Not parody or even The Onion: For Christians, Dying From COVID (Or Anything Else) Is A Good Thing

[Nevilledog]

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https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/18/for-christians-dying-from-covid-or-anything-else-is-a-good-thing/#.YXGudKeVA-4.twitter


Blaming people for contracting a catchy virus has been one of many widely deployed COVID manipulation tactics. That has shifted into blaming people for dying of a catchy virus after they decided their risks from taking the vaccines outweighed their risks from catching the disease.

Shaming people for dying by accident is a bit twisted, but it might make sense if you believe life is over once a person stops breathing, and so cling to the illusion of human control over death to avoid the terror of acknowledging that’s impossible. It’s such pagan assumptions driving the ridiculous number of news articles with fear-porn titles like these: “Kansas City area official who died from COVID was unvaccinated, ‘felt he was immune’”; “Unvaccinated husband and wife die of COVID-19 leaving 5 children behind“; “Unvaccinated Father Inspired Other Family Members to Get Shot Before Dying From COVID“; “Bride Planning Funeral Instead of Wedding After Unvaccinated Groom Dies From COVID.”

Christian teaching diametrically opposes the underlying theology pushed in such articles and in many other popular COVID narratives. That’s true despite the appearance generated by the majority of Western churches prioritizing obedience to men instead of to God by shutting themselves down over COVID-19. Doing so contradicts numerous clear commands of scripture.

It’s a mark of the weakness of the Western church that more church leaders have not proclaimed this to the world by now. They’ve left standing for basics of the faith to the far too few strong pastors such as John MacArthur and Mark Dever. Let’s go through a few of these clear biblical teachings that even this theologically basic laywoman knows thanks to parents who read the Bible to her growing up and excellent pastoral instruction since then.

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[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. I think this is brilliant and fully support the thesis' display of inexorable logic (nt)

[ismnotwasm]

2. This is like those no modern medicine churches

If you get sick, from anything, you either live or die. Pretty weird

[NurseJackie]

4. I think that's why Georgia Engel died...

... and why Jean Harlow died.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. and she entirely ignores the whole, thou shalt not test God thing...

Satan takes Jesus to the top of the temple and says jump. Jesus, naw that would be testing God.

Gravity and viruses are both part of the God's creation. If Jesus, the son of God, would not jump, it is a bit arrogant on the part of the mere mortals to ignore medical treatments to prevent getting sick or dying.

Seems the fundamentalist right just became snakehandlers and christian scientists in a matter of weeks.

[lagomorph777]

5. What a load of Federalist Christocrap.

[msongs]

6. better to be dead cuz then you go to heaven (sorry, non xtians not allowed in heaven) nt

[Xolodno]

7. Like the old joke goes, a person on a rooftop during a flood.

A boat and helicopter come by to save him. Refuses and said God will save him. Eventually drowns and in heaven he asks why he wasn't saved. God responds "I sent a boat and a helicopter, what happened?"

[Celerity]

8. Death cult. It will destroy the nation, perhaps the world, if gets even semi-permanent

control. They yearn for death, and whilst waiting for the reaper, they lust for the power to hurt, destroy, torture, rape, control, enslave, and rule via a boot stamping on the collective human face forever.

The death cult cannot be reformed, it cannot be reasoned with. It can not be, long term, contained and mitigated, as that assumes it can be reformed and reasoned with. It can only be crushed to powder, consigned to the ash heap of history, or else it will prevail.

I personally think that the structural dynamics of the US are not set up to destroy it, at least not without the horrid costs and risks of a kinetic civil war, an endeavour whose outcomes are far from certain.

Sometimes a bad seed germinates in such a time and such an environment so as to give it a manifest destiny of sorrow, despair, unspeakable pain, and eventually the very death and destruction of the system that allowed it to materialise in the first place.

I fear that many people my age and younger are now in the throes of processes that will quite possibly cheat them out of full lives, less than full in both duration and quality, at least the ones trapped in the land of the death cult.

The clock is running..........

[LuckyCharms]

10. I tend to agree with this.

And I use my extended family as a personal example.

This dynamic is one of the many reasons we barely speak to each other.

[Celerity]

14. Social media and the resultant hive mind gave the Death Cult wings, wings to a level never seen

before in 2.5 million years of human/hominid history.

It allows systemic controllers to almost instantaneously imprint new concepts, of their making, onto previous concepts decades, centuries, even thousands of years in the making. These concepts then synergistically metastasise into an every deeper form of reflexive control.

[Hekate]

9. She lost me at "pagan assumptions." She may think of herself as "a theologically basic laywoman"

… but she’s quite ignorant and not a little smug.

[Crunchy Frog]

18. She seems to be associated with Hillsdale.

Everything that comes from there is completely batshit.

[TxGuitar]

20. And her qualifications for commenting

Are that her parents read her the bible and she went to church. So a real expert.

[Vinca]

11. Which begs the question, why don't they off themselves and get it over with?

[Initech]

12. It is literally a death cult!

[Crunchy Frog]

13. Well if that's the case, then they don't need to go to the hospital for any reason.

and certainly not clog up the hospitals with preventable Covid cases. Since according to the article, there's nothing you can do to avoid death on God's timetable anyway. They should leave the hospitals to us heathens.

My real takeaway from this article is that the fascists really, REALLY want people to die from Covid.

[Girard442]

15. This is some Jim-Jones-level shit!

[LiberalFighter]

16. The sooner the better?

[BeckyDem]

17. That is a cult.

[Solly Mack]

19. That was a whole lot of stupid.