Trust the Clergy? Not Me

At the bottom of this entry, I post the link to the article from which the quotes are drawn.

“I want to exhort pastors once again to try to use your credibility with your flock to put forward the public health measures that we know can work,” Collins said. Stetzer replied that I sometimes hear from ministers who don’t feel comfortable preaching about Covid vaccines, and I advise them, in those cases, to simply promote the jab through social media.

“I just tell them, when you get vaccinated, post a picture and say, ‘So thankful I was able to get vaccinated,’ People need to see that it is the reasonable view.”

For well over a hundred years now we have known that we cannot trust civil magistrates. I think it is time to admit now that we can no longer trust our clergy. Whether through sheer malevolence or well-intentioned but misguided stupidity we must begin yesterday to take the approach of verifying before trusting what comes out of the mouth of the clergy. We must become noble Bereans who examined the scriptures to see whether or not what they were being told by Apostles was true.

The article linked below gives some of the lies that are being told by clergy;

Once again, Rick Warren (Megachurch Pastor — Saddleback) and (Biologos founder and NIH Head) Francis Collins spent their interview jointly lamenting the unlovingness of Christians who question the efficacy of masks, specifically framing it as a matter of obedience to Jesus. “Wearing a mask is the great commandment: love your neighbor as yourself,” the best-selling author of “The Purpose-Driven Life” declared, before going on to specifically argue that religious leaders have an obligation to convince religious people to accept the government’s narratives about Covid.

God’s law defines the love of neighbor. One defining quality of love to a neighbor is the 9th Word to not bear false witness. As masks have been repeatedly demonstrated to have zero effect on virus particles

https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/masks-dont-work-covid-a-review-of-science-relevant-to-covide-19-social-policy

the wearing of a mask is a false witness to our neighbor potentially filling them with unnecessary fear and so wearing a mask is not loving our neighbor as ourselves.

Furthermore, wearing a mask is also a violation of the 6th commandment which in requiring that I do no harm to my neighbor also implies that I do all the good I can to my neighbor. If I am wearing a mask that has potentially harmful respiratory effects I am not loving my neighbor by setting a negative example for them to do the same. I am hurting my neighbor and so am not showing love to God or my neighbor.

In point of fact in the wearing of a mask as well as in the taking of the vaccine, one is demonstrating a marked disregard and hatred for one’s neighbor.

Finally, on this score getting the vaccine and wearing masks could even be argued as a lack of love for God as getting the vaccine and wearing a mask reveals that one has put another God (the Usurper state) before God. This is a violation of the first commandment. Putting any god before God is not only a lack of love for God but also necessarily a lack of love for neighbor. One cannot love their neighbor if they do not love God. Wearing masks and getting the vaccine are indicators of one’s lack of love for God.

One more section of the article is a hoot and should be given treatment here;

“Let me just say a word to the priests and pastors and rabbis and other faith leaders,” he said. “This is our job, to deal with these conspiracy issues and things like that…One of the responsibilities of faith leaders is to tell people to…trust the science. They’re not going to put out a vaccine that’s going to hurt people.”

Rev. Rick Warren

As it is my job, as pastor to deal with conspiracy theories let me note that Warren is dealing in conspiracies. He has embraced the conspiracy theory that no conspiracy theories exist.

Secondly, because science is science it can’t be trusted. Science is forever changing. Any science that is routinely contested by various well-heeled scientists is not a science to be blindly trusted. Warren is asking us not to embrace science but rather to embrace statist propaganda.

Here are a few well-heeled scientists who are screaming that the current narrative called “science” is horse-hockey;

https://rumble.com/vtbzsq-highlights-38-minutes-covid-19-a-second-opinion-january-24-2022.html

Thirdly, tell the folks who were part of the Tuskegee experiment that the state would never do anything that would hurt people. These lying ministers like Warren, Stetzer, Keller, Moore, etc. like false prophets in the Old Testament are just court jesters serving as lackeys for the state.

https://illinoisfamily.org/religious/how-the-federal-government-used-evangelical-leaders-to-spread-covid-propaganda-to-churches/?fbclid=IwAR0Bf0Um4b6kz7wkw8ZX-Czda9WWB_EhJGVgqcZ4nsptPDX2VhCizPmO4NE

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