As more and more major retailers across the nation temporarily close their doors in an effort to protect their employees’ health and control the spread of coronavirus, Christian crafting superstore Hobby Lobby is conducting business as usual.
Last week, Hobby Lobby managers received a memo from CEO David Green informing them that all stores must remain open because his wife, Barbara, who he describes as a “prayer warrior,” spoke to God and he told her he’s got everything under control.
“In her quiet prayer time this past week, the Lord put on Barbara’s heart three profound words to remind us that He’s in control,” Green wrote. “Guide, Guard, and Groom.”
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The evangelical billionaire’s letter continued: “We serve a God who will Guide us through this storm, who will Guard us as we travel to places never seen before, and who, as a result of this experience, will Groom us to be better than we could have ever thought possible before now.”
Hobby Lobby owner David Green is telling store managers to stay open despite the pandemic because his wife had a vision from god.
He also warns they'll all have to "tighten their belts" soon. His net worth is $6.4 billion—hourly employees don't get paid sick leave. #COVIDIOT pic.twitter.com/4pEhivDbNy
— Towanda the Avenger (@kendallybrown) March 22, 2020
Hobby Lobby employs over 40,000 people across the country, the vast majority of whom are paid by the hour and do not get paid sick leave.
In his letter, Green said he “appreciate[s] every one of you,” but not enough, evidently, to take any meaningful precautions to protect them from getting sick and potentially dying.
Green concluded his letter by reassuring managers that the company is doing fine financially but that they’ll probably have to “tighten their belts” soon, which likely means cutting hours and/or laying off the very people who are currently risking their lives to sell cheap crafting supplies on Green’s behalf.
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These fcuking disgusting “Christian” smcumbags are beyond shameful and reprehensive.
ANYTHING to prevent economic losses the rest of the world are facing. Everyday we see examples of how these repugnant charltans are claiming God, Jesus, or the Holy Ghost will “protect” their followers, customers, or employees in order not to interrupt their cash flows.
God, it’s time for some serious smiting in the form of the most severe debilitating excruciatingly painful fatal cases of corona virus to these puddles of puke…
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FRE0
I’m glad that “Christian” was put into quotation marks as it should have been. It is inescapably clear that the principles of Hobby Lobby are not Christian.
fur_hunter
Religion = Control of People and their MONEY!!! F ucking MORONS! I hope they all get the virus and drop dead. And good riddance. Then, there will be no a ss holes to tell me I’m going to hell.
frapachino
Seek help before it’s too late you have done scary anger issues, I am no where near being a Christian and I don’t agree with much of that religion but I also don’t wish death on them!
Cam
@frapachino , whenever a right wing troll like you can’t defend against the actual comment it always falls back on name calling or claiming the poster is “Angry”.
Funny you claim you “Don’t agree with” many things in that religion, because you are constantly on here ALWAYS defending right wing Christian bigots who use their religion to attack us.
Seriously, get some smarter trolls in here. I’m actually offended that you and those others are they best they could find to send here.
Tempus
Ok, I come from a fairly religious area, grew up in a Christian family, consider myself a Christian, etc. yet I really dislike hearing people talk like this. I’ve heard a few people around me saying things like God will protect us or God says no plague will touch your house if you believe in him yet God gave people free will. My meaning is yes God may protect you but not if you act stupid. If you use your free will to go against common sense resulting in you getting sick then he may say that’s on you. This guy is “claiming” God gave his wife a message yet it seems clear to me he’s just justifying keeping his stores open so he’ll hopefully rake in some more cash.
fur_hunter
Religion = Control of People and their MONEY!
ShiningSex
if anyone thinks god will protect them, then I guess those who have died were not god fearing? LOL!!!!
oh religious people are fools.
Wolfwalk
Our county and the counties surrounding us have issued emergency protocols, which include closing all “non-essential” businesses and leaving home only for essential reasons, ie, doctor’s appts, grocery & pharmacy shopping, working at an essential business. All public gatherings of more than 10 are banned, including all weddings, funerals, wakes, etc. It will be interesting to see if any or all of our area Hobby Lobby stores remain open during this time. The counties which have issued these protocols include fines for failure to obey protocols. I honestly can’t see how buying a skein of yarn or a yard of fabric could be considered essential.
Brian
You’ve never heard of a glitter emergency?
dmhandy
Truth be told, I am sure they are more concerted about profits. Rich people have no problem sacrificing peoples lives to ensure they stay wealthy.
rodzilla
Yeah, OPL.
FRE0
And remember that Jesus said that it is easier for a rich man to pass through the eye of a needle than to enter into the kingdom of heaven. That may have been intended as hyperbole but surely, after observing the behaviors and attitudes of many rich persons, we can see that it has more than a grain of truth to it. The owners of Hobby Lobby should consider that.
rodzilla
How does a camel pass through the eye of a needle?
