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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStupidity rampant in NM megachurches.
https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/albuquerque-megachurches-fined-5k-for-violating-public-health-orders/5962802/"ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Legacy Church and Calvary Church are both facing $5,000 fines for violating the state's public health order.
Videos and photos posted online have gone viral showing hundreds gathered at both churches during Christmas Eve services with almost no masks in sight."
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Stupidity rampant in NM megachurches. (Original Post)
triron
Dec 2020
OP
Churches value the tithes from their parishioners more than the lives of their parishioners.
LonePirate
Dec 2020
#2
Legacy Church sued NM earlier this year & brazenly posted video of Christmas Eve
lunasun
Dec 2020
#9
nykym
(3,063 posts)1. Besides charging the churches
the authorities should set up a checkpoint and fine each parishioner as they leave.
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)2. Churches value the tithes from their parishioners more than the lives of their parishioners.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,649 posts)18. The word "tithes" is Latin for "gravy train"
GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)3. And you're surprised because?
Mariana
(14,860 posts)6. Churches have been spreading the virus since the beginning of the pandemic.
No one should be the least bit surprised anymore at this behavior. Churches are pestholes.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)8. Churches have been spreading germs since before the Black Plague.
Arne
(2,069 posts)4. May they all be Raptured please.
Wounded Bear
(58,699 posts)5. Tax the churches...nt
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)7. Paging Charles Darwin, cleanup in aisle 11...
lunasun
(21,646 posts)9. Legacy Church sued NM earlier this year & brazenly posted video of Christmas Eve
More than one church too who knows how many met in other churches with no media posts
Link to tweet
?s=21
Legacy Church how did you get the message from above that this was a good thing to do ?
or to not wear masks ?
We have taken the pandemic seriously from the start, and have prudent measures in place. But when governments exceed their constitutional authority and contradict what we are called on by God to do, we answer first to His authority.
Arne
(2,069 posts)12. Maybe the candle burns up their Spittle. n/t
bdtrppr6
(796 posts)10. a $5000 fine ain't stoppin shit
drop in the bucket for megachurches, just beg for more tax free dollars from the rubes
we can do it
(12,190 posts)11. All of these covidiots need to be denied care.
Let them stay home and deal with it, since its a hoax to them.
Mosby
(16,342 posts)13. Check out the calvary ministers
https://calvarynm.church/about/team/
Nothing about education, theology. No women.
It's another Assembies of God (pentecostal) franchise in stealth mode.
Nothing about education, theology. No women.
It's another Assembies of God (pentecostal) franchise in stealth mode.
Arne
(2,069 posts)15. Saw the picture, applied for a job.
Cut me off when I proclaimed my ancestors were Apes.
Greybnk48
(10,172 posts)14. Can't milk the parishioners of money as efficiently
from home. The dirty bastards.
Cicada
(4,533 posts)16. God, commanding no killing, was watching too much CNN
Midnight Writer
(21,790 posts)17. Covid is the new Kool-aid.