Religious Ignorance Kills: Landon Spradlin, a Virginia pastor who claimed the “mass hysteria” around the coronavirus pandemic was part of a media plot against Trump, has died from the virus.
Landon Spradlin’s family never got to say goodbye.
The 66-year-old father and husband from Virginia died due to complications from COVID-19 on Wednesday morning in North Carolina.
While on the way home from a mission trip, Spradlin collapsed and was taken to a hospital in Concord, North Carolina. He was eventually put on a ventilator as his condition worsened.
According to reports, Spradlin, a 66-year-old Christian “musical evangelist,” fell ill while on a missionary trip to New Orleans with his wife.
Friendly Atheist reports Spaldrin went to New Orleans to “wash it from its Sin and debauchery.”
On his Facebook page Spradlin shared a misleading meme attempting to minimize COVID-19, comparing the virus to the swine flu, and suggesting that the response to the coronavirus pandemic was media created “mass hysteria” to damage Trump:
Spradlin also shared a post from a pastor claiming that a missionary in South Africa “protected” himself from the bubonic plague with the “Spirit of God.” A quote from the post reads:
As long as I walk in the light of that law [of the Spirit of life], no germ will attach itself to me.
The stupid, it kills.
The following is a sample of the reactions to Spraldin’s death via Twitter:
Landon Spradlin was a 66-year-old Christian “musical evangelist” who had previously shared opinions that the pandemic was simply “mass hysteria” from the media. He fell ill while on a trip to New Orleans. He has become one of the first deaths in Virginia from coronavirus.
Landon Spradlin was a pastor. On FB, he shared a meme dismissing the media's reaction to COVID-19 as mass hysteria. He also shared a post that discussed protecting oneself from the plague with "the spirit of God" Landon Spradlin died at 4am Wednesday morning. BE CAREFUL. BE SAFE https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1243265481601093637 …
Bottom line: Landon Spradlin, a Virginia pastor who claimed the “mass hysteria” around the response to the coronavirus pandemic was part of a media plot against Trump, has died from the virus.
Pastor Who Claimed Covid-19 ‘Hysteria’ Was Plot Against Trump Dies From Virus (Image via Twitter)
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