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Eble, MD Blogs. Hilary of Poitiers. Do not lose heart. Zubair Simonson Blogs. Subscription Options x. Some are still underestimating the virus today. For example, there are those who believe that religious gatherings should be exempt from lockdowns and social distancing recommendations, as we have seen in Kansas and elsewhere, for example. There has been a lot of flippancy on social media over how religious communities choose to act in response to the virus, with this being a fairly standard response:.
Religious communities are especially at risk because of emphasis on collective worship — this means both acting collectively, and getting together in the same space to pray, to perform religious study, and so on. These people will then go on to interact with cashiers at the store, with neighbors in the street, and so on. The threat will not be contained. In The Conversationalist full disclosure: I was the co-founder of the organization that helped launch this website and have contributed to it in the past , Chrissy Stroop has written a breakdown of how Christian extremism in particular can threaten public health.
It is important to note, however, that other religious communities can and have ignored the rules on social distancing — and that this is a worldwide problem with many different contributing factors.
For an open source researcher, one interesting area of study is how different topics can overlap in the pandemic conspiracy fever swamps. Your personal experiences may be of use here as you pick a particular topic to research. I live in the United States and grew up in the so-called Bible Belt, for example — and am therefore interested in keeping a close eye on how disinformation can be accelerated by existing hot button issues in the local Christian communities.
One hot button issue for American Christian conservatives is abortion. After hearing from multiple readers that conservative Christians were linking abortion to a possible COVID vaccine, I became intrigued as to how these topics play off each other on social media.
I typed in two search terms, abortion and vaccines, into the Twitter search bar recently, as if I were a layperson, doing a casual search on the subject. First there is Twitter, immediately trying to redirect me to an official government website about vaccines thanks, Twitter! Or is it? As the boys from Numberphile explain , doesn't really have any remarkable mathematical properties, but if you look back into its history, it reveals something pretty incredible about the way the Bible was originally written.
Turns out, what you see in the The Book of Revelation where the writer refers to in an apocalyptic vision isn't entirely what you get. Put simply, is being used as a code, and not a particularly subtle one, if you were alive and literate at the time of the New Testament. This text was originally written in ancient Greek, where numbers are written as letters, as they are in Hebrew - the other main language of the original Biblical texts.
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