Are We Asymptomatic Sinners?

Vaccine passports ease one's journey through airports and restaurants, and the good news is that no antibodies to Covid—no vaccine-conferred immunity—is required in order to use the passport.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said, “The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out [the] virus, which is small enough to pass through the material.” That was February 2020. In January of 2021, Foxy Fauci was recommending double-masking. "One mask at least [is effective], but if you want to really be sure, get a tighter fit with a second mask...It just makes common sense.”

People wonder if this is “the big cull”? Or can we stop thinking genocide and focus on the global implementation of the Chinese Social Credit System for total control of every individual on earth.

When does the real fallout start? Is the vaccine itself a bioweapon? Will it be death by Antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE)?

I have a brother who has asked repeatedly as we live through this insanity, “Where are the grown-ups? Where are the adults?” That's a good question. Because if the adults were in the room, they would already see the fallout all around us. Adults would be able to turn their attention from their own concerns about lockdowns, employment insecurity and health risks. Adults would immediately see that children are the victims here and adults would demand that sanity be restored. The adults have left the building.

Globally, addiction, depression and suicide are on the rise among children and youth. Studies are conducted and hands are wrung, but the root problem remains. Adults have abdicated responsibility. And this happened long before The Age of Covid. I've been reading studies about the harms of media on developing minds for several decades. I was shocked when I first saw a cell phone in the hands of a ten-year-old but now I routinely see two-year-olds with “smart” phones.

Pornography is a tap away and the age of children who are regularly viewing it gets younger all the time.  A recent investigation into Chinese-owned TikTok by the Wall Street Journal found that minors can easily be exposed to videos featuring sexual content. In the spring of 2020, the Canadian company, Pornhub, offered free memberships to countries on coronavirus lockdown. News coverage at the time read like paid promotions for the “service.”

Most people are born, live and die in the artificial construct of the Deviant Class, those who would be gods of this realm. However, we are born with an innate understanding of Good and Evil, our conscience.

How can we be kept distracted from birth to death, always focused on this world that has been designed to imprison us and blind us to eternal truths? For the adults, there are worries and fears aplenty, mortgages (the gauge of death), employment security, marital ups and downs. But for the children? Scientifically-designed toys aimed at their unique brain frequencies, their little sponge-minds. Cell phones loaded with apps that can magically transport them anywhere. Video games where their amazing hand-eye coordination and lightning reflexes can shine. No worry at all to the adults that DARPA and the military-industrial complex proudly boast ownership of the concepts and design of these games for their ends.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the psychology of persuasion, coercion and control, and how this science is being used to force our submission, to make us bow to evil. Of course, psychology is a broad field that encompasses many sub-disciplines, including neurolinguistcs, behaviorism, marketing, etc., and is closely related to many other sciences that together can be misused as means of control.

Peace, to our ruling elite, is the absence of all opposition to their plans. Peace is when every mind is conquered and owned by a small, dominant minority at the top. Their godhood cannot be declared openly if one knee refuses to bow. There will be individuals who will not bend their knees to this agenda. Those of us who won't submit, who will not bow to evil, are the adults. If we can take our eyes off our devices, and face reality, children will follow.

 

Three short stories about church

Religion has historically served as a moral compass for societies. Salvation (or breaking through to reality and higher truths) has always been the journey of an individual. Religion and individuality have been under attack for generations. If parents (adults) lack morals and individuality, what is it they are conveying to children?

I recently drove through Louisiana with a friend, and we stayed at a hotel east of Shreveport. Our breakfast buffet was beautifully prepared by a black woman named Mabel.  Mabel also had Choctaw heritage (as I do) of which she was very proud.  Mabel, although forced to wear a mask, radiated both humility and pride in her work. She sparked to us, and my friend and I chatted quite a while with her about her life, her love of sewing, the recent death of her closest sister, how her work had caught the attention of the hotel chain owner, who insisted that she head up the cooking staff of his latest installation.

We were on a schedule, so we stood and began saying goodbye. It was at this point, after twenty or thirty minutes of chatting, as we were poised to leave, that Mabel felt comfortable enough with us to open up on the sensitive topics of politics and religion. 

“I've had enough of this nonsense, these masks and such.”

“Yes,” we agreed, “it's pretty tiresome.” “And they can keep their vaccines,” Mabel continued. “I'll never take one of those. This plague has been sent by God as his final warning that people better repent.”

