What A Great Idea

[Wyrd of Gawd]

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1. Rev. RyeNever seemed to lessen the severity in the years I did get it.
   

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If it had been a severe flu case you would have croaked.

[chimp3]

I have received a flu vaccine annually the last 27 years. Never got the flu. Never had any bad side effects. Since I did not catch the flu, I did not spread the flu.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Rev., can you say for certain that you didn't catch the flu because you didn't get a shot? Or did you just miss your chance at contagion that year?

[Crossless2.0]

From a related article in the Washington Post:

But Texas televangelist Gloria Copeland thinks there’s nothing to worry about. In fact, she says she doesn’t believe there’s such a thing as a flu season.
“We got a duck season, a deer season, but we don’t have a flu season,” she said in a video posted to Facebook last week. “And don’t receive it when somebody threatens you with, ‘Everyone’s getting the flu!’ ”

Her remarks come as physicians insist people get their flu shots, as 85 percent of the children who have died were probably not vaccinated, CDC Director Brenda Fitzgerald told Reuters last month. The flu vaccine does not guarantee against illness, but experts say data suggests vaccinations make the flu milder.
It’s not the first time Copeland — who told her viewers in the video that “Jesus himself gave us the flu shot” and “redeemed us from the curse of flu” — has insisted people put their health in God’s hands. She once bragged during a conference that she and her husband did not need prescription drugs because the Lord heals all illnesses, according to the Associated Press.

In 2015, Copeland was featured in a segment of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” that accused televangelists of manipulating and defrauding their followers. Oliver played a clip of her preaching, in which she talked to her viewers about cancer.

“We know what’s wrong with you. You’ve got cancer. The bad news is we don’t know what to do about it — except give you some poison that will make you sicker,” Copeland said in the clip. “Now, which do you want to do? Do you want to do that, or do you want to sit in here on a Saturday morning, hear the word of God, and let faith come into your heart and be healed?”

In 2013, her husband Kenneth Copeland, also a televangelist, was criticized when the family’s North Texas megachurch found itself at the center of a measles outbreak. Many of the congregants had not been vaccinated, and 21 people fell ill with the contagious disease, the AP reported.



People like this can't die off fast enough. Unfortunately, the Copelands likely won't be the victims of their own pious horseshit. If anything, it will be the poor kid of some knuckle dragger who takes these frauds seriously.

As for the Copelands themselves, something tells me those slimy fucks probably get their flu shots delivered by a 'church physician' with a non-disclosure agreement.

[Rev. Rye]

Rev., can you say for certain that you didn't catch the flu because you didn't get a shot? Or did you just miss your chance at contagion that year?

I didn't change anything the years I didn't get it. As far as I can tell, the only commonality is that I didn't get the shot the years I didn't get the flu. Sometimes, it's less severe, sometimes, more. Naturally, I can't keep track of all the flu strains going around Chicago, who's got them and what airspaces are carrying them, but I'm just making conclusions based on my own experience.

[Ravenshire]

No flu shots.

No vaccinations.

No doctors.

No medication.

No surgeons.

They'll just give all the credit to jeeby anyway.

[Fake Messiah]

Yeah this happens when dumb Christians only read revisionist history, because if they read actual history they would know:

[The Industrial Atheist]

It reminds me of when a guy at my former Pentacostal Church said I would get healed of Celiac disease and eat the gluten containing snacks at the mens meeting. Thankfully my faith was not that great.