White Christians Blamed for Prolongment of Pandemic
May 11, 2021
(WP) Last month, the New York Times ran a piece called "How White Evangelicals' Vaccine Refusal Could Prolong the Pandemic."
In the article, Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham provide several examples where persons of faith have decided not to take the COVID-19 injection for religious reasons.
Stephanie Nana, an evangelical Christian in Edmond, Oklahoma, refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine because she believed it contained “aborted cell tissue” the authors write.
The hotly-debated topic of whether COVID injections actually do contain aborted fetal cells is convoluted by double-speak from manufacturers of the so-called vaccine, as well as those who call themselves experts on the subject. Proponents and supporters of COVID injections further confuse matters by using phrases like 'some decades-old aborted cells were used in development," insinuating that they aren't included in the actual shots.
In various stages of vaccine development and manufacturing, some of the COVID-19 vaccines used cells originally isolated from fetal tissue (often referred to as fetal cells), some of which were originally derived from an aborted fetus. (North Dakota Health Department).
Regardless of whether the COVID injections used aborted fetal cells during development or include them in ongoing manufacturing, many people of faith understandably take exception with such a thing.
The authors of the Times article quote two more Christians in explaining why they do not intend to participate in the supposed vaccination trial.
Nathan French, who leads a nondenominational ministry in Tacoma, Washington, said he received a divine message that God was the ultimate healer and deliverer: “The vaccine is not the savior.”
Using such colorful language, the clearly biased writers make it sound as though French must be off in the head to believe he received a divine message from God. They don't come out and say that he's delusional, but the insinuation exists when you read between the lines. Statements such as his and the one mentioned below don't sound crazy at all to believers who put their trust in the Lord. But Dias and Graham know how such expressions of faith look to mainstream non-believers.
Lauri Armstrong, a Bible-believing nutritionist outside of Dallas, said she did not need the vaccine because God designed the body to heal itself, if given the right nutrients. More than that, she said, “It would be God’s will if I am here or if I am not here.”
The writers also mention a supposed "long-standing wariness of mainstream science [that is] fueled by broader cultural distrust of institutions and gravitation to online conspiracy theories," tying that in with religion to discredit Christians that object to getting the shot. The point Diaz and Graham are trying to make is that any reasoning used to decide against taking a COVID injection that is based on one's religion is "counterfactual," unscientific and basically no excuse not to fall in line for the good of everyone else.
Perhaps the most alarming claim made in the article is this:
"The sheer size of the [white Christian] community poses a major problem for the country’s ability to recover from a pandemic that has resulted in the deaths of half a million Americans. And evangelical ideas and instincts have a way of spreading, even internationally."
Propaganda has a way of spreading too.
Dias and Graham defend their callout of white evangelicals in citing a Pew Research study claiming "there are about 41 million white evangelical adults in the U.S. About 45% said in late February that they would not get vaccinated against COVID-19, making them among the least likely demographic groups to do so."
But according to the Pew Research Center, evangelical protestant Christians exists across a broad spectrum of races - not just among whites. It's unclear exactly which study the authors used to determine that white evangelicals are the biggest threat amongst all evangelicals. Did they bother to interview any black, Asian, or Latino evangelical Christians?
Toward the end of the article, Dias and Graham write that pastors need to speak up and tell their parishioners to get their vaccinations. While pastors do counsel members of their congregations about a variety of spiritual matters, they are not physicians. They simply are not qualified to determine whether taking an experimental injection is safe for someone.
One look at the CDC's VAERS database is enough to show most people the truth - these vaccines are NOT fully tested nor are they completely safe. What's more, the COVDI mRna shots aren't even vaccinations at all. They're gene therapy. Some have been classified as "medical devices" and have even been referred to as "operating systems."
The key takeaway from Dias and Graham's article is this: Christians will be the scapegoat for the diabolical individuals who continue to manipulate the masses with scare tactics, vaccine propaganda, mandates, lockdowns, and gross infringements of personal liberty. In the end, it won't be just white Christians either, although that will certainly help widen the racial divide becoming so prevalent in our society. Christians of all races and denominations will be blamed, and we will be persecuted.
And that is exactly what the Bible tells us will happen. So, who exactly is really in the know
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