Liberty University Re-opens

[RandomGuy]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/24/coronavirus-liberty-university-reopens-for-business/



... and there it is. The dumbest thing you have read all day. Unless cadet Golfy McBonespurs has had another batshit crazy press conference.

[Thread]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/24/coronavirus-liberty-university-reopens-for-business/



... and there it is. The dumbest thing you have read all day. Unless cadet Golfy McBonespurs has had another batshit crazy press conference.

No. He went on FOX instead.

[Spurs Homer]

Nope

trump canceled presser to go on Fox news and lie freely!

[SpursforSix]

Liberty, liberty, liiiberyty...liiiberyty

[ChumpDumper]

Holy shit. They're really doing it.

Trump is going full Jonestown on the US. Falwell's mixing the Flavor-Aid and Fox is handing out the cups.

[Spurs Homer]

Holy shit. They're really doing it.

Trump is going full Jonestown on the US. Falwell's mixing the Flavor-Aid and Fox is handing out the cups.


you guys thought i wasnt serious when i asked cultists if they would obey trump and drink the poison?


i say drink up trumptards and only then can we....



MAGA!!!

[Splits]

This will not end well.

[Splits]

Trump will tweet about this 10 minutes after it is reported on Fox

[CosmicCowboy]

https://media.swncdn.com/cms/CW/52277-strengthenfaith_1.1200w.tn.jpg

[slick'81]

People are soo fckn dmb

[monosylab1k]

More Trumptards dying is fine with me tbh

[Thread]

Liberty, liberty, liiiberyty...liiiberyty

Them fuckin' commercials!

[Thread]

This will not end well.

Bend over. I'll show ya somethin' that won't end fuckin' well.

[Thread]

Nope

trump canceled presser to go on Fox news and lie freely!

& CNN is absolutely livid. See, CNN finally figured how to (get to Trump, get his goat)...questions others on the dais instead of the old man and query things that'll aggravate Trump. That's why he didn't bring out Fauci on Sunday & Monday. He beat CNN/MSM at their own game.

the old man

[monosylab1k]

Trump literally tried to gaslight the coronavirus into slowing down, but of course that didn’t work, so he just gaslit other organisms with the same amount of brain cells as coronavirus.

[Will Hunting]

More Trumptards dying is fine with me tbh
Same. This is just some good old fashioned Darwinism at work.

[spurraider21]

More Trumptards dying is fine with me tbh


Same. This is just some good old fashioned Darwinism at work.
it's not a fuckin boarding school. these people go home, markets, etc. they will spread it beyond their immediate bubble

the longer this thing continues to circulate and infect more people, the more time the rest of the state is going to remain shut down. that fucks over everybody.

[monosylab1k]

it's not a fuckin boarding school. these people go home, markets, etc. they will spread it beyond their immediate bubble

the longer this thing continues to circulate and infect more people, the more time the rest of the state is going to remain shut down. that fucks over everybody.
You wanna go lecture the chicken for not looking both ways before crossing the road next?

[Will Hunting]

it's not a fuckin boarding school. these people go home, markets, etc. they will spread it beyond their immediate bubble

the longer this thing continues to circulate and infect more people, the more time the rest of the state is going to remain shut down. that fucks over everybody.
I hope they go home plenty tbh. Chances are student going to Liberty University has bbile thumping retards for parents.

[monosylab1k]

I hope they go home plenty tbh. Chances are student going to Liberty University has bbile thumping retards for parents.

You might need another stern explanation of how viruses work tbh.

[Will Hunting]

You might need another stern explanation of how viruses work tbh.
I don’t really blame him...if I lived in Virginia I’d be pretty pissed about this too.

[Blake]

You might need another stern explanation of how viruses work tbh.

Because Jesus

[spurraider21]

You wanna go lecture the chicken for not looking both ways before crossing the road next?
hey man, i can only go off what your comments imply. that you dont care if the virus kills some trumptards. even if we were to look past cheering that on, the implication is that they would be the only persons affected by it or dying from it.

[spurraider21]

I hope they go home plenty tbh. Chances are student going to Liberty University has bbile thumping retards for parents.
yeah they go home and only home. college students love spending time with their parents above all else!

