{"id":42179,"date":"2020-04-11T17:11:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T17:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42179"},"modified":"2020-04-11T17:11:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T17:11:12","slug":"numbskull-preachers-need-to-get-a-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42179","title":{"rendered":"Numbskull preachers need to get a grip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I hate speaking ill of men and women of the cloth \u2026 but the religious numbskulls around the country who are defying “stay at home” orders to celebrate Easter need to have their heads examined.<\/p>\n

I won’t mention their hearts, because they must think their hearts are in the right place by flinging open their church doors on Easter.<\/p>\n

These individuals claim to be trumpeting their “God-given right” to conduct worship services in churches full of parishioners. How does one cope with such nonsense?<\/p>\n

They have no right given by the Almighty to put others in jeopardy while we are in the midst of a fight against COVID-19, the strain of coronavirus that has killed tens of thousands of Americans.<\/p>\n

Local officials have issued orders that limit gatherings of human beings; they are instructing us to maintain proper “social distance” from each other to stem the rate of infection during this worldwide pandemic.<\/p>\n

That hasn’t stemmed the idiocy coming from some of these religious crackpots. They proclaim the First Amendment guarantee of religious freedom allows them to conduct these services, even though health officials issue dire warnings of the consequences of flouting these restrictions.<\/p>\n

Well \u2026 the First Amendment makes no guarantee of anyone’s right to jeopardize the health — and the lives — of other human beings.<\/p>\n

Scripture reminds us as well that we can pray without ceasing anywhere we wish<\/em>. We do not need to sit in a church pew to celebrate Easter. We are fully able to do that very thing in our living rooms.<\/p>\n

Thus, the religious goofballs are off their rocker by insisting that their parishioners must<\/em> flock to church on Easter.<\/p>\n\n

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I hate speaking ill of men and women of the cloth \u2026 but the religious numbskulls around the country who are defying “stay at home” orders to celebrate Easter need to have their heads examined. I won’t mention their hearts, because they must think their hearts are in the right place by flinging open their … Continue reading Numbskull preachers need to get a grip<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[9236,1503,9261,9288],"class_list":["post-42179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-easter","tag-pandemic","tag-stay-at-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42180,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42179\/revisions\/42180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}