Our Problems Are Spiritual Rather Than Physical

On Christmas Eve 2021, we find ourselves at a crossroads: We will either succumb to totalitarianism or we will have to reassert our God given rights, liberties and freedom. Jennifer Jones explains the stakes in this fight at an article at the American Thinker entitled 'Pandemia' and the Psycology of Fear. Those desiring to impose a totalitarian regime on the American people have pounded the drums of fear using elite experts and the media. At least 15 minutes of a typical 30 minute local news broadcast is devoted to Covid, whether it is cases and hospitalizations or other Covid news. They do this to drive fear and induce people to demand the government "do something."

The 20th century was defined, in significant part, by despotic leaders implementing propaganda campaigns to vilify certain groups of people deemed dirty or diseased. The despots didn’t accomplish these campaigns at once but, instead, did so slowly, by conditioning one group of people to believe their ills were caused by another group of people, while conditioning that second group of people to accept increasing levels of human rights violations. Leaders and governments, often working with the healthcare community, carried out campaigns to divide nations and eradicate those deemed “unclean” for the country’s “welfare” and the “future good.”

Today, the same divisive, unrelenting propaganda tactics that past fascists and tyrants used are producing a divided world and prompting actions by some that border on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). What was once considered hypochondriac behavior—masking, social distancing, and repeated hand washing—has become normalized. It identifies the good citizen, even in the face of a waning, weakened virus, heavily mutated from its original strain and far less deadly.

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You are the ideal citizen if you avoid others, wear a cloth on your face, and take as many jabs as the government deems necessary. Every citizen’s freedom to make healthy choices has been replaced with a legal obligation to be healthy—an obligation that must be fulfilled at all costs, without considering the individual, and without liability for those pushing these “healthy measures” when they cause harm.

Please read and consider the entire article.

Meanwhile, as Jayanta Battacharya, one of the writers of the Great Barrington Declaration has noted We Can Not Stop the Spread of COVID, But We Can End the Pandemic.

I think though, both articles miss the point. Our problems are not really physical, although COVID does exist. Our problems are spiritual rather than physical. They are a result of our reliance on ourselves rather than on our Creator. We have forgotten God. Of course, God does indeed love us...so much that he is willing to let us go our own way if that is what we want. But when we go our own way, things seem to go wrong, whereas when we rely on God, things work out for the best.   It seems to me that the first thing we need to do is to stop being afraid.