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A Canadian pastor remained behind bars Friday after holding church services in violation of COVID-19 public health orders.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police said pastor James Coates of the GraceLife Church in Edmonton, Alberta, was arrested after police and public health officials visited the church on Sunday and observed violations of the Public Health Act, which says the church cannot be at more than 15% capacity and congregants must physically distance and wear masks.

Mr. Coates had previously been charged on Feb. 8 with violating the order and was served an undertaking with conditions to comply, the CBC reported. He turned himself over to the police on Tuesday and is charged with two counts of contravening the Public Health Act and on one criminal charge for failing to comply with a condition of an undertaking.

A Canadian pastor remained behind bars Friday after holding church services in violation of COVID-19 public health orders. Royal Canadian Mounted Police said pastor James Coates of the GraceLife Church in Edmonton, Alberta, was arrested after police and public health officials visited the church on Sunday and observed violations of the Public Health Act, which says the church cannot be at more than 15% capacity and congregants must physically distance and wear masks. Mr. Coates had previously been charged on Feb. 8 with violating the order and was served an undertaking with conditions to comply, the CBC reported. He turned himself over to the police on Tuesday and is charged with two counts of contravening the Public Health Act and on one criminal charge for failing to comply with a condition of an undertaking.

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Wow... These myths and ignorance-based explanations for man's evil are so Middle Age.

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What is a myth? that Whites were polytheists and animists for most of their existence? that it was there whites who erected the first of our great civilizations to fall to jewish subversion and miscegenation? or that these empires were occupied by white people?

My source for the claim of Satan as a servant of God is the Bible itself, read it and you will see, there is no "God vs Satan" conflict, and never was, this was a revision of the Christian mythology made by the Vatican.

Ignorance can never be a basis for an explanation, misinformation could be, but no explanation could be based on a lack of knowledge, only on the presence of knowledge, or the presence of false beliefs that were mistaken for knowledge by the believer.

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My source for the claim of Satan as a servant of God is the Bible itself

What is God?