What Every Christian Must Know About Covid-19 Mandates and Injections
Cool-Headed or Kool Aid?
Let’s start the new year off with a bang and discuss the hottest topic of conversation in the world: Covid-19 “vaccines.” Now, I know half of you will immediately roll your eyes and hit the X in the upper right of the screen because you’ve already made-up your mind that Covid-19 is an existential threat to the human race and you refuse to listen to reason. Cool. Whatev. Flip to CNN and drink that Kool Aid bro. But I hope the rest of you read this entire blog and learn something you didn’t know that will help you to an informed decision without employers, politics, or cable news influencing you. There is a lot to discuss, so let’s get after it.
Why Does Any of This Matter to Christians?
First and foremost, Christians have a duty to be informed. You cannot simply sit on your butt and refuse to think or talk about politics and religion. Remember, Christians are “in the world,” but not “of the world.” That means you are a citizen of heaven because of Jesus and are supposed to have an impact on this world for Jesus (John 17:6-18). Don’t be lazy. Have the knowledge and courage to discuss your faith and political stance with kindness and respect. As Peter says, “But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.” (1 Peter 3:15, NIV) And be ok with agreeing to disagree, agreeably.
The Bible also directs Christians to increase in knowledge (2 Peter 3:18) and to make life’s decisions based upon God’s Word (Proverbs 3:5-6). As such, our faith must inform every part of our life, including medical decisions. Regardless of what a liberal socialist governor, senile puppet president, or cable news network talking head says, we are to make decisions in light of what God says. He is the authority we listen to. My family and I absolutely will not receive any COVID-19 injections because Christians are to keep our bodies clean from experimental drugs and treat it as God’s Temple, and, most importantly, because we are to respect the sanctity of life. Furthermore, there are efficacy and civic reasons to refuse these injections that we will talk about later. But first, I want every Christian to be informed and understand very important issues related to these Covid “vaccines.” In obedience to 2 Peter 3:18, I have researched (and included citations from Scripture, The Constitution, and several other sources), and will explain why this vaccine mandate is ineffective and unnecessary, and how it violates both religious freedom and civic rights.
It Violates the Christian Faith
This is the biggest concern for Christ-followers that most Christians simply do not know. Covid injections violate the Christian faith. Yup, you read that right. Christians cannot receive the Covid injection in good conscience because it runs contrary to our beliefs. Let me explain. As Christian, we believe what God says in the Bible about life. God says that life begins at conception, “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.” (Psalm 39:13, NIV) “Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” (Psalm 39:16, NIV)“Before I formed you in the womb I knewyou, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5, NIV)Clearly God sees an unborn baby as a precious child that He created from the moment of conception, not simply as a lump of flesh. Because of that, you have no right to end that life. If you do, it’s nothing less than murder, according to God.
Abortion is simply an academic word for infanticide- the murder of infants. Covid “vaccines” (which are not vaccines at all according to the definition) are researched, developed, tested, manufactured, and produced using the cell lines of murdered unborn babies. And Christians can never condone, participate in, or benefit from murder. The fact is, you cannot be a Christian and believe that abortion is ok. Period.
Unfortunately, the bodies of preborn babies have been harvested for vaccine research, development, testing, production, and manufacturing for decades, dating back as far as the 1960s. There are multiple aborted fetal cell lines currently in use, and each one can be traced back to a preborn baby.[1] All vaccines currently available in the U.S., including every single vaccine for COVID-19, are derived from cell lines WI-38, MRC-5, HEK-293, PER C6, WI-26, VA4, and Walvax-2.[2] These cell lines are literally the remains of unborn children, killed in the womb- dismembered, decapitated, crushed, and chopped into little pieces, then stored in a freezer to be used as “medicine.”[3] Additionally, pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Johnson and Johnson actively use recently aborted fetal tissue, not only in the research and development of these vaccines, but also in the testing, manufacture, and production of them.[4] This is a great evil for Christians because, according to God (and modern science) a new life, composed of his/her own unique genetic code, begins at the moment of fertilization. The very first cellular division is neither the genetic code of the sperm or egg, but a brand-new unique genetic structure. This means that, biologically, this new life inside the womb is, in-fact, a separate new life who has his/her own human rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This is a baby, not simply a part of a woman’s body. Genetic testing confirms this as scientific fact and is irrefutable.