[Spurs Homer]

& CNN is absolutely livid. See, CNN finally figured how to (get to Trump, get his goat)...questions others on the dais instead of the old man and query things that'll aggravate Trump. That's why he didn't bring out Fauci on Sunday & Monday. He beat CNN/MSM at their own game.

the old man

CNN wont lose any sleep about trump falling back into the trap of politicizing the crisis and Fox news will just get sucked into looking even more stupid than they did the first two months of the BUNGLING


boiled down- trump gained zero

let him migrate to fox news and kill all his supporters

the rest of us will stay home and wait til the cult slowly die off

[ChumpDumper]

Lynchburg has less than 400 hospital beds IIRC.

[Thread]

CNN wont lose any sleep about trump falling back into the trap of politicizing the crisis and Fox news will just get sucked into looking even more stupid than they did the first two months of the BUNGLING


boiled down- trump gained zero

let him migrate to fox news and kill all his supporters

the rest of us will stay home and wait til the cult slowly die off

It's on once again! Dr. Fauci is going to be there. Should be the highlight of this evening!

[Will Hunting]

college students love spending time with their parents above all else!
College students attending Jerry Falwell Jr.’s school probably do :lol

[spurraider21]

College students attending Jerry Falwell Jr.’s school probably do :lol
:lol touche

[Spurminator]

Surely the VA governor will overrule this.

[Blake]

Them fuckin' commercials!

Call J.G. Wentworth to complain about it. I have his number if you need it

[Will Hunting]

Call J.G. Wentworth to complain about it. I have his number if you need it
It’s my money, AND I NEED IT NOW!

[Spurminator]

If they're going to open anyway, I hope Billy Graham Jr. holds a big rally and shakes every student's hand. Maybe he can invite Dan Patrick.

[Thread]

It's on once again! Dr. Fauci is going to be there. Should be the highlight of this evening!

It was a big dud. The old man had a tight reign on Fugi.

"Fine, I'll take you out there, but, you take nary question & when I say that's it, you get to fart cactchin'. Savvy?"

[Spurtacular]

Good to see an institution valuing people's time and resources; hooray for Liberty!!!

[Spurtacular]

Surely the VA governor will overrule this.

:cry Surely, Der Virginian Fuhrer will not allow this! :cry

:lmao Sadbert :lmao

[Reck]

:cry Surely, Der Virginian Fuhrer will not allow this! :cry

:lmao Sadbert :lmao

You've been batting .000 lately. Take a time out.

[Spurtacular]

You've been batting .000 lately. Take a time out.

Get help with your SDS, tranny.

[Reck]

Get help with your SDS, tranny.

Whats what?

[Spurtacular]

Whats what?

Spurtacular Derangement Syndrome.

[RandomGuy]

Nope

trump canceled presser to go on Fox news and lie freely!

Watched the whole thing. Trump, once again, sounded out of his depth. Another rambling episode of rudderlessness.

[hater]

if he dies he dies

[Spurtacular]

Watched the whole thing. Trump, once again, sounded out of his depth. Another rambling episode of rudderlessness.

:lol Says the Biden supporter.

[RandomGuy]

Holy shit. They're really doing it.

Trump is going full Jonestown on the US. Falwell's mixing the Flavor-Aid and Fox is handing out the cups.

The snake is eating its tail. The right wing echo chamber is driving public policy and this is the result. You can track Dear Leader's tweets back to Fox News talking head rants, he picks it up, and the propaganda machine amplifies it. We get to watch it in real time.

At least here, these kids are going to infect older Republicans likely to vote. Problem sort itself out, donnit?

77000 votes, or less than one percent of the electorate in 3 states. Kill a bunch of likely Trump voters off, and you have simply tilted the results in favor of Democrats. This is, so far, killing about 1%-2% of diagnosed cases, and mostly male. Older males are way more likely to vote Republican, and Republicans are not taking as many precautions. It will spread more widely among such people. Conservative stupidity will be fatal.

Cold calculation. At this point, I am having a very hard time summoning empathy.

[RandomGuy]

:lol Says the Biden supporter.

Biden=Trump at that level.

What Biden will do though, is have a vastly more competent staff, packed with more experienced Obama administration people who already know the job. Biden will also almost certainly not make it to a second term, meaning his VP pick will also likely take up the torch.

I will happily support Biden over Trump. Ginsberg will get to retire, and with the Senate quite possibly changing hands, that replacement will be one that will counterbalance the conservative shit-show.

[Spurtacular]

Biden=Trump at that level.

