We don’t think the artist in the above photo will be performing, but a Pittsburgh pastor says he plans to organize an outdoor “Woodstock”-like Easter service to protest the stay-at-home orders to prevent coronavirus.
Christian pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth made the announcement on Tuesday.
“I’m gonna announce it. We’re gonna hold an outdoor Easter blowout service. Not online. A national gathering. You come from all over, like Woodstock. And we’re gonna gather and lift up Jesus Christ,” Shuttlesworth says.
His announcement comes following the arrests of several pastors in the U.S. for violating the stay-at-home orders.
Earlier this month he condemned European churches that are taking measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
“Shame on every European full gospel church, bunch of sissies, that shut down during this thing,” Shuttlesworth said. “If you’re putting out pamphlets and telling everybody to use Purell before they come into the sanctuary and don’t greet anyone, you should just turn in your ministry credentials and burn your church down — turn it into a casino or something,” he said on social media. “You’re a loser. Bunch of pansies. No balls. Got neutered somewhere along the line and don’t even realize it.”
The pastor also claims that coronavirus prevention is the work of the devil.
“Let me tell you if the devil doesn’t want there to be mass gatherings — it’s time to hold mass gatherings. If I lived in Italy I would call an open-air crusade to pray for the sick.
If you have to go to jail, go to jail.”
Of course his followers will believe anything that’s said as long as they hear Jesus every few words.
So, as someone remarked, “Like Woodstock, Only With Disease And Jesus.”