She was on a roll.

“Just look at the filth they put on television. Think of all those babies being aborted every day. Why, I was laid up in the hospital, not walking for three months, so I could have my second baby girl, and her a gift from God, because I lost my son. People said I miscarried him, but I didn't miscarry. I brought that stillborn baby boy to full term and he had a name. He's buried in the family plot over at the Baptist church. You know, that church is really just a family church. Everybody in the pews is one way or another related to my husband's family . . . God has had enough of all those abortions and the filth and pornography and he has brought down a plague. This evil has got to stop and I'm not defying Him by getting a vaccine.”

“You're right, Mabel,” I said. “Evil is in our faces now and we call it good. Did you know that Biden's Assistant Secretary for Health is a 'transgender' named ‘Rachel Levine’?” (I'm not going to tell exactly what I said to Mabel; some of it was meant only for her ears.) “Rachel Levine is actively involved in the policies shaping our lives and before this appointment, Levine was the Secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of Health. During Levine's tenure there, Health Pennsylvania published guidelines about safe sex and Covid-19. Those guidelines included tips on how to conduct yourself at large gatherings where you might be having sex. That's an orgy, Mabel, and Levine is now instituting policy at the federal level.”

She was disgusted to learn that, but added, “Well, you know that Trump did his ‘Operation Warp Speed’ and that's the military delivering vaccines.” Mabel said that she had voted “Jesus” in 2020, but even looking in the face of evil can have a partisan spin.  She said she was grateful to talk about what's going on in this world.  Then we finally said our farewells and left.

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I have a cousin who belongs to a church in a large urban area. It's a “woke” congregation, based upon the stories she tells.  Black Lives Matter from the pulpit. They live-streamed through the lockdowns and everyone is quite conscientious about adhering to all recommendations and guidelines from the authorized sources such as the WHO and the CDC.

My cousin's pastor regularly illustrates his sermons with examples from, and references to, pop culture. “It's a great way to reach people so they can really relate to what he's saying.” She mentioned that once he had her laughing aloud when he told a story from the television series, “Game of Thrones.” I've never seen that series, or indeed most of the series on television for the last fifteen years, but someone sent me some discs so that I'd “know what they're putting out there.” Before watching, I did a bit of research and learned that in the first episode, incest was featured and in the second episode, the viewer was “treated” to a sex scene with a male dwarf and two women. I tossed the DVDs into the wood-burning stove, unwatched.

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I had the opportunity to hear an excellent sermon this past Sabbath entitled “Moral Injury.” This term arises out of our experience with soldiers who have been traumatized by what they have witnessed or participated in. It is related to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but different.  Moral injury is the damage done when a person perpetrates, witnesses, or fails to prevent, acts that transgress his moral beliefs, values, or ethical code of conduct.  It is a distinct kind of injury.

The pastor was enlarging on this idea and talking about how people, including Christians, can choose to watch and read “entertainment” that morally injures them.  And if there is moral injury, it stands to reason that eventually there can be moral death; the moral injuries pile up until the person is morally dead. 

Scripture describes this situation, when people’s “consciences have been seared, as with a hot iron.”  1 Tim. 4:2. When people “have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.” Eph. 4:19. The pastor read this passage: “For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Therefore, God gave them over” . . . well, we know the litany of degrading acts to which they were “given over.”

The pastor noted the irony that many Christians are, during this pandemic, extremely careful to avoid anything that might make them physically ill; they are quick to adhere to every arbitrary rule and guideline—mask up, social distance, don’t sing hymns in church!  They are frightened of all the asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 cases; they might be sick and not even know it, or they might be made sick by someone who is asymptomatic.

The pastor coined the phrase “Asymptomatic Sinners.” Asymptomatic sinners haven’t cheated on their spouses, they haven’t robbed a bank, they haven’t killed anyone, but the damage, the moral injury, is slowly being done by what they feed into their eyes, ears, and minds; the movies they watch, the music they listen to, the books they read. We’ve been feeding on garbage for so long that it has dulled our consciences, so we don’t even know we’re sick.  We’re asymptomatic sinners. 

How do we avoid moral injury?  Paul tells us in Philippians 4:8:

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”

 

Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.”  Ephesians 4:17-20