Bruh

[RandomGuy]

Bruh

https://images.indianexpress.com/2017/11/trump-water-bottle-meme5.jpg?w=610

[Thread]

Biden=Trump at that level.

What Biden will do though, is have a vastly more competent staff, packed with more experienced Obama administration people who already know the job. Biden will also almost certainly not make it to a second term, meaning his VP pick will also likely take up the torch.

I will happily support Biden over Trump. Ginsberg will get to retire, and with the Senate quite possibly changing hands, that replacement will be one that will counterbalance the conservative shit-show.

Yep, that encapsulates my living nightmare. The whole fuckin' thing.

Figures RG would hit it solid like this.

[Spurs Homer]

Yep, that encapsulates my living nightmare. The whole fuckin' thing.

Figures RG would hit it solid like this.

but the bestest part of that ....is...

that this trump cult - will be the main reason for that outcome.

poetic justice.

[phxspurfan]

wtf is Liberty University...

[Blake]

wtf is Liberty University...

Pretty sure they teach about Noah's ark in advanced biology classes

[Spurtacular]

https://images.indianexpress.com/2017/11/trump-water-bottle-meme5.jpg?w=610

A photoshopped pic vs. reality.

Bruh.

[RandomGuy]

A photoshopped pic vs. reality.

Bruh.

What is sad is the reality is much, much worse.

https://media.giphy.com/media/UsYpKp9s2gTy8/giphy.gif

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETksk6UWoAAskK0.jpg

[RandomGuy]

wtf is Liberty University...

Liberty "university" is an Christian university run by Jerry Falwells family, used to fleece and indoctrinate gullible people and their equally gullible kids.

[Thread]

Liberty "university" is an Christian university run by Jerry Falwells family, used to fleece and indoctrinate gullible people and their equally gullible kids.

...akin to Obama's race baiting 8 year reign.

[Spurtacular]

Pretty sure they teach about Noah's ark in advanced biology classes

Does your church group know you hate Jesus, blake?

[Blake]

does Hur dur Jesus Hur dur?

[Splits]

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TheGreatYacht

[RandomGuy]

Does your church group know you hate Jesus, blake?

Nearly 3 dozen who attended church event test positive for coronavirus

Nearly three dozen people who attended a recent children's event at a church in Arkansas have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to church officials.

Donald Shipp, a deacon at First Assembly of God church in Greers Ferry, about 75 miles north of Little Rock, told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that 34 people who attended the event in early March at the Cleburne County church had tested positive for the coronavirus, and that an unknown number of others were awaiting test results.

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Trying really really hard to muster some empathy for them.

[ChumpDumper]

Nearly 3 dozen who attended church event test positive for coronavirus

Nearly three dozen people who attended a recent children's event at a church in Arkansas have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to church officials.

Donald Shipp, a deacon at First Assembly of God church in Greers Ferry, about 75 miles north of Little Rock, told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that 34 people who attended the event in early March at the Cleburne County church had tested positive for the coronavirus, and that an unknown number of others were awaiting test results.

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Trying really really hard to muster some empathy for them.God's will....

[Spurtacular]

Does your church group know you hate Jesus, blake?

Don't retreat into you cuckoon, blake. Answer the question.

[Spurtacular]

Nearly 3 dozen who attended church event test positive for coronavirus

Nearly three dozen people who attended a recent children's event at a church in Arkansas have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to church officials.

Donald Shipp, a deacon at First Assembly of God church in Greers Ferry, about 75 miles north of Little Rock, told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that 34 people who attended the event in early March at the Cleburne County church had tested positive for the coronavirus, and that an unknown number of others were awaiting test results.

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Trying really really hard to muster some empathy for them.

Are the media going to report it when none under 50 die from it?

[Blake]

:madrun hur dur, blake. HUR dUr! :madrun

[RandomGuy]

Are the media going to report it when none under 50 die from it?

#TrumpDeathCult #bigbadmeidamyth

[RandomGuy]

Pastor Who Claimed Covid-19 ‘Hysteria’ Was Plot Against Trump Dies From Virus


According to reports, Spradlin, a 66-year-old Christian “musical evangelist,” fell ill while on a missionary trip to New Orleans with his wife.

Friendly Atheist reports Spaldrin went to New Orleans to “wash it from its Sin and debauchery.”

