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New York Times Blames Evangelical Christians for Coronavirus
Breitbart ^ | 3/27/2020 | joel pollak

Posted on 03/28/2020 11:29:51 PM PDT by bitt

The New York Times published an op-ed Friday that blamed evangelical Christians for the coronavirus pandemic.

The argument, by journalist and author Katherine Stewart, is that because religious voters supported Trump, that means he governs without regard for science.

Stewart also claims that Republicans, more than Democrats, are likely to deny science.

In her op-ed, titled “The Road to Coronavirus Hell Was Paved by Evangelicals,” she writes:

Donald Trump rose to power with the determined assistance of a movement that denies science, bashes government and prioritized loyalty over professional expertise. In the current crisis, we are all reaping what that movement has sown.

At least since the 19th century, when the proslavery theologian Robert Lewis Dabney attacked the physical sciences as “theories of unbelief,” hostility to science has characterized the more extreme forms of religious nationalism in the United States.

She then goes on to provide several quotes from pastors who pushed back against the idea of closing their churches.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ac; again; antichristian; atheismandstate; atheistsupremacist; christians; coronavirus; evangelicals; katherinestewart; leftistbigot; persecution
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To: bitt

Hmmmm.... Who controls New York and California? And even then, who seems to realize living all packed together in cities is a good idea? Most of it is in blue territory.


41 posted on 03/29/2020 2:49:16 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: snarkytart

People of all kinds blow money on booze, drugs, and maybe hookers.


42 posted on 03/29/2020 2:51:36 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: bitt
Katherine Stewart (date of birth unknown) is an American journalist and author, often writing about issues related to the separation of church and state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Stewart_(journalist)

43 posted on 03/29/2020 3:00:09 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: bitt

Or one could argue that athiest Progressives (Communists) from China, much like those at the New York Times, were to blame for the pandemic.


44 posted on 03/29/2020 3:00:24 AM PDT by HarleyD
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To: guitar Josh

militant atheists can’t keep their hatred of Christians in the closet much


45 posted on 03/29/2020 3:02:16 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: a fool in paradise

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Stewart_(journalist)

Quoting:

Katharine Stewart was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She is Jewish.[4]


46 posted on 03/29/2020 3:16:31 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: SaveFerris

Well, there’s a heart full of hatred.

It oozes through every word she writes.


47 posted on 03/29/2020 3:26:55 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: snarkytart
They cities in which THEY run get millions more than any other areas of the country, still aren’t prepared for something like this because they blow money on other things, and lie about it.

Nah. They don't blow the money on other things.

They steal it and line their own pockets with it. And then lie about it.

48 posted on 03/29/2020 3:28:57 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: bitt
She then goes on to provide several quotes from pastors who pushed back against the idea of closing their churches.

Does she mean like Cuomo and DeBlasio who told NYC there's no danger and they should go out and socialize and have the Chinese New Year, and the NO mayor who let Mardi Gras go on?

Kinda like that?

49 posted on 03/29/2020 3:30:57 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: bitt

That “news” paper is not commonly called THE NY SLIMES without just cause.

TRUST NOTHING that THE SLIMES claims that is more controversial than the latest sports scores or today’s weather report. = LIES are at least as common at THE NY SLIMES as facts are.

Yours, TMN78247


50 posted on 03/29/2020 3:32:13 AM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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To: bitt

That “news” paper is not commonly called THE NY SLIMES without just cause.

TRUST NOTHING that THE SLIMES claims that is more controversial than the latest sports scores or today’s weather report. = LIES are at least as common at THE NY SLIMES as facts are.

Yours, TMN78247


51 posted on 03/29/2020 3:32:20 AM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

This is literally too stupid to discuss.


52 posted on 03/29/2020 3:36:22 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: bitt

That “news” paper is not commonly called THE NY SLIMES without just cause.

TRUST NOTHING that THE SLIMES claims that is more controversial than the latest sports scores or today’s weather report. = LIES are at least as common at THE NY SLIMES as facts are.

Yours, TMN78247


53 posted on 03/29/2020 3:38:22 AM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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To: bitt

The New York Times has clearly a hard on for Christians everywhere on every subject 24/7. They never pass up a chance to hate on Christianity.


54 posted on 03/29/2020 3:46:45 AM PDT by Ron H. (Gab.com)
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To: timestax

Only fit for the outhouse.


55 posted on 03/29/2020 3:48:53 AM PDT by Ron H. (Gab.com)
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To: cba123

Bernie Sanders “is Jewish”, and an atheist (as was Obama)


56 posted on 03/29/2020 3:51:44 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: Ron H.

they’d never give THAT up for Lent.


57 posted on 03/29/2020 3:52:50 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: cba123

the only matches I find when I search her name and Islam/Sharia is that she finds “evangelical”, Pence, etc to be trying to institute “Christian sharia”

She isn’t against every theocracy. She is just against Christians an their freedom of assembly.


58 posted on 03/29/2020 3:59:51 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: a fool in paradise

I think she is simply a democrat, speaking hate.


59 posted on 03/29/2020 4:04:46 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: bitt

Democrats can’t even concede that people are born as either girls or boys. They think it’s a personal choice. Republicans, or at least some of them, myself included, don’t agree that we’re descended from monkeys. This caused a coronavirus epidemic? Woodrow Wilson was POTUS in 1918, during the Spanish Flu pandemic. Does this refute the NYTs’ narrative—I mean...hm...herm...ahem...giggle...”theory”?


60 posted on 03/29/2020 4:09:33 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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