The “Eye of the Needle” or “Needle’s Eye” was a narrow gateway into Jerusalem. Since camels were heavily loaded with possessions, they would need to be un-loaded in order to pass through. The analogy is that a rich man would have to similarly unload his material possessions in order to enter heaven.
Bob
Unload material possessions ?? Ya, right.. That’s their STUFF. And they had to spend their whole lives cheating and stealing to get it. God’s just gonna have to change his rules. The rich are coming! :>
fur_hunter
Religion = Control of People and their MONEY!!! F ucking MORONS! I hope they all get the virus and drop dead. And good riddance. Then, there will be no a ss holes to tell me I’m going to hell.
ShiningSex
Hahaha!!! Most religious people are idiots!!!
God wants his money!!! LOL!!!
fur_hunter
Religion = Control of People and their MONEY!!!. That’s right.
Cam
And if they quit they don’t get unemployment. The CEO should be arrested for reckless endangerment.
fur_hunter
You are correct. They will NOT be able to collect unemployment. I hope the CEO and his Imbecilic wife get the virus and die an agonizing death. The MORONs. And the world will be rid of two imbecilic, ignorant idiots.
Harley
If they contract Coronavirus while on the job would that be a valid worker’s compensation claim?
Bob
I smell a lawsuit coming. If a worker gets Coronovirus and can prove that they were required to work when states had bans on working, I smell money!!!
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Absolutely correct, that is the end game to protect The Orange Turd’s huge corporations under the guise of “Christianity” and “religious freedom”…
Goforit
Green’s wife hearing the voice of God telling her that Hobby Lobby will be protected; Tony Spell saying that Jesus will protect his flock or he will heal them; Margret Court insisting that the blood of Jesus will save her “church” from covid-19; Jim Bakker selling fake medicine to cure coronavirus. Maybe this is just God’s way of reducing the number of fake “Christians”.
fur_hunter
I hope all these ignorant, intolerant and bigoted imbeciles drop dead and rid the planet of stupid MORONS!
rodzilla
Jim Bakker & I share the same hometown although I identify more with another from Muskegon MI, James Newell Osterberg Jr. (AKA Iggy Pop).
Topman60640
Fur_hunter, dude, STFU, we got it, you hate any people of faith, we got it the first 700 times you posted it.
Me thinks she doth protest too much…
jayceecook
It’s harsh but I have a very hard time feeling sorry for the people who still work there. After the whole abortion ruckus years ago it’s pretty apparent how the company feels about its servents, er, I mean employees. Like that chicken shitehole shack everybody knows that god (money) is more important to them than anything else.
Felecia
First the AIDS/HIV virus was blamed on us, now the Corona virus…how on earth did we not get the blame for tuberculosis, black plague, smallpox, polio, and scarlet fever, I ask….oh yeah; people are stupider now, lol.. including, apparently, Christian ‘billionaires’ who actually believe that their wives have God’s ear. I wouldn’t worry about his Hobby Lobby business if I were him…I’d be more concerned that The Missus never become unhappy, cuz God’s gonna tell her to dump him and take half of his wealth, lol….I can’t be angry at the dumb*ss Churchies anymore. They are desperate people who NEED something to believe in, and somebody to blame when it becomes obvious that ‘God’ has better things to do than give a sh*t about THEM, which flies directly in the face of everything their respective clergy has told them…some for all of their lives. Discovering that your deity is totally BS and has no problem with allowing you to die of COVID like you were never born or even mattered, can be shocking I would think. On a similar note; a very pious woman who spent her entire life with her nose in the bible and scriptures in her mouth for the sinners, died at age 92…happily convinced that her loyalty would have her ‘sitting at the hand of Jesus’….now here’s the fun part….102 years later, the house this woman died in is haunted; anyone bringing in a bible will find it snatched from their hand and pages ripped out. Crucifixes are torn from walls and off of chains around necks; I guess she’s REALLY pissed at the charade of her pious, wasted life, lol…this home is still in my family, and as long as nobody gets religious in it, it’s fine. Guess who inherited the place…yeah, the queer with no use for religion, lol….you can believe me or not, I have no reason to care either way…yet I’ve dealt with this spirit most of MY life, and her sad story has kept me from believing the crap the Churchies spew regularly. If anyone deserved to be in heaven, this woman did. She did everything the church told her; no marriage, no children, no job except serving her community through the church while taking care of a severely-handicapped brother. Jesus came first, always. What good did it do her…she’s a ghost, forgotten by all but her family, and no one has showed up to escort her ‘into the light’. Her heart is broken, and her mind angry. I’d LOVE to extend an invitation to the Pope for dinner at my place, lol….:)
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
If they fire any employee who refuses to work during a national/world wide pandemic they will be sued and won’t have a leg to stand on in court. I hope they all walk out or demand onsite testing if they are to continue working. The company is already placed itself in a lawsuit that can have grave consequences if just ONE employee tests positive.
