Your story made me tear up. I know you and many have tragic stories like that, breaks my heart, what was done. I have my own losses I feel, it's personal.
With respect to your church and many churches like it, with many congregants like you, all doing the best they could in a difficult situation, it's hard to lay blame on them, such nice,…
Your story made me tear up. I know you and many have tragic stories like that, breaks my heart, what was done. I have my own losses I feel, it's personal.
With respect to your church and many churches like it, with many congregants like you, all doing the best they could in a difficult situation, it's hard to lay blame on them, such nice, kind, caring people. But the clergy, the elders, the national and international organized faith institutions could've said "NO" to the orders at the start. And followed in the tradition of churches in all prior outbreaks of disease, and stayed open, offered sanctuary, for the sick and dying, no matter what the government, media and health departments said.
They failed. They failed the biggest test of being servants to God. Almighty. And chose to obey man's laws instead of God's laws. Faith leaders failed! With the exception of Artur Pawlowski in Canada, and the few anonymous others who blatantly defied man's law to serve God first. "Oh, we might get fined" "Oh we might get sick "Oh we might be shut down" "Oh the national hierarchy will strip my church of affiliation" "Oh my congregants will be angry with me" whatever their excuse it's just that, an excuse. God needs servants of the strongest faith, the courageous, the Daniel's, who will stand up to wicked and corrupt men. Instead all of the institutions of faith around the world took bended knee to man's law, their faith in God subservient to their faith government.
It was shocking to watch. Had faith leaders united, Interfaith councils and all, and civilly disobeyed the unconstitutional orders to close, it all would've stopped. Even pandemic response studies and lessons from the Spanish Flu said "Don't close houses of worship!" Don't do it! They are necessary for the souls of people in frightening time, they need to serve communities especially in times of crisis. Yet they all obeyed. And closed. You're telling me it wasn't even until Memorial Day, two months, that's obscene! No excuse. They turned their back on their flocks. Cowardly. Weak men. Weak of faith in God, Almighty. They failed.
Sure, they did what they could, after prostrating church to state, after they made themselves supplicants and the biggest harm was injury was inflicted. Sure, they're back to serving their congregations as they served them before 2020. But they failed. The cowardice and weakness in faith cannot be unseen. Their non-performance of ministering when entire communities needed them most can't be forgotten. But, as you said, only God can judge them for it.
As for me, they revealed themselves, exposed their acceptance of the practice of religion being inferior to government. Inferior to a hardware store, a liquor store, a weed store, a strip club. Their obedience to such wicked men proved them and their religious institutions unworthy of being God's servants. They did it before. They will do it again. They've already made that negotiation.
I'll never go to an organized religion house of worship again. I'll worship with other true believers, risk the police knocking down our doors - as Artur Pawlowski did - to gather to worship God in defiance of immoral man's authority. God is the Almighty. Not wicked men. Not weak servants of God who submit to wicked men. They sold us out in 2020. They reap the consequences of demonstrated faithlessness.
Your story made me tear up. I know you and many have tragic stories like that, breaks my heart, what was done. I have my own losses I feel, it's personal.
With respect to your church and many churches like it, with many congregants like you, all doing the best they could in a difficult situation, it's hard to lay blame on them, such nice, kind, caring people. But the clergy, the elders, the national and international organized faith institutions could've said "NO" to the orders at the start. And followed in the tradition of churches in all prior outbreaks of disease, and stayed open, offered sanctuary, for the sick and dying, no matter what the government, media and health departments said.
They failed. They failed the biggest test of being servants to God. Almighty. And chose to obey man's laws instead of God's laws. Faith leaders failed! With the exception of Artur Pawlowski in Canada, and the few anonymous others who blatantly defied man's law to serve God first. "Oh, we might get fined" "Oh we might get sick "Oh we might be shut down" "Oh the national hierarchy will strip my church of affiliation" "Oh my congregants will be angry with me" whatever their excuse it's just that, an excuse. God needs servants of the strongest faith, the courageous, the Daniel's, who will stand up to wicked and corrupt men. Instead all of the institutions of faith around the world took bended knee to man's law, their faith in God subservient to their faith government.
It was shocking to watch. Had faith leaders united, Interfaith councils and all, and civilly disobeyed the unconstitutional orders to close, it all would've stopped. Even pandemic response studies and lessons from the Spanish Flu said "Don't close houses of worship!" Don't do it! They are necessary for the souls of people in frightening time, they need to serve communities especially in times of crisis. Yet they all obeyed. And closed. You're telling me it wasn't even until Memorial Day, two months, that's obscene! No excuse. They turned their back on their flocks. Cowardly. Weak men. Weak of faith in God, Almighty. They failed.
Sure, they did what they could, after prostrating church to state, after they made themselves supplicants and the biggest harm was injury was inflicted. Sure, they're back to serving their congregations as they served them before 2020. But they failed. The cowardice and weakness in faith cannot be unseen. Their non-performance of ministering when entire communities needed them most can't be forgotten. But, as you said, only God can judge them for it.
As for me, they revealed themselves, exposed their acceptance of the practice of religion being inferior to government. Inferior to a hardware store, a liquor store, a weed store, a strip club. Their obedience to such wicked men proved them and their religious institutions unworthy of being God's servants. They did it before. They will do it again. They've already made that negotiation.
I'll never go to an organized religion house of worship again. I'll worship with other true believers, risk the police knocking down our doors - as Artur Pawlowski did - to gather to worship God in defiance of immoral man's authority. God is the Almighty. Not wicked men. Not weak servants of God who submit to wicked men. They sold us out in 2020. They reap the consequences of demonstrated faithlessness.