Pundit hospitalized with COVID after saying it's God's judgment against LGBTQ & Jewish people

[Behind the Aegis]

Far-right pundit Rick Wiles established himself during the pandemic as one of the top Evangelical news sources for hate-based conspiracy theories about the virus. He said that the world would be a “better place” after a “genocide” caused by the vaccines kills 70% of the population. Time and again, he said that COVID-19 is “God’s judgment” against people he doesn’t like.

He has just been hospitalized with coronavirus.

Wiles made national headlines last year when his website got White House press credentials despite his long history of hate speech. Now his church is asking for “an army of people praying” for their ailing pastor.

“Flowing Streams [Church, where Wiles is senior pastor] is experiencing a sudden cluster of flu and Covid among some employees and their relatives,” Wiles’s news outlet, TruNews, said in a post on the conservative platform Gab last week. “Rick Wiles made the decision tonight to close the offices and studios until a TBA date next week.”

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[elleng]

1. "Flowing Streams [Church, where Wiles is senior pastor] is experiencing

a sudden cluster of flu and Covid among some employees and their relatives,”

[Merlot]

17. "A sudden cluster" - no one could have seen this coming

[RKP5637]

2. Damn crackpot, to hell with him!!!!

[Blue_true]

7. I hope that he gets really sick, stays in the hospital for a while,

then fully recover. It would be interesting to see what the hell he says then.

I read today that over 97% of the people now getting COVID19 are not vaccinated. Me, I am fully vaccinated, but will continue to mask up when out and about until I see concrete information on how the Pfizer vaccine does against the Gamma variant (the one with three modified spike protein chains and is much more contagious than the Beta variant that caused problems in Europe).

[RKP5637]

11. Yep, I've done the same, fully vaccinated, but still mask up when out. Still too many variants and

variables ...

[RockRaven]

3. Calling Rick Wiles a "pundit" is an insult to... almost everyone, really.

The word pundit has it's roots in a Sanskrit word meaning "knowledge owner" or "learned man" or "scholar" and while the word is perhaps applied to liberally in general, Rick Wiles is definitely not a pundit.

[ShazzieB]

14. He's in Florida, right?

How does this sound?

"Florida man hospitalized with COVID after saying it's God's judgment against LGBTQ & Jewish people"

[Ligyron]

4. If he went to the hospital it must be serious.

Gee wizz, I guess God doesn’t like him very much either.

[RKP5637]

12. As they say, god works in mysterious ways!

[msongs]

5. the world would also be a better place IMO if the rapture came and took this guy and his

followers, leaving us in peace

[Ms. Toad]

6. Pretty sure he's already been released. n/t

[Cha]

8. Rick Wiles Got KARMA!

[Srkdqltr]

9. Looks like god was punishing him and his . maybe

[Deuxcents]

10. I wish him hell

That’s what he pushed on his flock. I gonna double mask after this😎

[mountain grammy]

13. It's been a few days

as far as I see he's still hospitalized, his daughter too. The underlying story is how many in the congregation?

[Thunderbeast]

15. Hoping for a L O N G recovery...

Does anyone suppose he owes his cretin followers an explanation?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. Charles Darwin approves.

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