On his Facebook page Spradlin shared a misleading meme attempting to minimize COVID-19, comparing the virus to the swine flu, and suggesting that the response to the coronavirus pandemic was media created “mass hysteria” to damage Trump:


As long as I walk in the light of that law [of the Spirit of life], no germ will attach itself to me.

Really don't have any empathy for him.

[Spurtacular]

Pastor Who Claimed Covid-19 ‘Hysteria’ Was Plot Against Trump Dies From Virus

Really don't have any empathy for him.

Cos he's not on your team.

[RandomGuy]

Cos he's not on your team.

Not really a case of being on a team. More of a case of a conspiracy theorist like yourself trying to deny reality.

Reality doesn't care about your fee-fees or your faith in a magic man in the sky.

[Spurtacular]

Not really a case of being on a team. More of a case of a conspiracy theorist like yourself trying to deny reality.

Reality doesn't care about your fee-fees or your faith in a magic man in the sky.

All lashing out aside, what reality are you asserting that I'm denying?

[TheGreatYacht]

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I love TruNews. Rick Wiles content is great if you're willing to weed out all the religous jumbo stuff. Too bad JoooTube took down his channel tbh.

[boutons_deux]

Rick Wiles, yet another Texas shitbag grifter pastor, spewing hate and ignorance, and making $Ms

[pgardn]

I love TruNews. Rick Wiles content is great if you're willing to weed out all the religous jumbo stuff. Too bad JoooTube took down his channel tbh.

Love to hear his comments on Muslims, eh?

”He’s ok with me as long as he sticks with hating chews”

[RandomGuy]

All lashing out aside, what reality are you asserting that I'm denying?

The reality that you can't read, apparently.

[pgardn]

All lashing out aside, what reality are you asserting that I'm denying?

You say this after starting a thread by posting an article, and then go haywire asserting you did not post an article when questioned on it.
How are posters supposed to answer any of your questions...

[Spurtacular]

The reality that you can't read, apparently.

Nice non-answer answer.

[RandomGuy]

Nice non-answer answer.

I said X.

You said "saying Y is dumb".

Don't need to answer for Y, dummy.

[Spurtacular]

I said X.

You said "saying Y is dumb".

Don't need to answer for Y, dummy.

I asked you to clarify your position. You ran like a little bitch. It's what you do.

[RandomGuy]

I asked you to clarify your position. You ran like a little bitch. It's what you do.

My assertion was that the pastor was denying reality in this case, not you. I merely called you a conspiracy theorist.
I don't keep track of your beliefs, nor is it my job to do so. I seem to remember you trying to argue 9-11 twoof, and giving up.

[Spurtacular]

My assertion was that the pastor was denying reality in this case, not you. I merely called you a conspiracy theorist.
I don't keep track of your beliefs, nor is it my job to do so. I seem to remember you trying to argue 9-11 twoof, and giving up.

Yea, you sperm shield on the 911 stuff, too. No empathy for the victims as you say. You're a good lil Nazi.

[RandomGuy]

Yea, you sperm shield on the 911 stuff, too. No empathy for the victims as you say. You're a good lil Nazi.

As I said, not my job to keep track of your delusions. If memory serves you are too chickenshit to spell things out or defend them.

What do you think happened on 9-11?

[ChumpDumper]

As I said, not my job to keep track of your delusions. If memory serves you are too chickenshit to spell things out or defend them.

What do you think happened on 9-11?:lol

[Spurtacular]

As I said, not my job to keep track of your delusions. If memory serves you are too chickenshit to spell things out or defend them.

What do you think happened on 9-11?

When I get around to it, I'll make a 911 thread for ya. I'm not going off on tangents that's gonna take five pages.

[ElNono]

As I said, not my job to keep track of your delusions. If memory serves you are too chickenshit to spell things out or defend them.

What do you think happened on 9-11?

lol

[DMC]

As I said, not my job to keep track of your delusions. If memory serves you are too chickenshit to spell things out or defend them.

What do you think happened on 9-11?

Some people did some things

[RandomGuy]

As I said, not my job to keep track of your delusions. If memory serves you are too chickenshit to spell things out or defend them.

What do you think happened on 9-11?



When I get around to it, I'll make a 911 thread for ya. I'm not going off on tangents that's gonna take five pages.

:rollin

Instafold noted.

