.
I Was An Evangelical Christian, And I Know Why Many Of Them Resist Logic About COVID-19
The basic premise of this article is, ‘God will protect me’, which is what Christians love to think, and the author tells how the more they researched the further they went from the word’, finally forsaking it.
The problem with fervency is it led to in-depth Bible-reading and searching out secondary sources to support my beliefs. Both flung me into a decade of deconversion. I’m currently a skeptic, because facts don’t support the ‘beliefs’.
Over 50% of Christians believe they don’t need a mask or a vaccine, because God will protect them. And then they become carriers of the coronavirus.
This kind of spiritual terrorism is showing up on a national scale and, as in my own faith journey, only reason can get us out.
And in a related article, about a no-masker pastor in Idaho, who’s fighting for his life on a ventilator, after infecting others.
A pastor in Idaho who called himself a "no-masker" during a service and repeatedly questioned the veracity of coronavirus case reporting is in the ICU after contracting Covid-19.
Paul Van Noy, senior pastor at Candlelight Church in Coeur d'Alene, has spent two weeks in the hospital with a Covid-19 diagnosis, ministry coordinator Eric Reade confirmed to CNN. Five other church staff were infected with coronavirus.
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