This kind of fundamentalist Christian takes persecution seriously and it is stock and staple. Somebody has to be persecuting them in some way and they look for any opportunity to find it.
Framing is a powerful tool used by many wolves...I mean Pasterds to manipulate situations based on their own, neurotic and deeply ingrained paranoia which they then utilize as a means to fleece the flock in the name of Jeehovawitz.
So, he frames people as living like prisoners in their homes rather than making a Christian sacrifice of any socializing for the benefit of all, since we are all Brother's and Sisters in that respect and he who looks to save his own life shall lose it, so to speak.
This would be a perfect time to suggest that the poorishoners go into their closets to pray secretly and consider it a good oppotunity to do as Jesus said, rather than being a hypocriticial in the Mega-Mammon-Temples and pay-to-pray establishments where Pasterds need to make some dough for their "services". They are very trumpian in that respect.