[Splits]

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[ElNono]

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thoughts and prayers

[RandomGuy]

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Mr. Falwell and his administration have worked to tamp down dissent. After a Liberty undergraduate, Calum Best, wrote on his personal Facebook page that students should receive refunds, he said Liberty’s spokesman, Scott Lamb, called his cellphone to berate him. Asked about the call, Mr. Lamb said he was simply objecting to an error in the post, and Mr. Best was “spinning.”

After Marybeth Davis Baggett, a professor, wrote an open letter asking the university’s board of trustees to close the campus, Mr. Falwell mocked her on Twitter as “the ‘Baggett’ lady.”

Jeff Brittain, a Liberty parent, wrote on Twitter: “I’m as right wing as they get, bud. But as a parent of three of your students, I think this is crazy, irresponsible and seems like a money grab.” Mr. Falwell replied, calling him a “dummy.”

All of this has left even his critics scratching their heads.

“It’s honestly hard to figure out what his motives are,” Mr. Best, the student who wrote the Facebook post, said in an interview. “If he had purely political motives, he’s being way more conservative than even Trump is being right now. Trump is at least allowing doctors to say their piece. Jerry is not. It kind of shocks me at this point.”



“It’s just strange to me how many are overreacting” to the pandemic, Mr. Falwell said on “Fox & Friends” on March 10. “It makes you wonder if there is a political reason for that. Impeachment didn’t work and the Mueller report didn’t work and Article 25 didn’t work, and so maybe now this is their next attempt to get Trump.”


Herp dee derp. Jesus won't protect you from getting sick, because... he doesn't exist.

[Blake]

^ why do so many Christians like Falwell turn to mocking others for dissenting?

[Spurtacular]

:lol NYT on it
:lol Symptoms

[boutons_deux]

^ why do so many Christians like Falwell turn to mocking others for dissenting?

Just like politicians, a lot of pastors abuse the Bible and their sheeple to amass power and wealth, and oppose anybody who doesn't like it.

[Spurtacular]

Pretty sure they teach about Noah's ark in advanced biology classes


Because Jesus


^ why do so many Christians like Falwell turn to mocking others for dissenting?

Does your Christian church group know you hate Jesus?

[Blake]

Does hur know you dur?

[Spurtacular]

You always go into your cuckoon on this, blake.

You come here and trash talk Jesus all day and then go to church. Explain the disconnect.

[Blake]

You always go into your cuckoon on this, blake.

You come here and trash talk Jesus all day and then go to church. Explain the disconnect.

Moron, I don't go to church.

Now retreat back to your hur durs. Go.

[Spurtacular]

Moron, I don't go to church.

Now retreat back to your hur durs. Go.

You already admitted that you go to church at least at times.

[pgardn]

:lol NYT on it
:lol Symptoms

What should a copy paste have on it for you to believe it?
What publication?

[Spurtacular]

What should a copy paste have on it for you to believe it?
What publication?

Facts from a publication not in bed with governments and corporations is always nice. I know you run with much less though.

[pgardn]

Facts from a publication not in bed with governments and corporations is always nice. I know you run with much less though.

So list them.

[DMX7]

When I get around to it, I'll make a 911 thread for ya. I'm not going off on tangents that's gonna take five pages.

Going off on tangents is all you do on this forum... it’s not like you’re lacking for time given you hardly do anything else but post here.

[Spurtacular]

Going off on tangents is all you do on this forum... it’s not like you’re lacking for time given you hardly do anything else but post here.

See. Stick to your ankle biting; it's your bread and butter. You get in trouble when you try to do hot takes.

[DMX7]

Does your Christian church group know you hate Jesus?

Do you really not know Blake and many others here are atheist/agnostic? After all the time you spend on this board and that’s still not clear to you?

[DMX7]

#JesusSaves

[Spurtacular]

Do you really not know Blake and many others here are atheist/agnostic? After all the time you spend on this board and that’s still not clear to you?

That doesn't stop him from going to church.

[Blake]

That doesn't stop him from going to church.

You're the dumbest poster on this board, imo. And ducks posts here.

[Spurtacular]

You're the dumbest poster on this board, imo. And ducks posts here.


I go to church and take my kid every now and then

:lmao Tantrum for calling you out.

[Blake]

:lmao Tantrum for calling you out.

dishonest derp editing my post.

From 9 years ago.

You must need a victory over me in a really bad way to cheat like that.

[Spurtacular]

dishonest derp editing my post.

From 9 years ago.

