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Tony Spell seems determined to infect every man, woman, and child in Louisiana with an infectious disease in the name of Jesus money, clout, and ego.
The Life Tabernacle Church pastor in Baton Rogue has become infamous for defying the state’s for violating the state government’s stay-at-home order by holding his weekly masses as scheduled, preaching that people had ‘nothing to fear’ and that ‘true Christians do not mind dying’ before urging people to hand their stimulus checks over to the church.
Now, just one day after it was reported that Spell’s lawyer has pneumonia in both lungs and is hooked up to oxygen after contracting COVID-19, one of the pastor’s parishioners and ‘right-hand man’ has reportedly died of the virus.
This has not phased Spell, who has reached cartoonish levels of delusion.
Via TMZ:
A 78-year-old man who was a member of Life Tabernacle Church has reportedly died from COVID-19. According to NBC Local 33, the man’s cause of death was “acute respiratory distress syndrome, 2nd pneumonia, 2nd COVID-19.” Spell disputed the man’s cause of death, saying he died of a broken heart after recently losing his son. It’s unclear when the man last attended service at Spell’s church.
Spell confirmed to television station WAFB that Mr. Orillion’s cause of death was a ‘lie’, despite the coroner’s determination.
Unreal.
If it were up to Tony Spell, we’re all fucked.
‘My hope is not in a vaccine for a virus, but all my hope is in Jesus,’ he told his packed congregation.
Jesus, waiting on you bro.