They are undoubtedly unhinged, but dangerous to all. Stay safe in your bunker at home....this too will pass, and so will Trump!

The girl scouts had the right idea selling cookies outside of a legal marijuana retailer. If only I had invested in a hazmat suit with oxygen tank and several million oxygen masks.

I'm not watching that nonsense... Stupidity is contagious also...

There is an old minister joke about a man sitting on his roof during a flood and praying for Jesus to save him as the water rises. He turns down help from 3 people. one in a rowboat, one in a motor boat and one in a helicopter, because his faith that Jesus would come was so strong. After drowning he finally meets Jesus and asks why he didn't help. Of course any of us can figure out the punch line.( Hey, its a Minister Joke it doesn't have to be funny.)

It might be nice if all who wanted to break stay at home rules could just be sequestered in their houses of worship they prefer over the relative safety of their own homes until either that danger has passed or they all have from the virus being spread withing their groups. It would be the best way to protect the rest of the communities those who want to illegally attend services after they return home but it is also still to draconian for our society to undertake...... yet.....

SMFH

They all can die for all I care, nature culls the chaff.

But didn't you know ? Prayer will keep them all safe !

Large congregations will spread cronovirus quickly, even if they stand 2m apart and wear masks, I think. The airborne virus can travel 3m and masks aren't 100% effective. Moreover, the virus will land on surfaces, such as pews, and people will get it on their hands. Hand to face, and you are probably infected. Furthermore, masks are a scarce commodity. I imagine few in the congregation had one. Some will meet their maker sooner than expected. Hallelujah.

While I do have some compassion in my heart for the delusional sheep that go to get sheared each week, I have no pity for the psychopaths who are doing the shearing. Only a heartless and unfeeling psychopath would be willing to do such things to others, it is inhumane and vile.

I see a lot of wisdom in Max Plank's words: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

I've also seen it put more succinctly, "Science advances one funeral at a time."

I'm just seriously impressed you could sit through any of it

Well put. This is totally predictable in this country and, as you say, they are not about to "change their spots".

Yesterday I watched the news and he is arrested now.

Hence the creation of the Darwin awards.
Unfortunately that streak of Darwinism involves the rest of us in a race to the bottom.
On the plus side, it does appear that some people do understand that this will be bigger that 'the flu'.
In the meantime, stay safe and healthy.

Rock concert is s good term, as those performances serve as entertainment to some folk. The fact that these preachers are doing this would suggest that they, too, are in denial or truly delusional. Some other "faith healers" now won't likely lay a hand on anyone.

Sad that many more will be infected and sad that they won't be able to make the connection because it will take them a couple of weeks to get sick.

Another documentary that was out years ago is Mar Joe, about a tent preacher who went back and attempted to expose the whole racket. He had been exploited and pedaled as a child preacher and grew up understand that this was a way to make lots of money. I believe the film was blocked in certain areas of the South initially.

Over half the cases of the nearly 10,000 cases of COVID-19 in South Korea were from members of a Christian sect that told their followers God would protect them from pestilence. Floowers were expected to attend multiple per week services where they were crowded together. Difficult to say how responsible the sect may have been for infecting other Koreans outside their sect. Another South Korean Pastor chastised Christians for staying home and claimed they should feel patriotic if the contracted the coronavirus. As you say, these people are "way out there".

It's a shame that the people in the fourteenth century believed the shame thing only to end up spreading the black plague instead.

I would be willing to bet Rodney Howard-Browne pulled in a lot of cash that day. Where in my honest opinion was the only reason he did it.

It is disheartening to see such things.
And, yes, in a service like that, they will be caught up in the moment and will confuse their altered state of mind to be the spirit of god.
However... we obviously can't get inside their head. We don't know what may go through their mind in moments of despair Nor do we know what doubts they may have.
We can't know what may crack their armor or, to use another metaphor, we can't know what cracks life has put in the lenses of their god glasses.
There is always hope, at least for some of them......
Many of us have found our way out.

'Mental pollution' kinda thing??

I hope none of them contract the coronavirus but they are certainly not taking necessary precautions.

I wonder how many who are prepared to die really are if they get sick will they be calling for the doctor? did the preacher go among the crowd?