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As a Christian, nothing makes me more frustrated than having long time Christian friends fall for the covid narrative. As a Christian, we should be leading the charge on insisting on truth telling. One of the reasons I refused to wear a mask is because I knew the insistence on its effectiveness was a lie. Yet many of my friends shrugged their shoulders and said we needed to "obey" out of "love." That attitude is not love, it's cowardice. Real love is telling the truth even when it hurts someone's feelings or it's unpopular. It's been a struggle to see so many cave to whatever the government or pastor tells them to do when those directives are completely lacking in Biblical truth. Truth telling can be messy and difficult, but why would anyone want to be lied to or participate in a lie? Do what is right, even if you're the only one doing it.

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Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

Thank you for graciously calling for unity, Jeff, and I 100% agree!

I covered these terrorize-distract-and-divide tactics in my first post:

• “A Primer for the Propagandized: Fear Is the Mind-Killer” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/a-primer-for-the-propagandized)

In that piece, I describe the recipe for controlling the populace:

“Whip up a witches’ brew of anger, envy, and, most importantly, fear, escalating emotions to a boil so as to short-circuit our faculties of reason and logic.

“Isolate us from one another, supplant real-world interactions with virtual feuds, label nonconformists as a threat to the group, and pump the public with a disinformation campaign designed to confuse and atomize. In essence, foster a cultlike mentality that shuts down thought to guarantee assent.

“Cultivate and wield our cognitive biases—especially ingroup bias, conformity bias, and authority bias—against us in a comprehensive divide-and-conquer policy that keeps us too busy squabbling amongst ourselves to recognize and unite against those corralling us into a Matrix-like collective delusion that enables the powerful to extract our resources for their own gain.

“This ideological mass psychosis is religion—not science. If this were about science, the Media–Pharmaceutical–Big-Tech complex would not be memory-holing every dissenting voice, vilifying every thought criminal, and censoring every legitimate inquiry in quest of the truth.”

“This is not a partisan issue. Those who wish to control us have made it such because disunited lemmings are easier to steer than independent, critical thinkers.”

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