Kourtney Kardashian claims coronavirus pandemic is punishment from God for ‘evil’

KOURTNEY Kardashian thinks the coronavirus pandemic is punishment from God for "evil".

The 40-year-old reality star shared a Bible passage about epidemics on Twitter with the words "pay attention children" scrawled on it in red marker.

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The passage reads: "Whenever I hold back the rain or send locusts to eat up the crops or send an epidemic on my people, if they pray to me and repent and turn away from the evil they have been doing, then I will hear them in heaven, forgive their sins, and make their land prosperous again."

The extract began to gain momentum online after billions of locusts started to swarm in Asia and South Africa.

The infestation began in January and is threatening livelihoods.

As the passage covers both pandemics and the infestation of locusts it has attracted attention from people comparing religious texts with what's happening now.

Kourtney's been advising her followers on how to handle the coronavirus crisis through her lifestyle website Poosh.

She shared a post from the site titled "What to do while you're social distancing".

Another article advises fans on how to make their next shopping trip "as speedy and efficient as possible".

It comes after she alerted sister Kim Kardashian to a psychic to appeared to predict coronavirus 12 years ago.

Kim, 39, was left stunned when Kourt shared an extract from Sylvia Browne's 2008 book End of Days.

Taking to her Twitter page, Kim shared the screengrab with her 64million followers writing: "Kourtney just sent this on our group chat."

In the grab, a section from a page in End of Days has been circled with a red pen, reading: "In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments.

"Almost more baffling than the illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrived, attack again ten years later, and then disappear completely."

Kim followed up her shock tweet with a retweet of a timeline of previous illnesses, with the message: "The truth is FEAR is killing you... Turn off the TV... And wash your hands :)"

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