You must need a victory over me in a really bad way to cheat like that.

You implied that you have been to church much more recently in a post (I went with the explicit admission).

So, my question remains, does your church group know that you hate Jesus?

[DMX7]

Why the fuck is he bumping 9 year old threads? Is he actively looking for shit from almost a decade ago? Get a life.

[pgardn]

Why the fuck is he bumping 9 year old threads?

Grudge posting.

Go to sleep Spurter.

[Spurtacular]

Why the fuck is he bumping 9 year old threads? Is he actively looking for shit from almost a decade ago? Get a life.

Accidental bump. Hence why I erased the post. My question is why the fuck do you care so much about something so trivial?

Oh yea, the ankle biting thing. :lol

[ChumpDumper]

Why the fuck is he bumping 9 year old threads? Is he actively looking for shit from almost a decade ago? Get a life.Apparently derp knows Blake goes to church in 2020 because Blake told derp he does so four years before derp joined SpursTalk.

[Spurtacular]

dishonest derp editing my post.

From 9 years ago.

You must need a victory over me in a really bad way to cheat like that.

It's not dishonest if I'm not materially changing the crux of the matter. You really want an easy out.


I go to church and take my kid every now and then just to pacify my own mom.

[Spurtacular]

Apparently derp knows Blake goes to church in 2020 because Blake told derp he does so four years before derp joined SpursTalk.


You [Blake] implied that you have been to church much more recently in a post

You save your man yet?

[ChumpDumper]

Is he actively looking for shit from almost a decade ago?Since he keeps posting it, yes.

[DMX7]

Apparently derp knows Blake goes to church in 2020 because Blake told derp he does so four years before derp joined SpursTalk.

He says he accidentally bumped it. My question is how did he even come across it?

[ChumpDumper]

He says he accidentally bumped it. My question is how did he even come across it?Thorough searching.

[Spurtacular]

He says he accidentally bumped it. My question is how did he even come across it?

Blake said he doesn't go to church and I showed him otherwise.

:lol Chumpettes really hate it when on of their kind have their words come back against them.

[Spurtacular]

Thorough searching.

Thorough as in about three or four minutes, maybe. :lol

[pgardn]

Blake said he doesn't go to church and I showed him otherwise.

:lol Chumpettes really hate it when on of their kind have their words come back against them.

You can really say this and not gag on your own vomit.
You are amazing in your ability to lie and contradict and feel no shame.

[Blake]

Accidental bump.

:lol wut? Was the edit accidental too?

[Spurtacular]

:lol wut? Was the edit accidental too?

Why would it be accidental? I edited to say nothing for a reason.

:lol That you had to run away from the crux of the matter and come back an hour later with this meandering.

[Spurtacular]

I go to church and take my kid every now and then just to pacify my own mom.

Did you tell your fellow Christians that you hate Jesus?

[clambake]

You can really say this and not gag on your own vomit.
You are amazing in your ability to lie and contradict and feel no shame.

he does it because his life is filled by the rejection

from women

[RandomGuy]

Iran plans tougher restrictions as coronavirus toll rises

Iran last week warned of a surge of cases as many Iranians ignored calls to avoid traveling for Persian New Year holidays that started on March 20.

-- and there you go. Dumbness not limited to christian idiots.

At least the aging septuagenarians running things over there will be vastly more impacted than the young people they are oppressing.

[RandomGuy]

#JesusSaves

Tampa Megachurch Pastor Has Virus Death-Ray, Keeps Holding Packed Services
All across the country, people are doing their best to practice social distancing, staying in as much as possible and panicking every time they feel slightly not-great — because we'd all like to get through this COVID-19 thing with as few deaths as possible.

But you know who's not doing that? The congregants of the River Church in Tampa, Florida, an evangelical megachurch lead by Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne. For weeks, Howard-Browne has been refusing to stop services, and has not only encouraged his flock to come to church, but to shake hands while there. Howard-Browne has said they won't close until the rapture comes and they are all vacuumed up into heaven. Because, and I quote, they are "raising up revivalists, not pansies."

And this Sunday, that church was filled to the brim with a bunch of geniuses who think that they can pray the coronavirus away.

Now, this may look very dangerous to you and me, but Howard-Browne is also claiming that his church is totally sterile because they have 13 machines that can shoot down all of the viruses.

