"As reported by the Daily Wire,6 evangelical pastors, theologians and seminary heads across the U.S. followed the lead of Dr. Francis Collins, a self-proclaimed Christian and the former head of the National Institutes of Health, who “leveraged his relationships with church leaders like ‘The Purpose Driven Life’ author Rick Warren and apologist Tim Keller to convince Christians across the nation that submitting to lockdowns and mandates was a matter of obedience to God.”
Christianity Today theologian Russell Moore and Ed Stetzer, director of the Billy Graham Center — both personal friends of Collins — “argued that Christians had a responsibility to tamp down on ‘conspiracy theories’ like the notion that the virus leaked from a Wuhan lab or that masks were ineffective,” Daily Wire writes"
" A number of faith leaders, including evangelist Franklin Graham,20 Rev. Jane Willan21 and Canterbury Archbishop Justin Welby,22 have insisted that Jesus himself would get the jab, were he here today"
It’s a shame that anyone in this country is so ignorant and gullible as to believe government propaganda, but even more so evangelical Christians.
On one hand, its not surprising, as so many believers, like sheep, trust their pastors, but on the other hand, this group also comprises a major portion of the MAGA movement. Most of them are aware of the schemes against Trump, and should have recognized this as B.S.
It’s an undeniable truth that most Conservatives are Christian. And to further complicate the issue is the fact of Trump’s pushing the vaccine. I believe to this very day, he believes it was his greatest achievement.
If Christians believe in Jesus as God and the Saviour of Mankind, why do they balk at believing that he sent us vaccines and masks to save us from the virus? Taking the vaccine is like prayer: it will work, unless and until it doesn’t when Jesus discloses that he has other plans for you. Wearing a mask betokens faith - just like wearing a crucifix. The crucifix wards off the devil, the mask wards off the virus, garlic wards off vampires, tin-foil hats ward off aliens…
Thats true. Since Trump touted the vaccines at first, it’s likely that they would have accepted the idea more readily.
I don’t know if he still believes in the vaccines or not - he should know the facts about them by now.
Maybe he just doesn’t want to admit he was wrong.
I notice he hasn’t been bragging about the vaccines at his rallies so much. Rushing those things through without the usual safeguards may have seemed like a good idea at the time, but in the long run it turned out to be a very bad idea.
I don’t think he can believe that now, Cogito. He was proud of having urged the production of the vaccine, when he thought it would be a proper vaccine that would prevent the disease. But he must know better now after all that’s happened.
It’s hard to say. He may have been advised to stop harping on it by his team, or perhaps he now understands that the “vaccines” were, at best, a dud, and, at worst, a catastrophe.
Wonderfully said. Still, we must acknowledge that Christians of one sort or another were a significant factor in the Trump victory. Yet another example of how human nature’s complexity continues to bewilder me at times.
“Prayer enables people to believe they have some control over things that they don’t”
That is a great insight, very true. It explains why religion is still such a big thing for so many people.
In many ways it works as a sort of psychotherapy.