Heywood Jablowme
“Mask-making projects are popping all over as crafters mobilize against coronavirus” – Boston Globe, 3/22/20
There are so few face masks available that people are making them at home! Holy s***.
So I hate to say it but maybe it’s not such a stretch to consider a hobby store, or at least a sewing or fabric store, “essential” in this crisis.
(Not as “essential” as liquor stores or marijuana stores, of course, and it seems most states agree with me!)
Kangol2
Sister’s right on this one–sue if these MFs fire you for refusing to work and avoid infecting yourself!
And then there’s Ron Paul saying this is all a big hoax, only to have his libertarian nutbag of a son Rand Paul, a trained medical doctor, be in with someone who has it and though he’s alerted he should self-quarantine, he proceeds to blithely cavort around Washington as if he’s never had any contact with a positive testee, only to come down with it himself, and possibly infected fellow US Senators, one of whom, Mitt Romney, says he’ll “pray” for Paul. (Romney did, to his credit, promptly go self-quarantine.) And these are not people without working brain cells!
jayceecook
Rand Paul tested positive and he is refusing to self quarantine. His medical degree should be revoked.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
“And these are not people without working brain cells!”
His father, Ron Paul, has never conceded he lost at this attempt to be the GOP nominee in 2008 to John McCain. They are a weird family.
Jon in Canada
Religion must be destroyed and wiped from human history. Only then can we, as a species, move beyond and evolve.
justgeo
Yeh just like the 800 Muslims spreading the disease after a retreat! Maybe the bitch should try the toilet seat door handle whatever challenge!
stagehand1
Seriously these are the same “Christians”who illegally bought and Smuggled religious artifacts into the US claiming they didn’t know they were authentic! Money is the only “god” they worship!
frapachino
If it was a message from Allah Graham would be shooting loads all over himself praising her wisdom!
Trekbike
I consider religion of any kind to be the most well planned Ponzi scheme ever thought up. It ask their followers to throw as much money as possible at their 501C3 organization with the promise of great reward. And not one follower has been able to come back and deny it. But, just as they take their last breath they realize is was a total lie.
Inspector 57
Yeah, God’s got everything under control.
Where’s the cure for cancer?
Why isn’t there peace in the middle-east?
Why is there global warming?
Why do Dr. Oz and “Doctor” Phil still have screen time?
“God” is a fictitious character. There is no good reason to let “Him” dictate how to run a business — or to dictate how we should live our lives.
djmcgamester
Thinning the heard? I mean, if that’s the goal then God told her exactly the truth. But if that IS the case he’s doing a terrible job because our population keeps growing no matter what.
rocknstan
How can this giant box not be a front for something sinister? How many ribbons and bows are needed in Amerikkka?
What employees–and, similarly, the Chick-Fil-A employees–could NOT know that they are working for “Christians”?
It appears that those who continue to work for Green are vying for martyrdom.
rocknstan
MONEY FOR GOD’S SAKE
batesmotel
That’s odd as I spoke with God as well too and He told me it’s best to self-isolate for a few weeks in the same way he had what’s his can do with that Ark. Noah. I don’t know who she’s talking to, but I’m a prayer warrior as well and she isn’t talking to God, I can tell you that much. I think it’s her bestie Bathsheba. This woman just wants to continue to collect money. She doesn’t care about the well-being of her staff.
strap2900
Easy enough, if you get sick, sue them for endangerment or attempted murder.
Topman60640
Oh dude, they’re WAY ahead of you, they’ve already covered their ass…
The whole expected “belt tightening” is code for “if you put up a stink now, don’t expect any hours in the future.”
And it’s all completely legit.
Now, if local laws are in places that close nonessential businesses, HL CANNOT keep their doors open.
The wise wage slave would alert the media, as well city council, and lower the boom on the bastards.
djmcgamester
Agreed. GameStop tried to claim they were essential. It didn’t fly with the police.
Matthewnow
God is not the problem! It’s people who use God for their own greed that ar the problem. Peace.
Topman60640
How much do you want to bet they’ll apply for bailout/stimulus money.
woodroad34
“…spoke to God and he told her he’s got everything under control.” How conveeeeeenient! We certainly hear what we want to hear; don’t we? Or it’s “quick, honey, say something so we can keep the store open”.
djmcgamester
Oh, well, if God said it then it must be true. Assuming you believe, God has been known to send plagues (which we are apparently responsible), destroy entire cities to get at a few people and drown the Earth. Can you really trust that guy?