seekeroftruth
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Just thought someone might want to see this....
Just for comment....
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Just thought someone might want to see this....
Hence my internal struggle. Based in this, there's likely always someone vulnerable around. It would be easy to justify that we always wear masks whenever we are in public.
I don't have an irrational fear of Covid. But then this is not about "me." I am also expected to be respectful of the fears of my "brothers and sisters."
OccamsRazor
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Anyone know which page in the Bible I need to flip to in order to read about how Jesus side-stepped the lepers and told them to stay away from the healthy people?
Mysophobians: 6:2
The vaçcine is only to protect yourself, it doesn't protect others. I have worn a mask when it truly was to somewhat protect another who was medically compromised (and home bound), even before covid, when there were still other more serious illnesses to protect people from. I don't think a mask in a grocery store to make others feel safer is good. That's giving a false sense of security.
OccamsRazor
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Haha. I asked because I heard rumor that the Pope is now requiring vaccine passports to enter the Vatican.
That is a REALLY slippery slope.
Would Jesus Wear A Mask?
“The Bible says ‘Love your neighbor as yourself,” Warren said in March in a video that recently gained widespread attention on social media. “The most practical way right now you can love your neighbor as yourself, wear a mask. Okay? And to not wear one basically says, ‘I don’t care about you,’ or ‘I don’t even care about your fears.’”1
So, according to Warren and others with that mindset, one must “wear a mask” in order to properly love our neighbor. Nevermind that there is a preponderance of perfectly valid scientific and data-based evidence that masking DOES NOT WORK to stop the spread of Covid-19 or any other highly contagious respiratory virus, you should just wear one anyway so your ‘neighbor’ knows you care about them. Nevermind that universal masking creates a false sense of security that everyone is ‘safe’ from contracting or spreading Covid and that this false sense of security quite likely made a lot of people unnecessarily sick over the past year and a half, the feelz dictates we mask up because our ‘neighbor’ might be a media-induced hypochondriac deceived into thinking that masks work and the risk of Covid is much higher than it actually is.
Obviously, you can see where this is going. It’s what happens when someone with influence over others interprets and applies a Biblical passage or concept unilaterally to a highly charged modern political issue while ignoring all nuance and dismissing other ways of interpretation. Sadly, such tactics have always been part of the toolboxes of religious demagogues hellbent on imposing ‘their way or the highway’ on their followers.
In truth, Jesus commanded us to love the Lord first with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, then to love our neighbors as ourselves. How then are we to love the Lord with our minds if we dismiss data and evidence on a topic that goes against our presuppositions or a prevailing narrative? How are we to ‘love’ our neighbors while at the same time bearing false witness to them? Is our duty to make them “feel better” or to tell them the truth? What would Jesus have done? In an age where masking has become a talisman, even an idol of sorts to people desperate to find something, anything that ‘controls’ something that is ultimately proving to be uncontrollable, would the Son of God have given people comfort by lying to them or by telling them the truth?
No, I don’t believe Jesus Christ would have put on a mask any more than I think he would have pretended a blood sacrifice to a graven image would have brought rain during a time of drought. And when at all possible, you shouldn’t either.
“The Bible says ‘Love your neighbor as yourself,” Warren said in March in a video that recently gained widespread attention on social media. “The most practical way right now you can love your neighbor as yourself, wear a mask. Okay? And to not wear one basically says, ‘I don’t care about you,’ or ‘I don’t even care about your fears.’”1
So, according to Warren and others with that mindset, one must “wear a mask” in order to properly love our neighbor. Nevermind that there is a preponderance of perfectly valid scientific and data-based evidence that masking DOES NOT WORK to stop the spread of Covid-19 or any other highly contagious respiratory virus, you should just wear one anyway so your ‘neighbor’ knows you care about them. Nevermind that universal masking creates a false sense of security that everyone is ‘safe’ from contracting or spreading Covid and that this false sense of security quite likely made a lot of people unnecessarily sick over the past year and a half, the feelz dictates we mask up because our ‘neighbor’ might be a media-induced hypochondriac deceived into thinking that masks work and the risk of Covid is much higher than it actually is.
Obviously, you can see where this is going. It’s what happens when someone with influence over others interprets and applies a Biblical passage or concept unilaterally to a highly charged modern political issue while ignoring all nuance and dismissing other ways of interpretation. Sadly, such tactics have always been part of the toolboxes of religious demagogues hellbent on imposing ‘their way or the highway’ on their followers.
In truth, Jesus commanded us to love the Lord first with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, then to love our neighbors as ourselves. How then are we to love the Lord with our minds if we dismiss data and evidence on a topic that goes against our presuppositions or a prevailing narrative? How are we to ‘love’ our neighbors while at the same time bearing false witness to them? Is our duty to make them “feel better” or to tell them the truth? What would Jesus have done? In an age where masking has become a talisman, even an idol of sorts to people desperate to find something, anything that ‘controls’ something that is ultimately proving to be uncontrollable, would the Son of God have given people comfort by lying to them or by telling them the truth?
No, I don’t believe Jesus Christ would have put on a mask any more than I think he would have pretended a blood sacrifice to a graven image would have brought rain during a time of drought. And when at all possible, you shouldn’t either.
Oh yeah? Well I heard that God is requiring vaccine passports to enter Heaven.
gemma_rae
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I just spoke with her and she didn't mention anything to me about it.
Probably.
18 But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me?
19 Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius,
20 and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
21 “Caesar’s,” they replied. Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
~Matthew 22:18-21
Jesus had his eye on the bigger picture. Politics was beneath him.
But let me tell you what Jesus wouldn't do, and that's persecute non-believers. He left that stuff up to God, which is what I suggest the vax-and-mask cult do.
Just talked about shoes, huh?I just spoke with her and she didn't mention anything to me about it.
gemma_rae
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She said she didn't need any, the clouds were pretty soft and had plenty of arch support.
seekeroftruth
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When the plagues happened in Egypt.... God had people paint in blood across the door jam. When the Angel of Death passed, the Angel skipped over the people who had the blood painted on the door. Now there's a mask for ya..... right?
I live in a neighborhood that is riddled with people of the other political party. I have a neighbor who swears she had COVID back in early 2020 and it only lasted a day and gave here a little tickle in the back of her throat. The woman who works in the rental office near me.... has been out of work recently for a week. She wears a mask now.... and she's had her shots. She claims she got it from her dog and her boss is making her wear a mask because he can't afford to have her out of work any more.
I don't know.... but seems like killing a lamb and painting the door of my home might draw a little attention. A mask seems so much less intrusive.... lol.
I live in a neighborhood that is riddled with people of the other political party. I have a neighbor who swears she had COVID back in early 2020 and it only lasted a day and gave here a little tickle in the back of her throat. The woman who works in the rental office near me.... has been out of work recently for a week. She wears a mask now.... and she's had her shots. She claims she got it from her dog and her boss is making her wear a mask because he can't afford to have her out of work any more.
I don't know.... but seems like killing a lamb and painting the door of my home might draw a little attention. A mask seems so much less intrusive.... lol.
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I have been wearing a mask as recommended.
3 weeks ago I spent a little over 10 hours in the St. Marys Hospital ER.
COVID and bacterial infection tests were negative.
Doc said likely some other virus.
From what I've read, hit me worse than many who do get COVID.
3 weeks ago I spent a little over 10 hours in the St. Marys Hospital ER.
COVID and bacterial infection tests were negative.
Doc said likely some other virus.
From what I've read, hit me worse than many who do get COVID.
black dog
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I just spoke with her and she didn't mention anything to me about it.
So Jesus himself, is now identifying as a woman.....