PA Lawmaker's Resolution Says COVID-19 is God's "Punishment" for Our Sins

[yortsed snacilbuper]

What are politicians doing to help people in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak?

Republican State Rep. Stephanie Borowicz of Pennsylvania is doing her part by filing a bill, House Resolution 835, calling on everyone to pray and not eat.

Because that’s how you defeat a virus in crazytown.

This is theocratic wish fulfillment. Just read through the language for “A State Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer.” Borowicz literally says that God sent this pandemic as a “punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins.”

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/03/24/pa-lawmakers-resolution-says-covid-19-is-gods-punishment-for-our-sins/?fbclid=IwAR24WnNd5aHK3tQa5yzMAtbx-Jfc1kQT0jWhyLN8T8bWxdYHVoQy_YhWO9I

[gordianot]

1. Well maybe the Devil is in the details or how you interpret them.

Depending on your point of view it could be God is really pissed.

[elleng]

2. Guess she's done some heckuva sinning.

[stopbush]

3. Fucking asshole Xians.

[vlyons]

5. You got that right

So glad I'm a Buddhist. The church abandoned me long ago. Preaching sin and guilt totally turns me off.

[Cartoonist]

4. Speak for yourself

Maybe God's punishing us for your sins.

[3Hotdogs]

8. Patti Smith: "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine."

[The Magistrate]

13. One Of The Best Lines Anyone Ever Got Off, Sir

[msongs]

6. loving god sends plague to kill his followers...and everyone else. whatta god nt

[safeinOhio]

7. Just saying.....

God was a lot nicer when Obama was President.

[Delmette2.0]

10. You're so right.

Can I steal that?

[safeinOhio]

11. Feel free to

I’m honored.

[mountain grammy]

9. Of course.. like the "gay plague"

that the current head of the CDC pushed in the 80's

Stupidity is alive and well..

[Warpy]

12. Would that be god's punishment for getting to be over 60

or god's punishment for smoking? Seems like there is quite a bit of tobacco being grown in PA these days.

These believers trying to get butts in the pews always say this sort of bullshit about everything. It never fails to amuse me when some church gets flattened by a tornado and the preacher says it's punishment for all them gay boys in San Fransisco. You'd think they'd find a god with better aim if that were the case.

It's a virus. Like HIV 40 years ago, all it wants to do is replicate and spread. We finally got through to people about HIV when it started killing kids and I suppose it will be the same with this one.