Law enforcement officers push back against supporters of President Donald Trump attempting to enter the U.S. Capitol in Washington Jan. 6, 2020, during a protest against the certification of the 2020 presidential election. (CNS/Jim Urquhart, Reuters)
The fact that a mob of Trump supporters, deluded into thinking they could affect a coup d etat, stormed the U.S. Capitol and arrested the counting of Electoral College votes occasions a variety of emotions but no one repeat, no one has a right to be surprised. The president has been inciting violence in one way or another for weeks.
Today is two months to the day since the election was called for Joe Biden. For every day since, the president has repeated a series of nonsensical allegations about the election being stolen, about nonexistent voter fraud and about corrupt election officials. His bootlicking sycophants in the Amen corner of the Republican Party, Fox News and EWTN, have repeated the allegations day in
Top 10 Religion stories of 2020: Covid disrupts church, Highlands hosts mass testing
Updated Dec 31, 2020;
Posted Dec 31, 2020
Sampey Memorial Baptist Church in Ramer, Ala., started a campaign this summer promoting Jesus 2020. (Photo by Ashley Remkus/AL.com)
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Organized religion, like many other bulwarks of the nation’s cultural establishment, was shaken to its core and transformed in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic.
That was Alabama’s top religion story of the year. Here are our top 10 religion stories in 2020:
COVID-19 disrupts church, forces worship online
The pandemic emptied sanctuaries and discontinued public in-person gathering for worship in March, even shutting down Easter Sunday. Churches then switched to online video services and many kept that focus through the end of the year as a safety precaution. Others returned by mid-summer and early fall with scaled-back, socially distanced in-person worship services. It was something the nation hadn’t