First of all, as a proud, practicing Christian, I can say with confidence that my God has never needed us to do His work.
Cool? Cool.
CNN’s Jake Tapper spoke with Pete Buttigieg on Sunday regarding the COVID-19 vaccine. During the interview, Tapper stated:
“A recent poll showed that almost three in 10 white evangelical Christians said that they will definitely not get vaccinated. That’s the second highest group in the country refusing to get vaccinated behind Republicans.”
“You’ve been outspoken on issues of your personal faith, otherwise I wouldn’t normally bring this up,” Tapper continued. “Why do you think it is that so many of your fellow white evangelical Christians are reluctant to be vaccinated and what’s your message to them?”
Pete Buttigieg tells evangelical Christians that “a vaccine is part of God’s plan.” pic.twitter.com/3Sx3KsLr4R
— Ian Haworth (@ighaworth) April 12, 2021
Pretty sure homosexuality isn’t part of His plan, but apparently Pete has a direct line to God.
Go on, Pete, your naivety is entertaining to us all.
Buttigieg actually said:
“You know, sometimes I’ve heard people I care about saying, you know, ‘If I’m faithful, God’s going to take care of me.’ And I guess what I would hope that they might consider is that maybe a vaccine is part of God’s plan for how you’re going to take care of yourself.”
Buttigieg has a history of using religion as a political platform, often while simultaneously criticizing conservatives.
During the presidential campaign, Buttigieg accused the Republican Party of cloaking itself “in the language of religion.”
“The Republican Party likes to cloak itself in the language of religion. We should call hypocrisy, and for a party that associates with Christianity to say it is OK to suggest that God would smile on the division of families at the hands of federal agents, that God would condone putting children in cages has lost all claim to ever use religion language again,” Buttigieg said in June 2019.
Needless to say, I don’t take seriously anything Buttigieg says about religion, as his actions and pandering prove his hypocrisy. Quite frankly, these lockdowns are going against God’s plan… but they’re not ready to talk about that.