Atheist ad in the New York Times

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Hemant Mehta:

It shouldn’t take a full-page ad to remind people — especially government officials — to respect science in the midst of a pandemic, but what else do you expect when the Christian Right takes over the government? It’s not like anyone should expect common sense or competency. 

Churches are currently allowed to ignore lock-down rules in some states, and Christians are suing governors elsewhere, while the Republican Party’s attempts to limit the spread of the virus are hampered because efforts are run by a slew of people who know nothing about epidemiology, who don’t want to listen to scientists if it could hurt their own political prospects, and who care more about the “economy” than people’s lives.

More people are dying because irrational conservative Christians are in control of the government.