Posted on 11/03/2021 12:44:15 PM PDT by rickmichaels
From the start, the pandemic has been responsible for spreading not only a virus, but polarization. Beyond the immense toll that COVID-19 has taken and continues to take on health and human life, the unnecessary social division that has accompanied the pandemic is a tragedy unto itself.
We are dismayed by the notable degree of skepticism and denialism about COVID-19. As Christians belonging to different theological traditions, we are especially discouraged that many of our fellow believers have adopted these attitudes.
Moreover, as followers of Christ working for non-sectarian organizations — a public university and a legal charity, respectively — we wish to set the record straight for the benefit of our non-Christian peers. Our message is simple: there is nothing inherently Christian about opposing the COVID-19 vaccines.
The Catholic Church , for its part, says there is no moral or ethical impediment to taking the vaccines, whether related to abortion or any other bioethical concern. Catholics in Canada have been invited by their bishops to be vaccinated since the start of the rollout. Leading Protestant ethicists have reached the same conclusion on the morality of the vaccines.
If the COVID-19 vaccines are ethically permissible, why do some Christians refuse to get inoculated? The leading reasons are well-known, and they are no different than those cited by non-Christians.
Some people have never accepted the gravity of the pandemic, or even its reality. So it’s no surprise that they would reject a vaccine that is, in their view, a solution in search of a problem.
Others doubt the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines. Among Christians who harbour these doubts, many fear the vaccines impair fertility. Despite the absence of credible evidence to substantiate this fear, it has acquired a firm grip on many individuals.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
(and trusting people that don’t believe in God to make decisions for us and our children)
Yep. And usually it’s the same people who are supporting the Days of Lot, too.
Luke 17:26-30
King James Version
26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2017%3A26-30&version=KJV
If I can ye shall get 50 sheep and 1 dog.
Maybe later! 🤪
Agreed. And what we cannot forget is that the same people who developed and pushed these “vaccines” on us were the same murderers who insisted on denying the efficacy and use of cheap, proven drug therapies. If we yield to and justify their demands, we are complicit with their evil intent that can only be described as satanic.
“Brian Bird is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia’s Allard School of Law. Kristopher Kinsinger is an Ontario lawyer and the national director of the Runnymede Society. The views expressed here are their own.”
So what makes them the arbiters of what Christians do, say, choose or think?
I think putting faith in God, and not man-made solutions by big pharma, is a more Christian approach. These authors are hacks and suckers, going out of their way to plant stumbling stones of division.
My refusal of the covid vax has nothing to do with my beliefs in God....
It has EVERYTHING to do with my distrust of of govt....paid lackeys and liars...big pharm...chinese communists...and my belief in science...
A vaccine that doesn’t produce IMMUNITY is NOT a vaccine....its a chemical cocktail placebo....
The latest reports of efficacy are around 78%...
For a virus with a 99% recovery rate...
If I’m forced to choose between an employer mandate,and my livelihood and prosperity as a tradesman...or even an outlaw...that’s an easy choice...
I fully understand black market economics and as miamoto musashi said “when you know the nature of a thing...you know what its capable of”...
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
H.L. Mencke
We gotta come up with a secret handshake or something...
“Who goes there”?
“Brandon”
The Catholic Church is wrong on this topic and many others. If you are a Catholic mail me and I will help u live your faith.
Sola scriptura (”by Scripture alone”)
Sola fide (”by faith alone”)
Sola gratia (”by grace alone”)
Solus Christus or Solo Christo (”Christ alone” or “through Christ alone”)
Soli Deo gloria (”glory to God alone”)
It really is that simple and requires no human element.
Pandemic ain’t real, they just planned it.
-Bryson Gray
Can we just stop calling these jabs vaccines? Vaccines prevent illness, these jabs don’t prevent illness, because they’re not vaccines.
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Well, I guess that is up to you. I personally have never called it a vaccine... because it is not. In my discussions with friends, family and others (including any of my past posts here at FR, I’ve only ever referred to it as an EGT and those who get a shot have been EGT’d.
Regarding your comment about what a ‘vaccine’ is, you can be more specific.....
The original definition of a vaccine says this….
An antigenic preparation of a typically inactivated or attenuated pathogenic agent such as a bacterium or virus (or one of its components or products) that is administered (as by injection) to stimulate the body’s immune response against a specific infectious disease.
And with advent of the EGT, the definition has added this as a ‘part b’ to the definition….
A preparation of genetic material (such as a strand of synthesized messenger RNA) that is used by the cells of the body to produce an antigenic substance (such as a fragment of virus spike protein).
Others here may have some issue with the above and can improve on the definition. As for me, I understand what a vaccine is by going back to the very first vaccine... it’s a fascinating story....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine Scroll down to ‘Early Vaccinations’ to the story of Dr. Edward Jenner and learn why the word ‘vaccine’ comes from the Latin word for ‘cow’....
What your numbers do not take into consideration is the absolute refusal to treat early covid with appropriate therapeutics. There would be far fewer deaths if doctors had been advised to use ivermectin or HCQ.
You can see what is not being much reported, while if it is then the lack of improvement versus a year ago is all blamed on the non-vaxxed and Delta:
Daily Trends in Number of New COVID-19 Hospital Admissions in the United States
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