Dear Daniel, I’ve never implied the slaughter of men matters less. Only more. The slaughters of abortion, organ-harvesting, infanticide, euthanasia, and “contraceptives” are each as serious as death.
What I’ve worked to oppose during Covid is trivializing the Christian conscience along political lines whose center is merely resentiment. Nothing makes this more obvious than the full shift of attention from any of the above horrendous evils to government overreach through masks and vaccines.
Then, concerning vaccines, I’ve also tried to oppose those arguing as if opposing HEK 293 is “pro-life,” refusing to admit the difference between hiring someone to murder your child and using skin lotion, food, or a vaccine that had some connection to a cell line originating from a baby whom no one involved in the origin of that cell line has ever testified came from an elective abortion.
Many Christians are really angry today and lashing out at the closest authority using every means at their disposal. Among belligerators there is no slightest hint of honoring the king. No slightest hint. This is direct rebellion against God’s command. Trivializing the Christian conscience and Christian persecution and martyrdom as I believe is happening now leaves us and our children less prepared for the growing persecution that is truly a matter of God’s Word. I wonder if belligerators have read the story of the boy who cried “Wolf?” But of course, they would respond (as one just did to me on social media) that masks and vaccines are the equivalents of Ceasar’s command to Christians to deny Jesus’ lordship by repeating, “Ceasar is Lord.”
Right…
I’m not against Christians denying the serious threat of Covid. I’m not against Christians choosing between authorities and refusing vaccines. If it comes to it, I’m not against Christians going to jail and losing their job over masks and vaccines. I’m not against other Christians arguing in courts and online that people should not have to wear masks or get vaccinated. If Christians want to spend three years arguing stats and screaming at public authorities abt Covid, I say let them. Knock their socks off, but it’s not for me because it’s nowhere near the boundaries of when Christian conscience should submit to God rather than man.
In fact, we’ve already been way past that line, but it’s at a place where Christians aren’t wanting to belligerate, I’m guessing partly because it’s only words.
Thing is, words are what the early Christians died over. “Ceasar is Lord.” The Gospel is dependent upon preaching using words, and as belligerators harp against masks, I try to resurrect the Christian testimony concerning the sins Scripture says will bar us from the kingdom of God and social media shut that witness down and mask-belligerators shrug, saying among themselves, “See, he should be refusing to wear masks and get the vaccine. That’s were the real action is.”
Nobody watching the past year and a half can fail to see that Christians are more concerned about bodies than the words of God and religious freedom to speak and preach them, testifying through them to our most holy Faith.
Fetal cell lines clearly originating in elective abortions from decades ago are horrendous and we ought to protest this scientific participation in genocide. But our protest against the direct current killings of our church’s children through ECPs, IUDs, the Pill, and all the other forms of abortifacient birth control methods should be more constant and vociferous.
But of course, precious few men are preaching or writing or arguing over these murders so painfully clear and so bloody prevalent within our own families and churches. We’re too busy having hissy fits over masks and endlessly debating vaccine stats.
I’m confident some here reading this will acknowledge this is more than a tell in our circles today. Others will deny it, saying they themselves are both/and, but precious few of the belligerators can make that claim as evidenced by this post being now twelve years old and unprecedented among them. Love,