Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, archbishop emeritus of St. Louis, is ill with COVID-19 and has been placed on a ventilator, according to a Saturday night tweet from his Twitter account. We certainly wish him well, but this is getting beyond ridiculous.

Quite obviously, it is highly unlikely that Burke was immunized. It almost proves that the immunization “thing” tracks one’s political views far more so than one’s religious views. The Catholic church, though paralyzed with its own issues, is not normally associated with an anti-science bent but there is a section that is very much MAGA-right. In some ways, it seems as though there are two versions of the Catholic Church in the U.S.. Burke likely belonged to the Trumper one.

From the St. Louis Dispatch:

According to the National Catholic Reporter, Burke “has expressed skepticism about the need for distancing measures to contain the coronavirus and has opposed mandatory vaccination schemes.”

In a homily given last December, Burke called COVID the “Wuhan virus,” and said, “It has been used by certain forces inimical to families and to the freedom of nations, to advance their evil agenda.”

Hold up. There are legitimate reasons to be wary of mandatory vaccinations. In many ways, this country doesn’t have a good history when it mandates vaccines. But to couple that with the need for distancing measures? That sounds a whole lot like simply COVID denial of the type we associate with one guy.

Burke, the website said, also said “there is a certain movement to insist that now everyone must be vaccinated against the coronavirus COVID-19 and even that a kind of microchip needs to be placed under the skin of every person, so that any moment he or she can be controlled by the State regarding health and about other matters which we can only imagine.”

That’s right. In ways that one can only imagine because there’s not a damn thing real about them. And this guy is/was high up. One would’ve thought that they’d have more from which to choose than a full-blown MAGA…

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