Saw an item on our local news last night about the Church making a legal challenge against lockdown for Sunday services.
Is a journey to a church to worship strictly a necessary journey? Also, most churchgoers are in the at-risk group, generally being of the older variety.
For many, the Church is a support lifeline but, from the aspect of worship, it's not necessary to be in a church to pray - why not take yourself to a woodland glade and contemplate your deity while immersed in the wonders of nature?
Then there's the fact that the Church challenging entirely sensible legislation to protect lives by not overwhelming the NHS may open the floodgates to litigation for all manner of businesses that shouldn't be open. Is that moral and ethical?
On the pro side, it's not as if churches are milling with people every day of the week - most are only open one or two days, and then only for short times, which is enough time for pathogens on surfaces to die.
How about limiting attendance at church to those who need it for support - but how the hell do you police that? Many gym goers say they need their gyms for exactly the same reason, but I think that argument is rather specious from gym owners - open a church to those in need of the mental support and you have to open gyms for the same reason, at least according to some.
Click and collect sermons could the the solution, perhaps?
Analyse and discuss.
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