Got an answer ?

Can anyone answer his question? -https://www.facebook.com/PastorKynanBridges/videos/697738764104069/

Depends. Is "Whatever this latest stupid fucking thing that Stalker posted may be, I'm not going to watch it" an answer?

Too bad. But I digress, if it ain't on CNN, Kevin dismisses the content.

Well, I watched it.  I only can answer his question with another question. 

Who are the "they" he is referring to? 

I doubt that anyone had to tell anybody to go out and protest.  I don't believe it had to be a choice to participate in protest or attend worship services, if one's church was open for services.   As for the congregating despite the virus, people re-establish priorities every day and those who chose to congregate made their choice.  The virus is invisible; the image of what happened in Minneapolis was anything but.  What is the phrase, out of sight out of mind?

If this pastor's church was open for business and nobody came I can understand his frustration.  According to a bio I read he lives and preaches in Tampa FL.  Perhaps his district superintendent has mandated limited or no services at this time to minimize risk to his flock, that may be a sticking point with him.  This is the case where I am, our bishop having issued his recommendations.  Some churches have opened with conditions.  Our pastor has chosen not yet.  No in sanctuary services yet, though there is live streaming every Sunday, sermon and prayer and music taped in various stages and merged (by a person good at IT) into a nice service that can be watched from home.   We've had two drive-through breezeway communion opportunities in which all the precautions were observed.  These had nothing to do with the protesting (which have been quite peaceful overall, another subject), just a creative way of providing communion on the first Sunday of the month as has been our custom. And anyone was welcome, didn't have to be a church member.

Not totally sure exactly what he was getting at, mixing protest and virus with going/not going to church.  But thanks for posting.  Food for thought.

Candy, doesn't Christian mythology say that you don't need a church--or a building--or other people around you--to worship God? That you could do it from the bottom of a swimming pool, or the moon, or during a luau, and it would be just as meaningful?

(I personally feel that such meaning is zero no matter what, but I understand that religion plays an extremely important role in many people's lives.)

Therefore, aren't pastors who are agitating to be able to hold "live" in-church services despite the obvious risks to their congregations advocating putting their parishoners at risk for no good reason?

As for communion, which seems to be an inordinately essential ritual for Catholics, couldn't a priest remotely bless everyone's KFC or whatever and produce the same doctrinal result? It would certainly taste better than thos bland Jesus crackers. ("The thigh of Christ." "Amen.")

Communion is not just for Catholics, Kevin, and I am not Catholic. 

Pastors of many Christian faiths are reciting communion, re the body and blood of Christ on televised services, inviting those watching to partake if they wish with their own elements, whatever they may be.   Somebody said they used banana bread and Captain Morgan...creative!

I don't know what you mean by Christian mythology.  Scripture addresses prayer and worship.  "Where two or more are gathered" comes to mind, but certainly reading and study of scripture and prayer are also performed in solo.  

Yeah, those wafers are pretty tasteless.  Our pastor's wife bakes the best bread, and does it for our communion services.  What a contrast to the store bought kit we had today passing thru the breezeway in our cars.  But the symbolism was there and is all that really matters if you are partaking.  

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'Nuff said...

toad stays stuck on stupid.

Miller, you are an idiot.

You are a racist because you can't think for yourself and blindly follow racists.

Anything else I can help you with?

Well, Christian mythology includes the belief that millions of people around the world every Sunday can actually eat the flesh and drink the blood of a guy who was executed two thousand years ago and was worm food immediately afterward. If you are able to step away from that and look at it objectively, it's an insanely silly myth and ritual. If it hadn't existed in Western religion, and instead, we found it being practiced on some remote Pacific island, we would have laughed ourselves sick--and then massacred the inhabitants, of course.

The broader aspect of Christian mythology, shared by other monotheistic religions, is that the world and universe were created and are controlled by an omnipotent, omniscient superbeing. That's just as dumb--given the utter lack of logical support for that belief--as the Jesus crackers ritual. But I do realize that it's a belief system that's utterly immune to logic.

So I approve of the banana bread and Captain Morgan approach. I think the various varieties and flavors of Christian churches may be missing a bet, though. How about endorsing a certain brand of pizza as the only one that can be turned into Jesus's body by devotees and a certain brand of beer as the only one that can be turned into Jesus's blood? Imagine the revenue stream if Domino's and Budweiser were endorsed by the local Our Lady of Fluffy Bunnies Church as "the only pizza and beer that can be made holy." They'd write big checks to the church and be happy to do so.