{"id":38058,"date":"2021-04-07T18:43:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T16:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=38058"},"modified":"2021-04-07T17:38:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T15:38:48","slug":"chinono-lambasts-brain-dead-anti-covid-19-vaccine-pastors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chinono-lambasts-brain-dead-anti-covid-19-vaccine-pastors","title":{"rendered":"Chin\u2019ono Lambasts \u2018Brain Dead\u2019 Anti-COVID-19 Vaccine Pastors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Respected journalist and filmmaker Hopewell Chin\u2019ono has criticised church pastors and self-styled prophets who discourage people from taking the coronavirus vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post this Wednesday, Chin\u2019ono said such pastors and their followers are \u201cbrain dead\u201d as science and religion do not necessarily have to be contradictory. Chin\u2019ono wrote:<\/p>\n<p>Some of the shocking ignorance in the comment section is not only disappointing, but it explains why Zimbabwe is in this mess with such citizens!<\/p>\n<p>The idea that the white Western world is lying about Covid-19 when Covid-19 originated in China shows a tragic failure to critically think!<\/p>\n<p>The idea that God will serve you because you pray is as stupid as not understanding that it may be the prayers that made scientists find a vaccine!<\/p>\n<p>Such infantile thinking is why the African continent lags behind with more churches than science laboratories.<\/p>\n<p>It is the same reason why you are walking on top of sewage in Harare and urban areas believing that God will make a plan!<\/p>\n<p>It is the reason why you are drinking dirty water and dying from easily treatable cholera hoping that God will make a plan!<\/p>\n<p>It is the reason why Zimbabwe has been oppressed for 20 years or more whilst waiting for God to make a plan!<\/p>\n<p>It is the reason why you spend more money fixing your car suspension due to potholes hoping that God will make a plan!<\/p>\n<p>God doesn\u2019t like stupid people! Respect God and STOP using his name in vain to justify your stupidity! Such a level of stupidity justifies Ian Smith\u2019s ominous predictions.<\/p>\n<p>How can such a person who thinks that Covid-19 is a hoax be trusted with a vote that determines everyone\u2019s future?<\/p>\n<p>We must learn to think and believe in science, without science most of us would have been dead!<\/p>\n<p>Yet we ridicule science and follow fake prophets, Kufa Pfungwa chaiko!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Respected journalist and filmmaker Hopewell Chin\u2019ono has criticised church pastors and self-styled prophets who discourage people from taking the coronavirus vaccinations. In a Facebook post this Wednesday, Chin\u2019ono said such pastors and their followers are \u201cbrain dead\u201d as science and religion do not necessarily have to be contradictory. 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