Virginia Pastor Who Said COVID-19 Was Anti-Trump “Mass Hysteria” Dies of Coronavirus

May he be the first of many.

That's a shame.

Awww...darn.

I really can't find it in me to feel bad about this.

Heaven must have needed another wheezy angel.

Flu-S-A! 🦠 🇺🇸 💀 Flu-S-A! 🦠 🇺🇸 💀 Flu-S-A! 🦠 🇺🇸 💀

Die deplorables die!

He was pro Trump. He thought it was all bullshit

[quote]”As long as I walk in the light of that law [of the Spirit of life], no germ will attach itself to me.”

Whoops.

You must’ve lusted in your heart or something.

Thoughts and prayers.

And the trap door opened on his expiration and he's in Satan's cocksucking queue.

And, of course, now wifey - also wheezing - has set up a GoFundMe

Looks like it's killin' all the right people.

I can't feel that sorry for him. He put other lives in danger too by spreading lies.

And how many people did he and his frau wife infect travelling from Virginia to New Orleans??????

The wifey's GoFundMe goal is $100,000. Can't Jesus provide?

Mock her.

What does she claim she needs a hundred Gs for?

The wife needs to die to help the economy recover, according to the GOP.

It's the patriotic thing to do.

MOAR! MOAR!

Encore!

Someone should leave a message gofundme?? GoFUCKyourself cunt!

Gee, that's too bad.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls ! Tee Hee !

He’s fine. He sends his love.

Oh, well.

Glad he’s dead. Now how about someone over at Fox News? Jeanine Pirro?

It's distasteful to celebrate anyone's death.

And yet, one cannot help but think that this was the very likely and predictable outcome to established science and epidemiology.

One doesn't not run into a burning house and expect that your god and your faith will protect you from being burned. And one certainly does not advocate that others follow you.

Celebrate? I probably won't. But, I'm not really going to be particularly distraught or upset, either.

Plenty of deaths worth celebrating: Mussolini, Hitler, Gaddafi, Bin Laden, Jesse Helms, Roy Cohn, Franco, and of course Mother Teresa

The double pheumonia was more likely to have killed him.

Covid-19 is like AIDS in that you die from complications of the virus, not the virus itself.

[quote]”As long as I walk in the light of that law [of the Spirit of life], no germ will attach itself to me.”

The same Christian idiots who say things like this condemn other religions for being "superstitious".

$100,000? Greedy, entitled, religionist cunt needs to drop dead. Now.

Gee, this is what happens when you decide to be low information and limit your source of news.

Is Trump going to pay for his funeral??

I guess he died of mass hysteria, poor guy. Who knew mass hysteria was so dangerous?

I would have loved to have seen his stupid face when he realized he was dying of Coronavirus LOL

That seems to please you OP? It's a shame you're such a jerk.

This is the equivalent of the part where they all drink the kool aid in the end.

May he rest in peace.

Rest in piss!

R38 here, completing her performance.

[quote] That seems to please you OP? It's a shame you're such a jerk.

No asshole it doesn't "please me". He died because of his own rank stupidity and arrogance, so I have no intention of feeling sad for him.

So, nice try, but kindly fuck off.

I don’t feel sorry for him.

Up you go, Christianuts!

This pleases me

I guess Satan needed another minion.

More proof COVID-19 is a plague sent by God to punish Christians for their sins.

I can't feel sorry for any of them. They keep infecting other people so perhaps it would be better if they do die.

That's a shame.

Pass the popcorn.

So the wife is looking for $100,000? Oh, but surely as a conservative she doesn't believe in handouts?!

Also expect the conservative right to be decimated over the next two months, Trump will be the death of the current republican party but not for the reasons everyone expected.

I'm not kidding, my partner's fundie family is pulling this same shit. Trying to come to the house while we are sick AF and ridiculing us when we tell them to stay away. It was really disgusting. They don't come around us any other time. His brother said "God will take care of us". They really don't care about anyone else but themselves. People like this usually just use God and religion to excuse their selfish ways.

We're in NYS, so who knows how many they are infecting. They really are treating it as some conspiracy to ruin America.

Wonder if she'll donate to all the people they've infected with their stupidity. I usually don't feel this hateful, but this situation has left me with little tolerance for ignorant assholes.

Has Nelson Muntz been reached for comment yet?

He clearly died from hype, because the virus is no worse than the common flu.

r55, He died from pheumonia.

R52, my deeply religious grandmother used to say, “The Lord helps those who help themselves.”

She used to say that a lot, mostly about people like your relatives. It was the religious version of “bless your heart.”

Womp womp

When it is a money making prospect, COVID-19 is no longer mass hysteria.

Marry me, r13! ❤️

May he rest in piss🙏

That bitch has the go-fund-me because she wants some new major appliances and some jewelry. The stupid husband's dead so she feels she deserves something to make her feel better.

Thoughts and prayers.

Doubts and glares.

"His wife also stated that the family has set up a GoFundMe account."

Excuse me, but fuck off. GoFund my self-quarantining ass. Y'all went on a holiday in the midst of a pandemic and spread the same to others in the area, now you want fucking handouts and are taking up public resources? FUCK OFF.

What a waste of health resources trying to save these idiots.

Score another death for Trump and Fox News misinformation strategy.

[quote] I'm not kidding, my partner's fundie family is pulling this same shit. His brother said "God will take care of us".

Why wouldn’t you believe this? God obviously took care of this guy.

👺

[quote] Womp womp

[quote]—My teensy weensy violin

“Womp womp” is played on a trombone

$22,432 raised so far.

