I have no transcript from yesterday’s talk at the NACL Conference, but I wrote this up from my notes.
Why was I asked to come here and talk about “covid”? Isn’t the pandemic over? Can’t we move on already? Unfortunately, the pandemic is
not over. The pandemic is the explanation for every major problem. The pandemic knocked the world off its axis, and it is still spinning wonky.
Here’s the problem. Covid launched the three most important Biblically-based values historically constraining government into outer space: truth, transparency, and trust. In absentia, these fundamental core principles were all enslaved to a new master value:
science.
From the first, when
Christians originally invented science, it was never a
value system. Christians already
had a value system. Science was not a value system, it was a skeptical process for falsifying hypotheses.
Science was a thinking toolbox. It held a hammer of skepticism, a wrench of logic, and a screwdriver of reason. It was designed to help humans learn more about the natural laws governing our perceptible universe. You couldn’t
touch science. You couldn’t
see it. It’s not tangible. You can’t really put it in a toolbox, or a hot pocket, or anywhere else.
But like the Hulk, ’science’ evolved. It morphed, emerging after centuries from its intangible chrysalis of rational inquiry, revealed as something new, something tangible, something that had its own separate existence. It became Science with a capital ’S’. And Science was something to believe in, like Santa Clone or the Tooth Fauci.
Belief in capital-S Science required
faith, not reason. And faith is something that brooks no questions.
Faith and belief are binaries. They are litmus tests. Either you
believed in Science, or you didn’t—there was no middle ground. If you didn’t
believe in Science, put your
faith in Science, and
trust in Science, you clearly were
anti-Science.
You were, in fact, a
Science denier.
The ‘Science denier’ label was, of course, always a blood libel. It was intended to evoke the sulphuric odors of antisemitic
Holocaust denial. Ironically, shredding small-s science’s pragmatic roots, Science irrationally injected muddy
belief and
politics into the previously sterile corridors of rational philosophy.
It didn’t make sense. Calling people “anti-Science” always bore the same logical weight as calling atheists
anti-God, or calling UFO skeptics
anti-UFO.
(This irrational train would shortly pass through the rabbit hole tunnel and arrive at an Alice in Wonderland station where the gift shop sells books like
Anti-Racist Baby. But that’s a different discussion.)
Science’s zealous and devoted high priests were the billionaires, bureaucrats, and bioengineers. Science’s sacrament was the high-tech vaccine that, like baptism, must be unquestioningly
received by evangelistic believers in a public demonstration designed to prove their faith. Science’s original sin was
disbelief.
Many career scientists with impeccable credentials who asked the wrong questions were branded
anti-Scientific and ritualistically excommunicated from the ranks of true believers.
It’s easy to mistake the high priests of this new religion of Science as the architects and authors of the religion itself. Blaming the pandemic’s fervent administrators is natural, since they were the visible face of its worst excesses. But this comfortable conclusion overlooks the vast community of maniacal adherents.
Politics, they say, is downstream from culture.
Observe the global nature of the pandemic response. The new religion of Science took the world in its iron grip, and over a few
days, every single world government signed a legal loyalty oath requiring them all to respond in exactly the same way.
But universal agreement is not human. Humans never easily agree on
anything. They
never all agree, even when people are all aligned and same-minded. Anyone who’s ever volunteered on the homeowner’s association board knows exactly what I mean.
How then did the entire world fall into line in a few days (apart from short-lived exceptions that more fully prove the rule)? How did they achieve universal agreement to supplant the long-standing, inarguable goods of truth, transparency, and trust with a brand new lodestar, a new universal faith offering redemption to the human race — Science?
It’s equisitely tempting, comforting even, to blame the high priests of the pandemic — the billionaires, bureaucrats, and bioengineers — global agreement has never before been achieved, regardless of money or military power.
We must look for a non-human cause.
In early 2021, I published my most widely read post, which immediately went viral, got me canceled, and got C&C purged from every single publishing platform on the same day. It was a letter to the Church, addressed to pastors. I advised spiritual shepherds to
stop falsely telling their flocks that the vaccines stopped transmission, and most of all, to stop preaching that taking the jabs was a
moral imperative.
I explained the World had been possessed by a demonic Spirit of Fear, manifested in a substitute religion of Science with its own rituals, sacraments, and high priests. (
Biblical rabbit hole: compare Zechariah 1:7-11 and 6 with Revelation 5:6 and 6:1-7, and discuss.) This diabolical Spirit of Science displaced everything in its satanic swath of destruction, casting churches into the
non-essential abyss, instantly rendering them useless artifacts of the old order.
It was not coincidental that in the United States, the only
lawful protection from the legalistic sacrament of mandates was a
religious exemption.
The good news today is that, after recovering its footing after the shock of the initial onslaught, the rational world fought back. Now we are at war. Because it involves Spirits and not reason, it is a
spiritual war.
And a
spiritual war requires a
spiritual defense.
Every inexplicable post-pandemic development in the world, like all the wars — both real military wars and insane cultural wars — plus the rumors of wars, and downstream global effects like worldwide inflation, are merely by-products of this spiritual war.
If that is true, how then should Christian legislators respond? The legislative response is to restore to government the essential Biblical principles of truth, transparency, and trust. The legislative branch must overthrow the false Religion of Science, along with all its unholy sacraments and performative legalism. Don’t fall into the slough of despond. Focus on those three
positive values.
It’s unnecessary to grapple with Science’s made-up sins of misinformation, conspiracy theory, or its pseudo-scientific forced orthodoxy.
Government should
always be truthful and should never lie. Government should always be transparent — sunlight being the best disinfectant — and should never act in secret. And government should always act in ways that cause citizens to trust it
more, and never act in ways that destroy the essential trust required by democratic systems based on the notion that citizens govern themselves.
These arguments are uncontroversial and inarguable. Cling to them. Truth, transparency, and trust are
universally recognized values. They aren’t the exclusive jurisdiction of Christians. They are fundamental, inarguable principles preserving freedom, individual rights, and human flourishing.
It is time to restore truth, transparency, and trust to government. It is time to reject the false premise that Science can somehow redeem humanity’s sins. It is time to focus legislative efforts on restoring real values, to force government to live up to its own standards, and to expose the false promises of pseudo-scientific deception, however painful or embarrassing that might ultimately be.
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