Earlier this month a secular group that routinely targets U.S. military chaplains filed a formal complaint against a chaplain who had shared a John Piper e-book Coronavirus & Christ. Piper is a popular conservative Calvinist Baptist preacher who’s chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minnesota.
There are two sentences in Piper’s book that are cited as unacceptable. One says: “Some people will be infected with the coronavirus as a specific judgment from God because of their sinful attitudes and actions.” The other refers to the “sin of homosexual intercourse.” The complaining group wants to create the impression that Piper thinks the pandemic maybe is punishment for homosexuality, though Piper doesn’t say so.
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