The Health of Seven Million Americans Cannot Risk Covid. Goodbye Church

There are parents who want badly for their children to experience the training and rituals of Christianity. Their children, or they themselves, are immunocompromised. This population is about seven million people in the U.S. Their fellow church members refuse to wear masks in church. Many in this group with compromised health is giving up on attending church. 

Unfortunately for the immunocompromised, wearing a mask is what people of the wrong party do. That is a sacrifice beyond what they can tolerate.

Intolerance started in the Bible. There is the passage condemning those with a club foot or a disfigured face. Then we move to gays, pagans and atheists. There is no room for them.

Today in the state where I live, Iowa, the Governor signed a bill preventing students who were once registered as boys from competing in sport as girls. There is not clear evidence these trans girls gain an advantage, but pointing at some group and yelling, "Shame," is plenty common in the faith. Fortunes have been made in the collection plates and in harvesting votes. 

I understand some accommodations to the spread of disease have been made. The vessel used to serve communion used to be simply wiped after each person sipped. Now the ritual has been changed to something more sanitary. Wearing masks in church is a bridge too far. They love Jesus, but there is a limit.

Religion has always been about what people enjoy, not what is passed down to them by those further up the ladder. Peachers telling people what they should believe does is not a good economic model. Those in the pews telling the preacher what to preach works better. 

A person who is in danger of contracting disease best leave church behind.