Even in churches, some parishioners opt to find another RELIGION,

[no_hypocrisy]

not just another church, where they can attend without masks.

I have heard this secondhand.

A Methodist has left his longtime church to now attend a local Catholic Church solely because the latter won't require attendees, the priests, the altar boys, etc. to wear masks. And his original church is large, spacious with many rows of pews and a sparse congregation. He acknowledges he's not converting, but he feels that he and his family have no choice. (Yes, he is solidly republican.)

[paleotn]

1. That's completely insane

What is wrong with these people?

[3Hotdogs]

2. Since Christianity itself is fraud, It doesn't matter where he goes on Sunday.

I do however, believe in resurrection of the dead..... seen it myself.

Every day at the N.J. state office I worked at, 75 people would awake from the dead at 4:30.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Makes me wonder why these same people obey signs that

they must have shirts and shoes on to enter. Why not throw out all civil norms and run around naked?

[Mariana]

4. Opposition to vaccines and masking has become a religion in itself.

Those beliefs certainly aren't rational or supported by any evidence in the real world. They are strictly based on faith.

FTR, Methodists and Catholics are different flavors of Christianity. They aren't really different religions.

[shrike3]

5. I live in a red state and all churches, including Catholic, require masks.

Every religious leader I've seen interviewed stresses the importance of vaccines. Bizarre.

There ARE differences between Catholic and Methodist churches. Is the town so small he had no other choices? Strange. I'm VERY unhappy when I hear some churches allow attendees to do so without masks.

[Mariana]

6. The Catholic church may be be the only one that doesn't require masks.

Obviously, his anti-mask beliefs are more important to him than any of his beliefs about which denominations practice Christianity correctly.

[shrike3]

8. That's why I was wondering how big this town is, that his choices are so limited.

There's a little town south of us that has more churches than bars.

Some Methodist churches have gay/women ministers. Methodist Church near us had both. Wonder if that would be enough to change his mind? Who knows?

[Mariana]

9. How many of them don't require masks to attend services? nt.

[shrike3]

10. Few, I imagine

Religious leaders from all denominations are urging followers to vaccinate. A few have even held vaccine clinics.

[Mariana]

11. That would seriously limit his choices, then.

He's determined not to wear a mask to services, so he'll only attend where they don't require masks. If he could not find any church that would allow him to go unmasked, he'd most likely give up going to church altogether.

When I say that opposition to vaccination and masking have essentially become religious beliefs for many people, this is what I mean.

[dalton99a]

7. It is hard to find a place to pray

And their houses don't have closets