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"The Lord has helped us to secure our congregation. We brought in 13 machines that basically kill every virus in the place, and uh, if somebody walks through the door it's like, it kills everything on them. If they sneeze, it shoots it down at like 100 mph. It'll neutralize it in split seconds. We have the most sterile building in, I don't know, all of America."

Yeah, that's not a thing that exists! There are not machines that shoot down viruses when someone sneezes. But if they did exist, it sure seems like hoarding all 13 of them to oneself might be a sin of some kind. Or, at the very least, an extremely shitty thing to do.

Howard-Browne also claims that he successfully prayed the Zika virus away, and plans to do the same with COVID-19.

Now, it would be easy to blame Howard-Browne for this, but it's not all him. These people, after all, do have free will. They don't have to go. They don't have to believe him about his magic virus-killing machines, they don't have to believe that he has any magic virus-killing powers of his own. They can just ignore him and stay at home. It's not like they're the Jonestown people being forced at gunpoint.

It would be one thing if the only people they were endangering were themselves. In that case, as long as they were all consenting adults, that would be their business. But they're endangering other people, because if someone in that church has COVID-19 — which is very likely the case — and they all get it because one of those 13 machines fails to shoot the virus down in time, they're gonna go out and infect other people. And judging by the fact that they're doing this in the first place, they're probably not taking too many other safety precautions either. So they're gonna kill someone, or a lot of someones, probably.

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eyup.

[RandomGuy]

Spirit Of Lord Moving Through Liberty University, Just Kidding It's Coronavirus


As of Friday, Dr. Eppes said, nearly a dozen Liberty students were sick with symptoms that suggested Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. Three were referred to local hospital centers for testing. An additional eight were told to self-isolate.

As of 8 p.m. on March 29, of those three students tested, one was positive, one was negative and one student's results are still pending, according to Dr. Eppes, who added that the student who tested positive for Covid-19 lives off campus.


As of Friday, Dr. Eppes said, nearly a dozen Liberty students were sick with symptoms that suggested Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. Three were referred to local hospital centers for testing. An additional eight were told to self-isolate.

"As of 8 p.m. on March 29, of those three students tested, one was positive, one was negative and one student's results are still pending, according to Dr. Eppes, who added that the student who tested positive for Covid-19 lives off campus.

Brandon Ambrosino, a journalist who knows Liberty very well, reports at Politico that, according to people who know Falwell, this is just "classic Jerry," which we guess is Liberty-University-ese for "what a stupid-ass dumb goddamned motherfucker":"

https://www.wonkette.com/spirit-of-lord-moving-through-liberty-university-just-kidding-its-coronavirus

[ElNono]

^^^

'It's false'; Liberty University asks New York Times to correct coronavirus story

https://wset.com/news/coronavirus/its-false-liberty-university-asks-new-york-times-to-correct-coronavirus-story

[Blake]

Why would it be accidental? I edited to say nothing for a reason.


How can you accidentally bump my post but edit my post before you bump it?

[Blake]

It's not dishonest if I'm not materially changing the crux of the matter. You really want an easy out.

Dishonest derp trying to spin his dishonesty. So desperate for a message board victory.

[RandomGuy]

Dishonest derp trying to spin his dishonesty. So desperate for a message board victory.

It is the dumb.

[Spurtacular]

How can you accidentally bump my post but edit my post before you bump it?

Not that it matters if it was bumped or not; but I already explained that it was an accident. I thought I was responding to a more recent post. It happens when multiple tabs are open.

But this is all a lame distraction because you don't want to account for whether your fellow parishioners know that you badmouth Jesus.

[Spurtacular]

Dishonest derp trying to spin his dishonesty. So desperate for a message board victory.

:lol You're so lame. Go ahead and explain how it's dishonest. You can't. You're just doing your psychopath mentor's play.

[Blake]

:lol You're so lame. Go ahead and explain how it's dishonest. You can't. You're just doing your psychopath mentor's play.

You're just babbling, trying to pick a fight with my ankles. Back to the hur dur with you.

[Spurtacular]

You're just babbling, trying to pick a fight with my ankles. Back to the hur dur with you.

You can't just pretend it away with buzz words. I'm coming right at you on an issue that is very central to your created threads.

Why are you so afraid to answer whether or not your fellow parishioners know that you badmouth Jesus? You really this much of a coward?

[ChumpDumper]

:lol derp's obsession

[Blake]

hur dur

Hur dur Jesus? Hur dur?