Sickening.

Well, that'll buy her a new Honda Civic without many of the luxury options. Next up, a 75" flat screen!

You seemed pleased someone else has died. You must be a really good person.

Please tell me there are hateful responses on the gofundme page!

R72, we get it. You’re an amazing person.

This pastor died but his statements put everyone in his congregation who listened to him and trusted him in jeopardy.

Nobody is happy because he died. But if anyone deserves to die, it’s people like him, who endanger others.

From the article:

Spradlin was likely already infected when, on March 13, he posted a highly misleading meme comparing COVID-19 and swine flu deaths, suggesting that the current virus response was “mass hysteria” created by the media for no reason other than to hurt Donald Trump

That same day he shared a post telling a “true” story of a missionary who cared miraculously for bubonic plague victims without himself succumbing to the illness. That post explained that “As long as I walk in the light of that law [of the Spirit of life], no germ will attach itself to me.”

“As long as I walk in the light of that law [of the Spirit of life], no germ will attach itself to me.”

Where have we heard that before?

“As long as I walk in the light of that law [of the Spirit of life], no germ will attach itself to me.”

Who you callin' " germ," fucker?

[quote] Next up, a 75" flat screen!

Too big for the trailer. Thinking maybe a 55” or max 65”.

[quote] You seemed pleased someone else has died. You must be a really good person.

And you seem like some half witted fool who thinks any fan of Kim Jong Trump can do no wrong. I guess you think this fool's death is the fault of whoever he caught the virus from.

What were his last words?

"Never mind"?

More please.

Why aren’t “thoughts and prayers” enough for this family? They were enough for all of the mass shooting victims’ families.

Does anyone who posts memes such as these ever come back a few weeks later and admit they were wrong? I heard from a friend of mine that my wife's cousin posted something on Facebook a few weeks ago about how this hysteria is all being drummed up by Democrats to hurt Trump. I wonder if he ever took that post down or admitted he was wrong? I unfriended him a few years ago so I guess I'll never know,

If you click on OP's link the blogger has added this statement: **NOTE TO READERS: I beg you not to post disrespectfully on the family’s social media. Not only are they grieving, that would alienate this community and damage the potential for learning from this important morality tale. Thanks, Bo.***

Here is the go fund me link. Some of the comments are truly from another planet. Jesus this, Jesus that.

only the beginning

Just checked out the Gofundme.... somebody gave $1000! Not happy that he died but it is time to publicly shame ignorance. I cannot believe that we still have to defend science....but, hey, look at our president.

[quote] Thanks, Bo.

What did Luke say?

[quote] damage the potential for learning from this important morality tale.

They may call it an "important morality tale", I call it an empirical proof that Darwin was right.

The page has the stupidest comments. "Prayers!" Yeah, those didn't help, ya dumbass.

It's too bad one can't comment without donating. I'm tempted to donate $1 just to read those fools to filth.

I hate this shit - so they can say whatever they want, spread disinformation, blame Obama, but we're supposed to hold our tongues when this whips around and turns out to be true?

They're the only ones who can hate - not you. Fuck them. I hope they are getting everything they deserve on social media and other places.

If reversed, they would NOT hold their tongues. If it was a liberal who died, they would get so much and more.

Cunts.

Death by whataboutism. Since he posted this "but Obama..." meme a couple of weeks ago, the death toll in the US has risen to over 2,000 and climbing. Experts predict at least 200,000, far surpassing "Obama's" H1N1 death toll, by the time this is all over.

good.

I can't say this anywhere else, so I will say it here. If Trump wants to tell people that the virus is a hoax, or that we will see packed churches at Easter, and his followers want to believe that, then I say more power to them. It only means there will be fewer Trump voters alive in November and I'm all for that!

If you are willing to go out and get infected for Donald Trump, then you deserve to die.

Oh, well.

*shrugs*

Typing through tears.

[quote] It only means there will be fewer Trump voters alive in November and I'm all for that!

I'd normally be right there with you, if not for the fact that these poorly-educated MAGAts probably infected dozens of non-Trump voters as well. I just hope there's more of us left than there are of them.

he looked considerably overweight and red in the face so I am guessing early cardiovascular issues and high blood pressure. A big chunk of maga s fit that profile...........just saying.

Guy is dead. People die. Matters most to the dead person and those who loved them. That’s the way of the world.

It was interesting that the wife spoke much about agenda-driven media and how much she couldn’t trust what she heard from the media, both sides. Did she hear Trump, and and the doctors in China, Italy, and now the US, etc?

When will Cult 45 realize that just because most of the media is desperately calling out the lies of the idiot in the White House and the rest of the media is desperately covering for him, there are still primary sources of information that you can listen to and evaluate through some prism of objectivity that most of us possess to some degree, even Trump supporters.

Yes, media is agenda-driven, but how many Trump supporters will die because of their own agenda?

Just think about all the megachurches. The ones defying the congregating edicts. Imagine how the virus can spread trough those.

And with every person they contact, like the grocery store clerk, everyone in the grocery store aisle, whomever uses the POS machine after them, the pharmacist, etc. etc.

It’s a disgrace.

Here's an interesting take on this preacher by a transgender woman who knew him.

His ideas deliberately put lives in danger and so I'm not surprised he died.

I know this is pretty terrible but I am not mad that a great number of ignorant Trump supporters are likely going to get sick and die through their ignorance. It's natural selection and prevents them voting for him again in future. I realise that it will prolong the shutdown for everyone else but every cloud...