This is well-documented.
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Claim: Televangelist Kenneth Copeland said that Christians cannot contract COVID-19.
Rating: TRUE/CORRECT ATTRIBUTION
Explanation:
Here is the video:
Transcript:
"I was noticing today, President Trump, his beautiful First Lady—without masks. They are immune! They are immune. And this display of our president giving God thanks—for helping him in that time, and he walked out immune, somehow—glory to God, woo! Thank you, Jesus!
Hey, we’re immune! We’re going through this thing with a Holy Spirit immunity—from the works of the Devil!"
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Now, I know some will claim that Copeland is merely using President Trump's recovery from COVID as a metaphor for Christian's immunity to the power of demons.
However, after watching the video several times, I am convinced that this is not the case. Why would he pause that long in the middle of a sentence unless the rest of the sentence didn't really matter. I think "the works of the Devil" is a reference to COVID.
For these reasons, I rate this claim TRUE. However, lots of Christians have died from COVID, so his claim is FALSE.
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