The faithless fool directs the faithful to virus hotspots
by Bob Schwartz
Today Trump directed all states to open houses of worship as essential.
Religion is important to a number of Americans, and for a number of those, attending services together is a primary practice.
Religion is unimportant to Trump, except as a political tool. He knows nothing and cares less about faith in general, or about the particular faith he cynically claims as his own.
We know from just a few weeks of churches opening in states such as Georgia and Florida that it is a dangerous situation. Churches have had to close after congregants were infected with COVID-19, and in Florida, a Catholic church not only closed, but the priest has died.
There are few regular gatherings riskier than houses of worship, particularly large congregations. Like concerts and movie theaters—and like political rallies—dozens or hundreds of people together for an hour or more, sometimes vocally (loud voices equaling breathing hard), is an ideal environment for transmission.
Reopening of churches is questionable at best right now, though it hurts to see the genuinely faithful denied their usual style of community. But to see someone so faith-free promote the practice is profane.
Bob Schwartz 
I’m with Richard Dawkins. What kind of merciful God would deliver Covid-19, cancer and all the other terrible diseases to us? Whilst I would not want to deny anyone else’s faith, beliefs or views, it’s high time this hocus pocus was exposed for what it is; tribalism dressed up as superstition. Why we tolerate and worship religious rock-stars like the Pope beats me. Oddly, the Pope and others like him are only doing what politicians are doing increasingly these days; they’re promising something they know they cannot possibly deliver (i.e. life after death). Whilst none of us can be sure about the unanswered questions (the meaning of life etc), those who serve up their religious smoke and mirrors can be no surer about the answers to life’s mysteries than those of us who don’t buy their religious gobbledygook. Ooh…was that a bolt of lightning!