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531: Higher Power Edition

The Scathing Atheist

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The Antichrist Is Coming After Pastor Mike McClure

Pastor Mike McClure decided that disease prevention was less important than his income during the COVID-19 lockdowns. He held two services every Sunday, each drawing between three and 500 congregants. And not only did he not enforce mask mandates or social distancing protocols, he actively discouraged them. The city fined him $350,000 and he didn't pay it. So they find him some more and he didn’t pay that and they found him some more. Eventually after he'd racked up over $4 million in fines, the county sued.

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