By Dr Elizabeth Evans
November 15, 2024
The acquiescence of the Church to the fear narrative and inhumane measures is hard to forgive. As Christians, we are meant to use spiritual discernment and Scripture to avoid being deceived into following ungodly secular ideologies or the worship of false idols. Where was the testing of the spirit behind the policies, which were manifestly not good, acceptable or pleasing? Or the much-needed godly wisdom to call out human folly and hubris and prevent the catastrophic harm that resulted from humans playing God?
The failure of Church leaders to call out the terrible cruelty of the covid measures – people left to die alone and uncomforted, children forced to wear masks for hours a day in schools, young people denied social interaction with their friends, anti-social distancing preventing human contact, the elderly locked away in care homes and separated from their families for months – showed a lack of wisdom and discernment to identify evil. The failure of the Church to push back on the mandating of masks (a powerful symbol of fear and oppression that has no place in a church), anti-social distancing and banning of singing in church was shocking. The Bible tells us to judge a tree by its fruits, and the fruits of so many covid policies were isolation, cruelty, pain and suffering. They were dehumanising and a war on all things good and godly, things that make life worth living. A war on joy, love and life. Yet the Church remained silent in the face of this blatant evil.
Then we came to the covid vaccine rollout, in which there were egregious violations of the most fundamental principles of medical ethics, which uphold the equal value and dignity of every person and the right freely to decide what happens to their own body.
The failure of the authorities to implement the precautionary principle was staggering, setting out to vaccinate every person in the country as quickly as possible with a product using a novel gene-based technology, with no medium- or long-term safety data, and regardless of their individual risk/benefit profile. Never before has a vaccine in clinical trials been administered to children and pregnant women on such a mass scale.With NO data to rule out harmful medium- and long-term effects, it was obvious (to anyone who was paying attention) that the regulators were authorising blind.
It is arguable that no one gave valid informed consent to vaccination as coercion, fear and lies were used by the authorities to pressure and shame people into acting against their best interests. Many took the jab under false pretences, told it would protect others, which was a lie. Many were forced to take a vaccine to keep their job, which is the most extreme form of coercion.
Yet, instead of advising caution at the blatant recklessness of the rollout or concern about the use of fear and coercion, the Church embraced the ‘Vaccine as Saviour’ narrative peddled by the media, public health and politicians. There was a complete lack of scrutiny of, or comment on, the vaccine ingredients, such as the use of aborted foetal cells in development or the genetic manipulation of the Frankenstein technology itself, which works by hijacking our genetic code or ‘God code’.
After months of being closed to worship, and while restrictive covid measures were still mandated in church, the churches re-opened as vaccine centres. Durham Cathedral even introduced covid passports for entry to their Christmas 2021 services, which was beyond belief. Denying people entry to church to worship God and hear the Gospel by making it contingent on health status and the acceptance of a test or vaccine was an abomination.