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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublican explains why he won't wear a mask:'It's part of the dehumanization of the children of God
May 28, 2020
By Matthew Chapman
On Thursday, CNN spoke with GOP lawmakers who refuse to wear masks and one of the more colorful responses came from Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA).
Can you smell through that mask? said Higgins. Then youre not stopping any sort of a virus. Its part of the dehumanization of the children of God. Youre participating in it by wearing a mask.
What youre wearing is a bacteria trap; its not helping your health or anybody elses, Higgins added.
In reality, medical experts have broadly recommended wearing face masks not to protect yourself from coronavirus, but to suppress transmission to other people in case you are carrying the virus without symptoms. COVID-19 spreads from particles carried by coughing, sneezing, or exhaling, and can be present before symptoms begin or even if they never develop.
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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/republican-explains-why-he-wont-wear-a-mask-its-part-of-the-dehumanization-of-the-children-of-god/
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Christ on a cracker. People better pull their heads out of their asses and stop electing nutbags like this guy or we're all doomed.
tanyev
(42,557 posts)29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the Lord. 30 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiant, and they were afraid to come near him. 31 But Moses called to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and he spoke to them. 32 Afterward all the Israelites came near him, and he gave them all the commands the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai.
33 When Moses finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face. 34 But whenever he entered the Lords presence to speak with him, he removed the veil until he came out. And when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, 35 they saw that his face was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the Lord.
New International Version (NIV)
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+34%3A29-35&version=NIV
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,693 posts)And other people can probably smell his farts through his pants. So maybe he shouldn't wear pants?
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,470 posts)Mooned moses it's in the bible
Lokee11
(235 posts)After reading what he said - definitely seems like he was talking out his ass?
FDT
TheBlackAdder
(28,194 posts).
When people say that the old should sacrifice themselves for the younger, freeing up capital. . .
That places a value on human life that they somehow state they are against.
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catbyte
(34,386 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)These people really do deserve a Great Tribulation.
They had better pray their rapture bullshit is true. If they fuck this world up and it isnt, their lives WILL BE HELL ON EARTH.
GoCubsGo
(32,083 posts)what "dehumanizing" really is:
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GemDigger
(4,305 posts)that he forgot a couple million of them.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)..he wants to meet Him at the earliest opportunity. And make sure lots of others do so as well.
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)putting human beings (aka "children of god" in cages and separating children from their parents or calling human beings "capital stock" or human casualties " collateral damage".
Not wearing a mask to protect others (and yourself) is not only foolish but very disrespectful and not at all in line with what Jesus taught in the Gospels about loving your neighbour. Of course people like you call yourselves a 'Christian' and get probably haven't actually read and meditated on what Jesus taught in the Gospels in decades.
JDC
(10,127 posts)Just like Jeezus used to do....