As I remarked in my previous post, there is something weird about fundamentalist Christians who seem to want to help their malevolent designer's special creation, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, kill people or at least make them sick.
This one, Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne, of The River church in Tampa, Florida, and Florida-based Revival Ministries International, who, along with his good friend, Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth, has been doing his best to ensure as many people as possible get Covid-19, is now lying in a desperate attempt to fool people into not having the vaccine medical science has developed to combat it.
Right-wing evangelist Jonathan Shuttlesworth, a close friend of Rodney Howard-Browne, says he intends to hold a large Woodstock-like Christian gathering in defiance of stay-at-home orders. pic.twitter.com/sn5Pvt1NA5
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 31, 2020
Right-wing pastor and ardent conspiracy theorist Rodney Howard-Browne says the COVID vaccine is a satanic plot to change your DNA and "remove the God factor out of people so they won't feel God." pic.twitter.com/xU20Jm0LzK
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) November 18, 2020
Shuttleworth then lied some more, claiming Howard-Browne had been arrested 'for holding a church service' and announced plans to defy the ban on social gatherings and hold a 'Woodstock-style' service. In fact, Howard-Browne had been arrested and charged with defying the ban on gatherings in places of worship, not for holding a church service, which he could easily and legally done by live-streaming it. Holding a church service as such is not and never was illegal, but the desire for martyrdom is strong with these two.
I’m gonna announce it… We’re gonna hold an outdoor Easter blowout service. Not online. A national gathering. You come from all over, like Woodstock. And we’re gonna gather and lift up Jesus Christ. I’m not ashamed that Dr. Rodney got arrested. I’m ashamed that when they wanted to arrest preachers for having church, in the entirety of the state, there was only one to come for.He continued to hold his super-spreader events through the summer, like the one pictured here in Tampa, Florida (just one of two that day), during which he lied some more to his credulous audience and became even more violent and threatening:
Somebody said, ‘Oh, it’s going to come back in the fall.’ No, it’s not coming back in the fall. Somebody said, ‘There will be another plague.’ I’m sure there will be, but the River church will never shut again, ever. And I’ll tell you right now, we don’t run around with armed guards, but if I have to get a military here, I will. I’ll shoot my way into the church, and I’ll shoot my way out of the church. We ain’t shutting down. That happened once, but it will never happen again.
The River Church's super-spreader morning event in June. There was a second one that evening. |
According to this report on the New York Post, Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne labelled those who were afraid of the virus, 'pansies' and said he was "excited" and "emotional" that the pandemic could be the "the end of days", in an admission that he is running what amounts to a death cult based on Rapture theology, and isn't bothered who dies of Covid-19. In a chilling announcement of his and his death cult's selfish disregard for the lives and welfare of others, he told a packed church:
If you cannot be saved in church, you in serious trouble. Listen, this has to be the safest place. We are not stopping anything. I’ve got news for you, this church will never close. The only time the church is closed is when the Rapture is taking place. For me, it doesn’t matter … Jesus is coming really, really soon. If you don’t believe God, and trust God, you will not make it in the days coming.
Daily coronavirus cases, Florida. |
Pastor Howard-Brown's latest lie is that the vaccine will change your DNA to remove the 'God factor' as part of a Satanic plot to stop you believing his childish superstition (and paying tithes):
The vaccine they’re counting on is an RNA vaccine that actually changes your DNA. So they want to remove the God Factor out of people. They won’t feel God. They won’t… because a lot of the stuff was… really in the creation of the Super Soldier, which they wanted to bring about soldiers which had no emotions whatsoever. So a lot of the stuff, it’s all the End Time wicked plan of the Enemy to totally destroy humanity because he hates man…The RNA in the vaccine codes for the viral 'spike' protein and does nothing to your DNA. And there is no such thing as a 'God factor' in DNA anyway. This entire thing is a lie designed to appeal to the superstitious dupes who follow these grifters and charlatans who will tell any lie and bear false witness against anyone to enhance their own income, power and influence and are admirers of President-reject Donald Trump for doing the same.
It is, or course, pure paranoid fantasy and the deluded ravings of a man who is terrified that his income might be hit when people no longer buy into the quack 'cures' he peddals in the form of magic spells to the same God whom Christians believe created the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the first place, in full and perfect knowledge of what it would do.
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