Pastor Who Disregarded COVID-19 Restrictions Citing 'Faith Over Fear' Loses Both Parents to Virus

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A Texas pastor who repeatedly questioned COVID-19 restrictions and continued to hold services during the pandemic lost both of his parents to coronavirus complications earlier this month.

Pastor Todd Dunn of Fort Worth's 2nd Mile Church was in the hospital on Dec. 7 when his 84-year-old father and 79-year-old mother passed within hours of each other. Both of the Dunns were parishioners at their son's church, and began to feel ill around Thanksgiving.

Dunn, whose social media posts have called the coronavirus restrictions a plot of "the Left" and a countermeasure against Christians in America, said in a recent interview that he was operating on bad information in the early days of the pandemic. When the pastor first urged "faith over fear" among his congregation, the coronavirus numbers in Texas were much lower, the threat more abstract.

“I do feel like the numbers were different in the spring and summer. And my opinion on it was based on the numbers that I saw back then,” Dunn said in an interview with the Dallas News. “I went seven months and didn’t know one person individually who had it. Now all of a sudden...For some reason there’s been a surge.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/pastor-disregarded-covid-19-restrictions-161409297.html



Too bad it couldn't have been him instead of his folks.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. It ain't real unless it kills a family member, standard con logic.

[marybourg]

2. A pastor who only believes what he sees!

I wonder how that works out.

[Blue_true]

23. Yes. Like temporary morgues being parked at some hospitals in July

was not a clue that COVID19 is nothing to play with. Typical conservative, they only believe there is a train coming down the tracks after they, or a close relative or friend get run over.

[malaise]

3. THIS

Too bad it couldn't have been him instead of his folks.

[unblock]

4. "For some reason" there's been a surge. If only we knew the reason.

[Mariana]

7. Yes, it's because he and many of his fellow preachers

keep telling their congregations that God wants them to cram themselves into their pesthole churches, and sing and hug and shake hands like like always.

This preacher's parents apparently insisted on attending church in person, in spite of their advanced ages and medical issues. Their church did make services available online. It's hard to have much sympathy for them.

[Ms. Toad]

9. one grain of rice on the first square in a chess board,

two on the next, four on the third. Seem pretty innocuous - it takes 21 squares to get to the first million and only one more to get to the second.

If only there was a class that taught basic arithmetic that everyone - even young children - could take to understand the power of doubling . . .

[gratuitous]

5. "Now all of a sudden, for some reason . . ."

Gee Pastor Todd, are you saying your medical expertise failed you? Something really worked in a mysterious way, didn't it?

[hatrack]

6. Oh, well, God must be testing him . ..

Of course, God really tested the shit out of his parents, so go figure.

[Mariana]

10. His parents weren't exactly innocent in all this.

They kept going to church in spite of the very clear danger to them of doing so. Who knows how many other people they infected,

[liberal_mama]

29. I went to his mother's Facebook page and she was a big Trumper, posted memes mocking masks

and hand sanitizer! And now she's dead.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

8. 'ronasplain all you want, you christo-fascist fool, it won't absolve

you of any of the sickness and death you caused to innocent people.

[Hav]

11. Chances are, his actions killed his parents

How does that feel?

"For some reason there’s been a surge."
Yes, because of aholes like him. He's worse than the individual maskholes throwing temper tantrums. He spread disinformation and organized super spreader events.

[tblue37]

19. He isn't acknowledging his own responsibility, though.

[Blue_true]

24. When has people like him ever has? nt

[Mariana]

21. He's already decided it isn't his fault. nt.

[JDC]

12. The lord works in mysterious ways, as they say I guess

"now all of a sudden, for some reason there is a surge"

wonder what the reason is Todd?

[UpInArms]

13. Dunn still doesn't believe there's anything he could have done different to help his parents.

Asshole

[Solly Mack]

14. Idiot

[Midnight Writer]

15. I used a staple gun on my nut sack, and "for some reason" I felt excruciating pain.

[struggle4progress]

16. ... Satan carried Jesus to Jerusalem, placed him on the highest point of the Temple, and said

"If you really are the Son of God, jump off! For scripture says: He will give his angels to watch over you; and with their hands, they will lift you up, so you do not dash your foot against the stones"

"And it is also written," replied Jesus, "that you shall not tempt the Lord your God" ...

Matthew 4

[LisaL]

17. For some reason there have been a surge?

If only we could figure out what that reason is.

[tblue37]

18. . . . "for some reason there's been a surge." Hmmm. Now what could that reason be?

[Politicub]

20. Under his eye.

[NCjack]

22. Good attempt at a "sciency" rationale. Vagally refers to "numbers" and

his "observations". Next time, Pastor Todd, get yourself a real public health scientist.

[Crunchy Frog]

25. I doubt he even gives a fuck. I certainly don't.