Pete Buttigieg To Reluctant Evangelicals: 'Maybe A Vaccine Is Part Of God's Plan'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Huffington Post

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday encouraged evangelical Christians who are reluctant to get vaccinated against COVID-19 to consider that the shots might be a “part of God’s plan.”

“State of the Union” host Jake Tapper asked Buttigieg, an Episcopalian, about the large portion of white evangelicals who say they won’t get a COVID-19 vaccine. About 40% of white evangelical Protestants said they likely would not get vaccinated, according to a poll conducted last month, compared to about 25% of all Americans, 28% of white mainline Protestants and 27% of Protestants who are not white.

“I’ve heard people I care about saying, you know, ‘If I’m faithful, God’s going to take care of me,’” Buttigieg said. “And I guess what I would hope that they might consider is that maybe a vaccine is part of God’s plan for how you’re going to take care of yourself.”

Buttigieg acknowledged during the exchange on CNN that his opinion on the matter may not sway many white evangelicals, and he urged faith leaders to speak out in support of vaccines.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/pete-buttigieg-evangelicals-covid-19-vaccine-150017346.html

[wryter2000]

1. Reminds me of the joke

A man sitting on his roof as the flood waters rise. A boat comes by and the people tell him to get in. He answers, "God will take care of me." After a bit, a helicopter hovers overhead and lowers a basket to him. The pilot uses the PA system to tell the man to get in the basket. He answers, "God will take care of me."

The flood waters continue to rise, and eventually, the man drowns. When he gets to the Pearly Gates he tells St. Peter, "I thought God would take care of me." St. Peter answers, "Didn't you see the boat? Didn't you see the helicopter?"

Signed, another Episcopalian.

[3catwoman3]

3. My first thought.

I’m too slow a typist so I’m glad you put this up. I’d still be hunting and pecking.

[CurtEastPoint]

5. I JUST thought of that when I saw the headline!

[elleng]

7. THANKS!

'I sent the boat . .' WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR???

[Justice matters.]

12. Can't fix 'stupidity' nt

[niyad]

39. Have always liked that one.

[forgotmylogin]

46. Similar joke:

A man prays and prays for years for God to let him win the lottery.

Finally a thunderous voice with trumpets fills the air when the man is praying before bed, "Ralph. This is God. Either meet me halfway and buy a lottery ticket or stop asking."

[wryter2000]

49. LOL

Good one!

[3catwoman3]

2. For those who believe in a divine plan, wouldn't it also be part...

....of that plan that Joe Biden was elected -

[wryter2000]

6. You're going to hell for that

[3catwoman3]

8. And probably for this too - Trump occupying the White...

...House is proof that there is no gawd.

[VarryOn]

21. Actually, Roman's 13 addresses this:

"Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God."

I've used that verse many a time with Republican friends. Of course, I've had it fired back at every a few times, too, lol

[Rhiannon12866]

33. Good point. Joe Biden is a Christian who attends church religiously

Trump gasses people who are at church, including priests.

[Lonestarblue]

45. Yes! White evangelicals bleated incessantly that God put Trump in the White House.

If everything happens according to God’s will, then why do evangelicals try to impose their will on everything that happens, as in believing that Biden did not win the election?

That is so much the hypocrisy that I see in Republicans and their white evangelical supporters. It’s God’s will when they agree with the results. It’s cheating by progressives and liberals when they do not.

[Betty88]

47. God put trump in the Whitehouse

To teach us a lesson

[FakeNoose]

4. Mayor Pete knows those religious fundies pretty well

He grew up and lived in South Bend Indiana, where lots of religious groups are all around there. Even a lot of Amish living in that state. So he knows how to talk to them.

[Sibelius Fan]

9. Just another example of the "meaning" of the BuyBull being open

to whatever interpretation advances one’s agenda.

[Elessar Zappa]

11. If it'll convince someone to get vaccinated

then I have no problem with it.

[Sibelius Fan]

16. Just like Rs allow make believe to convince them of things.

So sad that the science alone - which is, after all, reality - is not enough of a bludgeon to use when it comes to people getting vaccinated.

[COL Mustard]

24. I May Be Harsh, Especially Since I Have Family Members Who Refuse To Get Vaccinated, Or To Mask....

Or to socially distance, but if someone is too stubborn, stupid, ignorant, defiant, or whatever other adjective you want to use, I say screw 'em. I'm not sure I want them getting vaccinated. Let them improve the gene pool by leaving it.




(All those are at them, not at you! )

[patphil]

10. What these people are saying is that the faithful will not get sick from the Covid virus.

All they have to do is truly believe that God will protect them, and they will be protected.
That's basically demanding that God intervene in a strictly biological process that has been around for millennia; the whole infectious disease thing which has killed many hundreds of millions of people for as far back as there are human records to record these things.
So, they test God. Good luck with that.
There is a phrase: "God helps those who help themselves".
You wouldn't walk out naked into a howling blizzard, expecting God to protect you from the cold, would you?
Why would you walk out unprotected (naked) into a pandemic and expect God to protect you?
It's pretty arrogant.
It also isn't going to work. Evangelicals get sick and die just like everyone else. It may be God's way of testing you; giving you what you need to see how spiritually mature you really are. Irrational belief in being so special that God will intervene just for you is a spiritually immature attitude. Pure and simple bull crap!

