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Elderly Louisiana Church Member Dies Of COVID-19 Symptoms; Pastor Says It’s A Lie

The resurrection of Rev. Jim Jones is now complete. He currently resides in the body of Rev. Tony Spell. Let’s all drink the Kool-Aid as we praise the Rev. Tony Spell.

Harold Orillion, 78, passed away earlier this week of COVID-19 symptoms. Orillion was a member of a Louisiana megachurch pastored by Spell, who defied stay-at-home lockdown requests by the Governor, telling his parishioners that they were going to have service no matter what.

According to the Daily Beast [1], Pastor Snell claims the report of his member dying of coronavirus is a lie. He said that his church member didn’t have COVID-19 because he wasn’t on a ventilator.

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Is the coroner lying about the cause of death? Why on earth would the coroner lie? What does the coroner gain from lying about this issue? And, Mr. Spell, please explain how this novel virus is a ‘political act’? Hundreds of people are dying daily, and YOU think it is about politics? Please explain that….. we’re waiting.

He claims 1345 people sat 6 feet apart. 1345 x 6 = 48,420 feet, divided by 5280 feet per mile = 9.17 miles of pews. Since the pews are closer than six feet apart, then seating would have to be every other row. That means there would have to be 18.34 miles of pews. That indeed is a megachurch.

Who’s lying now?

He previously claimed that his church was not at risk of being infected because coronavirus was “politically motivated.” Ahead of his Easter service, he told Reuters: “Satan and a virus will not stop us… God will shield us from all harm and sickness. We are not afraid.”

However, a church usher, 78-year-old Harold Orillion, died in Baton Rouge’s Our Lady of the Lake Hospital on Wednesday. His cause of death was listed as “acute respiratory distress syndrome, 2nd pneumonia, 2nd COVID-19,” East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner William ‘Beau’ Clark said in a statement to The Daily Beast.

Local lawyer Jeffrey Wittenbrink, who attended several church events during the pandemic and represented Life Tabernacle in its legal challenge to Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards’ religious gatherings ban, also confirmed he was on oxygen support in a hospital on Thursday after testing positive for coronavirus.

Reached by phone by TV station WAFB, Spell disputed the coroner’s cause of death finding for Orillion. “That is a lie,” he said, without elaborating. He told another station, WVLA, which first reported on the death, that Orillion “died of a broken heart” after the parishioner’s son died the previous week, triggering early onset Parkinson’s in Orillion.

Wittenbrink had made numerous Facebook posts criticizing Louisiana’s lockdown restrictions and defending Spell’s right to continue holding large services. “Will the government stop the virus? Or will God stop the virus? Jesus healed the sick. Mother Teresa and countless saints have attended the sick. We are quarantining the healthy,” he wrote in one post.

He wrote that many members of Spell’s congregation were poor, had no internet access, and were bused in to worship “because they have no cars, and he feeds them—not just spiritual food, but regular food as well.” He said Spell “is not being narcissistic, he is serving his flock.” [Daily Beast]

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It’s hard for me not to want people who don’t take this seriously to get it. The sad thing is that it won’t hit some of them until it hits someone close to them. I have two friends in the medical field with immune-compromised children. Every day is a trial for them. One of them has saved hundreds, if not thousands of lives over the last decade, but they might need to walk away to keep their family safe.

Spell who said no one would get it at the service because it was politically motivated, and said that God would protect them from infection, now says that any that die for COVID-19 after being infected at his services will die in the name of God and freedom.

No, sir, they die for putting faith in a false prophet who lied to them and said God would protect them. Now the other people that attended his services and may be infected spread out throughout their communities.

 

 

This piece was written by Wayne Dupree on April 18, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com [4] and is used by permission.

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