Children are recognized by God at the moment of conception (Genesis 4:1,17 Jeremiah 1:5), knit together in the womb, are blessings from God, and are cherished and loved by God. Murdering children and using their remains is condemned by God and as such, contrary to the Christian faith. Christians may never benefit, or take any part in, these evil practices in any way. If you are ok with abortion, make no mistake, God is not ok with you.
Trust in God
Christians must place our faith in God and trust Him unequivocally. Now, I am not going to spout-off about how Christians should rely exclusively on their faith for healing and reject life-saving medical treatments. That is stupid, ignorant, reckless, and irresponsible. God gave us the ability to study His creation and use medical science in order to protect life, and we should, in conjunction with our faith in God’s will. However, on issues where medical science has violated the sanctity of life in order to make advancements, Christians must draw the line and place their faith in God’s sovereignty and His will over medical science and man’s will. You cannot condone any evil practice in the name of science. You should be trusting God more than man and seeking His will, especially when you are scared.
The fact is, God is in control and He doesn’t want you to worry about things you cannot control (Matthew 6:26-34). “Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?” (Matthew 6:26-27, NIV) Jesus straight-up says, “These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of Godabove all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. So, don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.” (Matthew 6:32-34, NIV) So just take a breath, chill out, and trust God, even with Covid-19. You’ll be ok, seriously.
Secular Civic Perspective- Health, Necessity, and Efficacy
It Is What It Is
Let’s call it what it is and what it isn’t. It’s not a vaccine, and it’s not effective. It is, however, a vile of dead baby parts and experimental material that changes your DNA. The definition of a vaccination is, “an injection of a killed microbe in order to stimulate the immune system against the microbe, thereby preventing disease.”[5] Vaccinations, or immunizations, work by stimulating the immune system, the natural disease-fighting system of the body. The healthy immune system is able to recognize invading bacteria and viruses and produce substances (antibodies) to destroy or disable them.[6] The Covid-19 “vaccines” work differently. They are genetically engineered mRNA, which alters your own DNA, to make your body target a specific S protein on the cellular surface. This causes your body to create antibodies and develop T cells in the hopes that when (not if) you contract Covid, your body will have a defense. However, these injections offer significantly less protection than natural immunity and the mortality rate of contracting Covid-19 compared to the seasonal flu is significantly less, especially among children. Moreover, there is virtually no health risks in children attributed to Covid-19, but significant heart inflammation and other cardiac risks in healthy children and young men that receive the Covid injections. This leads me to believe the injections are unnecessary and dangerous for healthy people, especially the youth.
Furthermore, according to Oregon’s governor, Kate Brown (who is just one of several communist governors enforcing draconian measures and tyrannical edicts), the Oregon Health Authority and the Office of the Oregon Secretary of State, the premise of this vaccine mandate is the “alarming spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations being driven by the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant.”[7],[8] However, according to the same sources (OHA and OSS) the current vaccines are ineffective against the COVID-19 Delta and Omicron variants, thereby undermining the premise of the vaccine mandate.[9] If the COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective, they serves no practical purpose and fail the first of three components of the “Lemon Test” (used in court as a legal standard from Lemon v. Kurtzman): it must have a secular purpose.[10]
It’s Illegal to Make You Take It
As stated in the US Constitution, the First Amendment Establishment Clause, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”[11] This prohibits the advance, coercion, or endorsement a particular religion or religion over non-religion. The U.S. Supreme Court has exercised special vigilance over compliance with the Establishment Clause in cases regarding the test of a person’s “religious sincerity.” For example, in Edwards v. Aguillard, a case regarding schools, the U.S. Supreme Court stated, “families entrust public schools with the education of their children, but condition their trust on the understanding that the classroom will not purposely be used to advance religious views that may conflict with the private beliefs of the student and his or her family.”[12] Clearly, the court’s understanding of governmental authority stops at the point of infringement on individual rights and certainly does not include determining an individual’s “religious sincerity.”
In response to the infringement of an individual’s rights as prescribed in the First Amendment, courts have used different tests to determine whether a governmental entity has violated the Establishment Clause as a protection of one’s religious rights, not to prohibit them. As referenced above, the first test developed by the U.S. Supreme Court is referred to as the “Lemon Test,” derived from Lemon v. Kurtzman in 1971. The Lemon Test applies three factors: governmental action (1) must have a secular purpose, (2) must have a primary effect that neither advances nor inhibits religion, and (3) must not foster an excessive government entanglement with religion.[13] The COVID-19 injection mandates clearly violate all three criteria of the Lemon Test and is, therefore, illegal.