[DBoon]

17. Piety did not protect against the Black Death

and it won't protect against Covid either

[COL Mustard]

25. If They Die, Then Clearly Their Faith Wasn't Strong Enough

You just can't fix stupid.

[patphil]

27. At least death removes it from the playing field.

Unfortunately, stupid is very resilient, and has a very deep bench of replacement stupid.

[dickthegrouch]

13. Secretary Pete is such a Mensch

But I'd have answered along the lines of "Go ahead, ignore the vaccine. You're deplorable enough to meet your maker (satan) early"
Yes it might cause a scandal, but they deserve to be kicked from here to Sunday into doing the right thing, which is protect the rest of us from their stupidity.

[Mary in S. Carolina]

14. Boycott the Catholic Church ....NOW!!!

I have 7 cousins named Mary and 6 Supreme Court Justices that are Catholic!!!! It is time to boycott the Catholic Church!!! Excommunicate Roberts, Coney Barrett, Alito, Kavanaugh and Scalia!!

[Ocelot II]

20. The Catholics aren't the problem wrt the vaccine; it's the Protestant evangelicals.

The Pope told them to get vaccinated. The Catholic church has plenty of other problems, to be sure, but they aren't pushing the antivax thing like the evilgelicals.

[Mary in S. Carolina]

22. You are soooo wrong!!!!

No one and I mean "no one" has more power than the Catholics on the Supreme Court. Americans and Mexican must reject the Catholic religion; the Pope must excommunicate all Supreme Court Justices that back republican ideas...now!!

[Ocelot II]

23. How do you figure that's going to happen?

And don't we have a First Amendment that allows people to practice whatever religion they choose?

[Mary in S. Carolina]

31. We have a 1st amendment right too!!

We have our 1st Amendment rights too ....I have a right to boycott the Catholic religion!!! Why are you sticking up for a religion that allows for Mexican children being ripped from their parents arms, or a religion that is "ok" with the sexual abuse of children, or a Supreme Court that supports, the "devil"..Trump. Contact the Pope and have the Catholic Supreme Court justices excommunicate. Now!!

[Ocelot II]

41. I'm not sticking up for it. I'm just pointing out that

contacting the Pope and urging him to excommunicate people we don't like just isn't going to happen. You can boycott any church you want. Joe Biden is Catholic, too, btw. Should he be excommunicated as well?

[ShazzieB]

28. It's a little late for Scalia. 😉

He would have been replaced by Merrick Garland, if not for Moscow Mitch. Instead we got Gorsuch.

Also: Sotomayor is Catholic, but she's one of the liberals!

[3catwoman3]

40. I like your IDIC image.

[Polybius]

43. Why'd you leave out Sonia Sotomayor?

She's a Catholic Justice. And Scalia has been dead for 5 years.

[bucolic_frolic]

15. I'm perfectly willing to allow them to test their plan to strengthen the gene pool

so I don't have to.

[Thomas Hurt]

18. Jesus himself would not jump from the temple when the devil tempted him...

saying that was testing God and a no-no.

Not sure why refusing vaccinations and exposing yourself to viruses is different than subjecting yourself to the whims of gravity.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. I really like Sectary Pete

He is a good person to make this argument

[appleannie1]

26. We were given a brain with the expectation that we would use it.

[hay rick]

29. If I thought Donald Trump was part of God's plan I'd wonder about vaccines too.

Clearly, the Big Guy already proved he hates us...

[Thunderbeast]

30. "GOD WILL SAVE ME" is bullshit!

These clowns are all-in on the Trump culture war. HARD STOP!

[MissMillie]

32. I thought the vaccine was supposed to be...

a gift from their tRump-Savior.

[Historic NY]

38. Trump and his wives took theirs.

[rickyhall]

34. Maybe because I was raised Jewish, I think it arrogant for one to think he/she knows G-d's thoughts

Just saying...

[eppur_se_muova]

35. If God doesn't want humans to apply their own ingenuity, I want a different God.

I never did vote for this one in the first place, so he's not my God. That's how it works for Uglicans.

[Historic NY]

36. Darwin had a plan too, which apparently many refusniks ascribe to.

[niyad]

37. As Speaker Pelosi put it, "Science is god's answer to prayer."

[regnaD kciN]

42. Probably Mayor Pete isn't the best messenger to this group...

...since everybody knows he's openly...Episcopalian.

[myohmy2]

44. I don't know...

...I just spoke with my God and asked Him, (it was a Him ), what should they do?

...He said, "Croak"

...

[BlueWavePsych]

48. Get some cognitive dissonance going!

Good idea