Jesus is our flu shot.

An evangelical minister who advised President Donald Trump's campaign sparked an uproar Tuesday by suggesting that Christian faith makes people immune from the flu.

Texas minister Gloria Copeland, who sat on the Trump campaign’s evangelical executive advisory board, denied the country is in the midst of a severe flu outbreak in a Facebook video that went viral because, "Jesus himself is our flu shot. He redeemed us from the curse of the flu.”

"We have a duck season, a deer season, but we don’t have a flu season and don’t receive it when someone threatens you with ‘everybody is getting the flu,'" Copeland added. "We’ve already had our shot: He bore our sicknesses and carried our diseases. That’s what we stand on. And by his stripes we are healed."

Public health experts immediately panned the remarks while some other members of the evangelical board distanced themselves from the comments.

Posted: 02/06/2018 at 9:34PM

Jesus is our flu shot. -- Shenhoo 02/06/2018 9:34PM

Which gives them MORE time to shoot animals! Hallelujah! ** -- 111Balz 02/07/2018 08:16AM

I'd like to know her answer as to why Jesus hasn't ended the flu altogether -- CavMan1 02/07/2018 12:18AM

Well, the Jesus shot ONLY protects the Christians, so clearly it's the -- Late 80s Hokie 02/07/2018 10:23AM

I'd like to know why one can't praise Jesus, -- Shenhoo 02/07/2018 08:03AM

It's an interesting argument -- CavMan1 02/07/2018 5:35PM

She's inadvertently practicing Darwinism. :D ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/07/2018 12:09AM

Did she really suggest that faith makes people immune? -- RML Hoos 02/06/2018 10:49PM

The Hill has the story. I interpret it as -- Shenhoo 02/06/2018 10:59PM

Sounds like she is a Christian Scientist ** -- hoothat 02/06/2018 11:59PM

Satan is my motor. ** -- walkthecorner 02/06/2018 9:45PM

Jesus is our flu shot.

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