Civic Responsibility of Safety vs Individual Liberty
Now, it is true, that individuals have a responsibility for the good of public health. We should fully support that. However, public health concerns do not nullify individual freedoms. The rub is that one individual right to privacy, body autonomy, religious freedom, etc. cannot supersede the right of another individual(s) (as explained in Lemon v. Kurtzman). Proponents of these mandates refer to a case all the way back in 1905, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, where the individual was compelled to receive a smallpox vaccination. However, the country was facing a ravaging outbreak of smallpox, not the flu, sanitation was awful, and dysentery was the number one cause of death in the US. It is in that specific context that the Court made the ruling, almost 120 years ago, that enforcement of the smallpox vaccine was legal. The court held that mandatory vaccinations are neither arbitrary nor oppressive so long as they do not “go so far beyond what was reasonably required for the safety of the public.” Today, 117 years later, we have soap in every bathroom, toilets that flush in every home, and we haven’t seen smallpox in America since 1949. There is also the fact that the symptoms of Covid-19 infection are exactly the same as the seasonal flu. So, I ask you, are these mandates “reasonably required for the safety of the public”? No, no they are not.
Regarding Accommodations
Sincerely Held Religious Beliefs
Doctrinal disagreements aside, all Christians have sincerely held beliefs established by God in the Bible. Additionally, there remain those who have sincerely held religious beliefs, yet are unaware of individual actions that may violate the teachings and commands of their faith. Medications (like the COVID-19 “vaccine”) may (and in-fact, do) contain substances that are prohibited by the Christian faith without their knowledge. One may even be ignorant to some of the teachings of their faith and how receiving this injection violates God’s commands, but they may be a genuine and authentic Christian with sincerely held religious beliefs. The fact is, it is impossible for another person, much less a governing body, to know what is in another person’s heart. Only God knows the human heart (1 Kings 8:39, 1 Chronicles 28:9, 1 Samuel 16:7, Psalm 7:9, Psalm 19:14, Psalm 26:2, Psalm 38:9, Psalm 44:21, Psalm 139:2-23, Proverbs 15:26, Proverbs 21:2, Jeremiah 11:20, Jeremiah 20:12, Ezekiel 11:5, Matthew 9:4, Mark 2:8, Luke 5:22, Revelation 2:23).
The Americans with Disabilities Act and Title Vll of the Civil Rights Act grant exemptions from such draconian measures because of one’s disability, medical condition, or “sincerely held religious beliefs.”[14] Exemptions means just that, you are exempt from it. It simply does not apply to you. Nothing is said about exceptions or accommodations or about being extorted to obey a communist edict under threats of losing your job or banishment from interstate travel. No one has the right to force you to compromise your integrity and violate your faith or your freedoms. Period.
Problems with Exemptions
Now, on to the exemptions. The question of who qualifies for the medical exemption is problematic, at best, due to the various unknown medical conditions, allergies, and medication interactions one may have. Moreover, very little research has been done on these vaccines, as they have been expedited for production without extensive human trials, and all that are available in the U.S. are still under experimental trials.
Additionally, the language given for a religious exemption is, not only subjective to an individual or entity, but also ambiguous and vague. What constituted sincerity? Are there different levels? What authority does anyone in government have to discern who is and who is not sincere in their religious devotion? One’s devotion to their faith ebbs and flows throughout life and varies, sometimes to extreme degrees, based on life circumstances. For example, an individual who has shown no previous devotion to faith may, quite literally overnight, devote their life to God. The loss of a loved one or the birth of a child may suddenly impact an individual to such an extent that they reevaluate and realign life priorities. Their religious devotion may have changed overnight yet is non-the-less just as sincerely held. There is no test or court precedent that can be utilized in judging another person’s religious sincerity. Nor should there be. It’s none of their dam business. That’s between you and God.
