A Virginia preacher believed 'God can heal anything.' Then he caught coronavirus.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Every day Landon Spradlin was growing weaker, and now, on the morning when he would leave New Orleans for the last time, the 66-year-old preacher and blues guitarist was unable to load his bags into the white Ford F-250 that was supposed to carry him home.

Racked by fits of coughing, the ordinarily talkative street minister said little as the Ford rolled east on the Twin Span Bridge across the wide, bright expanse of Lake Pontchartrain.

The world had changed since the Spradlins crossed the same bridge weeks earlier to begin their annual New Orleans street ministry. The couple from rural Gretna, Va., had arrived Feb. 18, several days before President Trump declared on Twitter that the novel coronavirus was “very much under control in the USA.” They left on March 16, the same day the president would recommend that Americans stop gathering in groups of more than 10.

“I don’t believe there are incurable diseases. God can heal anything,” Landon said during an interview at a 2016 motorcycle rally in Daytona Beach, Fla. “There are documented cases of God healing AIDS. God can cause limbs to grow out where they’ve been chopped off. God can raise the dead.”

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[Demovictory9]

1. he has "bad lungs', suffered bouts of bronchitis, pneumonia, severe asthma YET exposed himself toC19

Landon had bad lungs, and when he began wheezing in the days after Mardi Gras he assumed it was one of the periodic visitations of bronchitis, pneumonia or severe asthma he endured. Jean, who is 63, came down with a slight fever and shortness of breath.

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he was definitely in the category of people who need to stay home.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

3. "he was definitely in the category of people who need to stay home."

god, let him down!

[sprinkleeninow]

2. he pushed God's envelope and tested Him...

foolish...

[Moostache]

4. Tots and 'pears...yawn.

One more Darwin Award winner in a year chock full of them...

For once in my life, the universe seems to hear my pleas to make 'teh stoopid' hurt.
Tough break Landon...no different to me than a snake handler getting bit and biting the dust.

[brewens]

5. Good thing for him it's actually good to be dead. He won't get the 72 virgins like the other guys,

but I'm told heaven is really great.

[Nature Man]

6. limitless cheap beer and poker machines in Heaven

[Amishman]

7. yes, but 'can' does not mean 'will'

God helps those who help themselves.
God also gave us a brain for a reason, and He expects us to use it.

Sounds like Landon was unworthy.