Church defies pandemic rules
A church in St-Léonard is openly defying pandemic rules and there’s nothing here about fining the attendees.
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Kate
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GC 00:51 on 2021-02-15 Permalink
At the beginning of the video, the reporter says police claimed to not “know about it”. If we assume that’s true, just for argument’s sake, that could explain why there were no fines. Regardless of whether or not that’s true, I feel like it’s not the only reason…
Gesualdi claims suicides are up. I wonder what his source for that is, since there’s recently been info published suggesting they are not. Which does seem counterintuitive–especially given that calls to the crisis lines were apparently way up. All the same, if he’s going to base his argument on it, he should at least get the facts right.
Chris 12:25 on 2021-02-15 Permalink
“The church has held regular protests against the public health restrictions”, “More than 100 people showed up to the Good News chapel on Sunday”.
I’ve read the article twice and watched the video, and it’s not clear to me: was yesterday just another protest? Or are they opening for regularly scheduled services?
Either way, they are no doubt emboldened by the recent Hasidic win in court.
Like the pastor said “And what do you do when you’re confronted with things that conflict with the word of god?” Their behaviour is rational and correct given their assumptions. A fine on earth is better than eternal damnation in the afterlife.
Kate 16:50 on 2021-02-15 Permalink
As I’ve no doubt said before, I would not care what they do except that anything that boosts contagion in this city is an attack on us all.
Meezly 19:44 on 2021-02-15 Permalink
“Their behaviour is rational and correct given their assumptions.”
Wouldn’t that be delusional – if their assumptions are not based on reality?
Chris 22:39 on 2021-02-15 Permalink
Kate, I assume that’s not an exhaustive list of things where you “would not care what they do”. 🙂 There are of course many religious behaviours that society should reject: killing of blasphemers, apostates, gays, etc. etc.
Meezly, hehe, interestingly, the DSM specifically exempts religion from their definition of delusional.
Meezly 23:15 on 2021-02-15 Permalink
@Chris. How convenient!
Meezly 23:26 on 2021-02-15 Permalink
Historically, the church has benefitted from all kinds of exemptions: taxes, omissions in the DSM, vaccines, rational thinking, large pandemic gatherings, child abuse. It’s a history of entitlement, really.