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Shawn Wasson

Dr. Shawn Wasson is senior pastor of Bethany Baptist Church.

No excuse to persecute

Saturday, April 4, 2020

When things get difficult, people start looking to see who is to blame. Everyone knows that the epicenter of COVID-19 was Wuhan, China. Somewhere along the line, it became inappropriate to mention the origin of this global pandemic. Unfortunately, the visceral tendency to assign blame has shifted from the obvious, China, to a less convincing target -- the Evangelicals. Are evangelical Christians responsible for the spread of the virus?

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