Posted on 06/06/2023 5:51:49 AM PDT by week 71
It’s common now to speak of the before times in contrast to the after times. The turning point was of course March 16, 2020, the day of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve, though authoritarian trends predate that. Rights were suddenly broadly throttled, even religious rights. We were told to conduct every aspect of our lives in accordance with the priorities of the bio-medical security state.
Very few people anticipated such a shocking development. It was the onset of a new state-conducted war and the enemy was something we could not see and hence could be anywhere. No one has ever doubted the omnipresence of potentially dangerous pathogens but now we were being told that life itself depended entirely on avoidance of them and the only guide going forward would be public-health authorities.
Everything changed. Nothing is the same.
(Excerpt) Read more at brownstone.org ...
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My wife actually got yelled at and lectured for not having her mask already on when she got out of her car in the parking lot. Final straw was when the pastor urged the entire congregatation to get fully vaxxed and boosted.
People had enough, including my wife, and stopped going altogether. Eventually, the church had to close down and today there is a "for lease" sign on the building.
Then take this out of breaking news and put it in blogs, where it belongs
I ALWAYS say, “Before the lockdown.”
The left are trying to destroy our most precious aspect of being a us citizen... our sovereignty. They want us governed by a world entity. They view sovereignty as a threat to their power and control, and are now apparently ready to become militant to take control over us-
The WEF is advocating truly tyranical measures-
humblegunner, is that you?
Yes it seems we got purged.
Our church is 1/3 of what it was but still continues. Leaders have largely repented of shutting down the assembly but great damage was done.
The big picture, in my opinion, is that this was the Deep
State taking Trump out. Nothing else had worked and he was sailing to re-election on a booming economy. Deep State won. And it has one more victory: the complete corruption of our electoral process, ensuring that no person will ever again ascend to public office without the total approval of the Deep State.
May I ask: what denomination, and where?
Yes in our case most of the regular members were contorting themselves trying to get the elders to allow us to meet for worship and it was our leaders who were largely resistant.
Apologize - not sure how this ended up in ‘Breaking News’. That was not my intention. Just a well-written article. cheers FRiend.
PCA - a noble demonination. Yet drenched in human failures as all.
It would appear humblegunner is on vacation, so I am kinda filling in for him...
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My parent’s church closed, got sold, and guess who bought it? of course. The preacher moved out of state and no longer wants to preach. My parents had stopped going during covid but found out through friends that the preacher was not requiring masks thus leaving older people vulnerable. They have been churchgoers all their lives but since covid have no desire, just watching televangelists. Since then they have mentally and physically gone downhill.
Yeah, NAPARC affiliated churches. Presbyterian, Reformed,
Conservative. Our history is better than that. So disappointing. Some did stand though. Just not very many.
“This is where property is nominally private and concentrated in only top industries in major sectors but publicly controlled with an eye to political priorities. This is not traditional socialism and it certainly isn’t competitive capitalism. “
It’s fascism.
- Our history is better than that. So disappointing.-
I am in complete agreement
The people realized quickly that they were on their own and purchased firearms in record numbers. While a large number exposed themselves as Branch Covidians, a large number of people succumbed to extortion to get the Jim Jones Jab, quite a few cheated past the requirements, and a large number of people refused, telling their bureaucrats and employers to pound sand. A large number of people simply retired out, saying "screw you" to their korporate or government employer.
The people saw through the ruse and recognized that this was nothing more than the Deep State trying to stop Donald Trump and MAGA Americans.
The Deep State is dependent on stealing money from taxpayers to fund their schemes. They know if they lose that control, they've lost it all, hence the push for digital currency. These are not "powerful, wealthy entities" controlling things, it's a bunch of thieves dependent on their victims to pay. Break that link and the Deep State collapses.
The Deep State took their masks off, threw them on the ground, and stomped on them. They now can't put their masks back on.
There are entire industries that will not recover from their Pfascist diktats. The military, nursing, and aviation are just a few that are facing unbelievable hurdles trying to hire people. Entire colleges and universities are likely to close their doors forever. The trust, quite healthily, is gone.
My parents had stopped going during covid but found out through friends that the preacher was not requiring masks thus leaving older people vulnerable.
How said that FRAUDci/CDC, etc., had these older folks so scared....and, convinced that the d@m masks would protect them (LIE!), and, stopped so many of them from socializing, experiencing LIFE.
Have your parents stopped worrying about masks?
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