Finding the faith/science faultline
Three letters to the editor today respond to a story of a church pastor who defies limited capacity directives meant to slow the pandemic.
The article the letters respond to describes what happened:
“There’s another virus loose in the world, and it’s the virus of deception,” MacArthur told the congregation in his Aug. 30 sermon. “And the one who’s behind the virus of deception is the arch deceiver Satan himself.”
Throughout the summer, MacArthur repeatedly insisted no one from the church had contracted the coronavirus or been hospitalized with COVID-19. Yet congregants have indeed been stricken and hospitalized with COVID-19, according to MacArthur’s own account in a church interview in April. They included a young couple who were hospitalized and a visiting pastor who died of the disease shortly after attending a church conference in March.
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Further Reading:
L.A. megachurch pastor mocks pandemic health orders, even as church members fall ill: latimes.com
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