Body Autonomy
My Body, God’s Choice
Beginning at the time for confession and repentance, God, in the Person of the Holy Spirit, resides in the heart and soul of a Christian. This means that the physical body of a believer in Jesus Christ is the dwelling place of God- His home. This also means Christians are to honor God with how we treat our bodies, making what we inject into our bodies especially significant. “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore, honor God with your bodies.” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20, NIV). God, not you, not me, and certainly not the government, dictates what He will or will not allow in His Temple.
Furthermore, since January of 1973, when Roe vs Wade was wrongly decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of providing a woman with the unqualified “right” to end the life of her unborn baby,[15] the justification for abortion has been, “my body, my choice.” I fail to see the distinction between a woman’s legal right to end a life and my legal right to protect my own. A woman can have her baby dismembered, decapitated, mutilated, and crushed into pieces while inside her womb, but she cannot refuse an experimental injection? That is absurd.
Christian Obligations
Obedience to Authority
I have heard the arguments for receiving the injection because of the biblical requirement for Christians to obey authorities. Yes, Christians are to obey the authorities that rule over us because they have been given this authority by God: “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.” (Romans 13:1, NIV)However, Christian obedience is conditional upon these authorities doing what is right. Furthermore, what is “right” and “wrong” is defined by God, not said authorities. People in positions of power have been placed in their respective positions for the expressed purpose of doing good for those they serve and are to punish wrongdoers. They are to be protectors, not oppressors, “For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.” (Romans 13:4, NIV)When Christians are instructed by the earthly authorities to engage in anything that violates God’s Word, Christians must obey God rather than man, regardless of consequence. “But Peter and John replied, ‘Which is right in God’s eyes: to listen to you, or to him? You be the judges! As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.’” (Acts 4:19-20, NIV)Don’t fear what the government can do to you for disobedience, fear what God can do to you for disobedience. As Jesus said, “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Matthew 10:28, NIV)
Individual Accountability
Finally, the consequences for our actions in sinning against God are inescapable. “God will repay each person according to what they have done,” (Romans 2:6, Psalm 62:12, NIV)and ignorance is no excuse, “If you say, ‘But we knew nothing about this,’ does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?” (Proverbs 24:12, NIV)We are all answerable to God for our decisions and I won’t answer for participating in the genocide of preborn babies. I hope you don’t have to.
Given the referenced material, scientific data, and Scripture provided, I hope that it is clear how compliance to these mandates suppress the Christian faith, violates our civil rights, is unsafe and ineffective, and is a great sin against God. Now, the only question is, do you have the balls to take a stand?
I leave you with a quote from Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms of 1521, where Martin Luther faced charges of heresy and insurrection, punishable by excommunication and death. Standing on trial before the Catholic church, Emperor Charles V, local government officials, and his peers and friends, Luther stated, “…my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise, God help me. Amen.”
God bless you. And as always, feel free to leave a message, reply, or email.
Steve
Bibliography
[1] “A Guide to Human Fetal Cell Lines from Aborted Children Used in Vaccine Development” Novielli, Carole. Live Action (www.liveaction.org), December 30, 2020, Accessed Aug 14, 2021.
[2] “What You Need to Know About the COVID-19 Vaccines” Newsroom. Live Action, December 24, 2020 (www.liveaction.org), Accessed Aug 14, 20021.
[3] Ibid.
[4] Ibid.
[5] Definition of Vaccination, Medical Definition of Vaccination, (rxlist.com). Stöppler, Melissa C. MD 3/29/2021. Accessed Jan 2, 2022.
[6] Ibid.
[7] “All State of Oregon Executive Branch Employees Required to be Fully Vaccinated” Brown, Kate. Press Release: Oregon Governor. GOV Governor.Brown@oregon.gov. Accessed 8 Aug, 2021.
[8] “Making Requirements for Indoor Spaces” Temporary Administrative Order PH-35-2021. CH 333. Fagan, Shemia, Secretary of State. 333-019-1025. Accessed 8 Aug, 2021.
[9] Ibid.
[10] Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971).
[11] Amendment I, Bill of Rights, Madison, James. September 25, 1789. Bill of Rights (1791). Bill of Rights Institute. Accessed 8 Aug, 2021.
[12] Edwards v. Aguillard, 482 U.S. 578, 584 (1987).
[13] Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971).
[14]Civil Rights Act of 1964, (Pub. L. 88-352) (Title VII), United States Code, vol 42. sec 2000e. Accessed Aug 14, 2021.
[15] Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973).