TheProgressivePatriot
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I am posting this in "Religion and Ethics" because, in my view, this preacher is displaying a astounding LACK of ethics. He is putting vulnerable and gullible people at enormous risk in order to maintain his control and power over them
I am not here to argue the merits of climate change or the pandemic. My question is "does he have the right to mix religion with science and politics, and in doing so, encouraging people to engage in what is arguably self destructive behavior? More importantly, there are, no doubt, children involved who cannot give informed consent to being exposed to a virus and are likely to be influenced these views on climate change and their relationship to the each, setting up a bleak prospect for future of themselves and many others.
Bottom line is that ones right live according to the tents of their beliefs ends when the the act of putting those beliefs into practice infringes on the rights and well being of others.
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MacArthur, head of Grace Community Church, a suburban Los Angeles megachurch, has been in the headlines lately for defying local COVID-19 heath guidelines, and holding indoor services for thousands with no masks and no social distancing.
However, in addition to being a COVID denier, MacArthur is also a climate change denier, who rejects the science behind climate change and argues that the Earth is a “disposable planet.”
I am not here to argue the merits of climate change or the pandemic. My question is "does he have the right to mix religion with science and politics, and in doing so, encouraging people to engage in what is arguably self destructive behavior? More importantly, there are, no doubt, children involved who cannot give informed consent to being exposed to a virus and are likely to be influenced these views on climate change and their relationship to the each, setting up a bleak prospect for future of themselves and many others.
Bottom line is that ones right live according to the tents of their beliefs ends when the the act of putting those beliefs into practice infringes on the rights and well being of others.