Well, It Happened AGAIN....

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You can't really do anything but feel sorry for these people. Seriously. This isn't anything to laugh at, or to "celebrate." We've had yet another anti-vaxxer succumb to covid. In this case, it was Nashville conservative talk show host Phil Valentine, the son of the late Democratic congressman Tim Valentine. On July 11 Valentine announced, via Facebook, "The rumors are true. I have covid. Unfortunately, for the haters out there, it looks like I'm going to make it." He decided to take a couple of days off from his Nashville talk show to be cautious. He never went back to work. His family claimed he was not an anti-vaxxer; however, a June tweet said, "If you're getting your child vaccinated in light of this new CDC information, you're an idiot." He also claimed the reports of hospitals being overwhelmed were false. Later he was hospitalized and his family begged people to get vaccinated. There's an old joke about a man who refused to leave his home as the rain kept falling and the river kept rising. He was on his porch and a boat came by, saying, "Come on, let us rescue you!" The man shook his head, saying, "God's going to take care of me." Later he was on the second floor, hanging out the window, and another boat came by, offering to take him away. "God's going to take care of me!" Later a Coast Guard helicopter tried to pluck him off the roof but he refused, saying, "God's going to take care of me." Well, he drowned. When he got to Heaven he said to St. Peter at the gates, "What happened?" St. Peter replied, "We sent two boats and a helicopter. What else did you want?" While that's humorous, it does highlight a very serious verse of Scripture: DO NOT test God. It's in Deuteronomy 6:16, and Jesus repeated it when Satan was tempting Him to rebuff the temptation. God gave us common sense. I believe in God, but I have locks on my door. And I wear my seat belt. And I take my asthma medications. Yes, and I got vaccinated. The people who are supposedly mocking the medical advances that God has blessed us with (author of the book of Luke and the Acts, St. Luke, was a physician, remember) are not, in the eyes of this believer, doing anything that might lead others to faith. And if a believer sees it that way, what do the unbelievers think? Phil Valentine was 61. A news article about Valentine's death and his stance against covid: