Greg Locke's "Large Rally" Against COVID Restrictions Was a Flop

Lives were arguably saved because he's a failure.

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• New York State has sued the Diocese of Buffalo along with former bishops Richard J. Malone and Edward M. Grosz for their decades-long involvement in allegedly covering up child sexual abuse by Catholic priests. The lawsuit follows a two-year investigation into 324 priests and church employees who were accused of abuse, most of whom were protected from ever being publicly named or punished. It’s a reminder that the Spotlight story never really ended.

• What’s the fatality rate of ignorance?

  Christian Nightmares @ChristnNitemare

  Pastor Jack Hibbs makes a false equivalence between not wearing a mask because of the coronavirus and sin, says sin is "100% fatal"

  

• Greg Locke bellyflopped on delivering a “large rally” in protest of Nashville’s latest COVID-related restrictions. Locke’s own cameraman didn’t showcase the audience for good reason — there weren’t a lot of people to see — but the local news claimed there were 200 attendees at most. While the protest still broke the city’s 8-person gathering limit, it was no super-spreader worship concert like we saw a few weeks ago in the same location.

  

  We’re not teasing Locke for not being able to pull a big crowd. (Well, maybe a little.) Rather, we’re pleasantly surprised that more people seem to be coming around to the severity of the pandemic.

• What did I just watch?

  abs @tropicanapussy

  abolish tik tok

  

• A researcher appeared on Egypt’s Al-Hadath Al-Youm TV to offer a dose of reality about why young people are become atheists: Because holy books include a lot of misinformation.

  This isn’t news to most of us, I know, but it’s a big deal when it’s spoken on Egyptian television in part because religious leaders have been too stubborn to actually hear this simple explanation.

• You would think evangelist Franklin Graham would be fully supportive of a reverend running for Senate. But when that reverend is a Democrat who believes women should control their own bodies, as Georgia candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock does, Graham says he holds a “demonic-driven abortion agenda.”
  
  Of course Graham’s theatrics are for a reason: He wants people to vote for the MAGA Republican duo of Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in the January run-off elections. Both Loeffler and Perdue are both accused of insider trading ahead of the pandemic.
  
  I do love this ad from Warnock, though:

  Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock

  I told you the smear ads were coming, but Georgians will see Sen. @KLoeffler’s ads for what they are.

  

• Here are 12 Christian “prophets” who will be eating their own words for Thanksgiving dinner:

• Finally, because you deserve nice things, a musician used televangelist Kenneth Copeland’s maniacal laugh video as inspiration… and the end result is kind of amazing.