The Democrats can’t do it! Their premises are statist to the core.
The Republicans can’t do it! They are ‘go slow’ statists, but still statists.
The Libertarians can’t do it! Their basic premises are ‘scientific,’ and ‘science’ is calling for this.
Only Christians have a platform to stand on to denounce the power grab of politicians during the pandemic.
A long time ago, God told mankind what to do about pandemics – if a person has the illness, they must be quarantined until they are healed. Today’s politicians said they could do better – everyone must isolate themselves from others. But Christians were silent.
Reopening – an euphemism for allowing some privileges to the plebs – has now started. But politicians are claiming a controlling interest in churches and their activities. . Early on, Mayor Blasio said churches not following his edicts would be “permanently” closed; Germany went so far as to mandate no singing of hymns when congregations gather; many states will limit the number of attendees allowed in a service. This shouldn’t be a surprise since, as Gov. Cuomo put it, he, not God, saved the people from their ills and follies. Few raised an eyebrow, since we long ago ceded to the government the proposition that science and politics trumps God every time. But Christians are still silent.
Of course, politicians gave the church an out: shutting down human interaction was simply showing love. And Christians swallowed it – not noticing the ‘love’ was based on force (not the desire to further another’s wellbeing) and this ‘love’ hurt and damaged people on a wholesale scale. Christians didn’t bother to correct the misuse of their own theology.
In the Bible, quarantine is the separation of a contagious, verifiably ill person from society until he is well again. In Biblical terms, stripping non-ill people of their livelihood, of social interaction, of their ability to meet together to worship God is not called quarantine, it is called, as it truly is, oppression and tyranny.
God calls for justice in our interactions; justice is the epitome of love between people. Justice is treating others according to God’s laws, not a governor’s rantings.
“The context has collapsed. We don’t know what’s important and what’s not… nor what’s true… nor what’s good. And who can say? . . . In a nation of 250 million Christians, Caesar still has the highest approval rating.” Bill Bonner, (Bill Bonner’s Diary, 4/17/20)
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