'The Good Lord's in control': Hundreds attend N.C. town's Christmas parade despite COVID warning

[underpants]

https://greensboro.com/community/rockingham_now/news/the-good-lords-in-control-hundreds-attend-n-c-christmas-parade-despite-covid-warning/article_6ab5a7dc-37c8-11eb-b409-e7b0a6ca906e.html

YOUNGSVILLE, N.C. — The town's defiant Christmas parade began with whooping police sirens, and state Rep. Lisa Stone Barnes waving to the crowd from the back of a red convertible, wearing gloves but no mask.

A truck bearing a Trump flag blew its horn. Unmasked carolers strolled past, singing "Angels We Have Heard on High," and strumming a guitar. And for 22 minutes, roughly 500 people cheered.

"I'm taking the risk," said Lindsey Newton, a pre-K teacher who lives along the parade route, and who also wore a mask. "It's tradition. If I could go to every person and say 'Put your mask on,' I'd probably get hit in the face. All I can say is the Good Lord's in control."

Mayor Fonzie Flowers waved to the crowd from the float carrying Santa Claus, and "Thank you!" came a cheer from the Burnt Barrel parking lot.

[redstatebluegirl]

1. Does religion make you stupid?

[Wounded Bear]

3. Yes, yes it does...

or at least it can when it demands that people ignore science because it goes against some perceived "holy mandate from on high."

[redstatebluegirl]

4. I've been a recovering Catholic for 40 years so I am out of practice.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. it removes personal responsibility and common sense

[Croney]

15. Do drunk women make Rudy fart?

[Thomas Hurt]

26. Makes you selective, God is in control, but they ignore Christ's admonition against testing God.

They turn into snake handlers when it suits them.

[Wounded Bear]

2. St Louis, 1919. History may not repeat, but it does rhyme...

[Initech]

8. Actually this has the potential to blow up like the infamous Philadelphia victory parade.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/philadelphia-threw-wwi-parade-gave-thousands-onlookers-flu-180970372/

[Wounded Bear]

12. I got my history backwards, I guess...It was Philly that did it wrong and St Louis that did it right

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. And if a whole bunch of those morons get covid19,

does it mean the Good Lord created them stupid?

[Initech]

7. And this is why we can't have nice things right now.

[underpants]

11. Well .....

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14673575

[LastDemocratInSC]

28. I'm surprised Colonel Sanders is involved in such a scandal.

[Baked Potato]

9. You take your chances...

Instant gratification, just what Trump preaches.

[jayfish]

10. I Wonder What "The Good Lord"...

is making of all the medical-care invoices he's getting blown up with.

[Mz Pip]

13. The "Good Lord" made smart people.

Some of these smart people became scientists and experts in infectious diseases.

This kind of religious absolutism is why I’m not much of a believer. It strikes me as ridiculously intellectually lazy.

[Solly Mack]

14. I keep typing a comment and deleting it. Not because I give a fuck about insulting idiots.

But because screaming would be just as effective.

At least screaming grants me some relief.

[Hekate]

23. Good to know I'm not alone. Sometimes I think that DEL button is going to wear out. nt

[Solly Mack]

30. Poor little delete button. :)

Mine does get abused.

[nolabear]

16. My b-I-l is a doctor in NC. Things are going south in a hurry.

It’s going to get very, very bad. They have a nursing shortage and can’t get traveling nurses who go where there is high demand because there’s high demand in so many places.

[lindysalsagal]

17. "the good lord" has already murdered 1.5 million of "his children" he loves so much

and given the virus to at least 66mil (confirmed) others.

Not sure I'd be betting on the guy at this point......

[Windy City Charlie]

18. When you get sick

Well, when you get sick, be sure to go to your church and not the hospital or your doctor.

[msongs]

19. same good lord that sent a plague to kill hordes of his believers? nt

[TomDaisy]

20. Darwin take the wheel

[atreides1]

21. 'The Good Lord'

Is a kid with an ant farm, and a magnifying glass, on a summer day...

[LastDemocratInSC]

29. I never taught my grandsons the magic things a magnifying glass can do.

And to my knowledge they're not aware of those things. Yes, I sinned a lot in my early years.

[Vinca]

22. The "Good Lord" could be getting a whole lot of new visitors soon.

[dhill926]

24. no hospital beds, or any other resources...

for you then. Willful stupidity. Go fuck yourselves...

[Botany]

25. Good God in Butter

[usajumpedtheshark]

27. And the Lord looked down on the world, sighed, and said

I should never allowed them to have free will.