DUMB INSOLENCE #11

 DUMB INSOLENCE #11

When "Lockdown" was first decreed by the bumbling,half-witted coterie of cretins  ( aka HMG ) back in March 2020 ,the likes of Canterbury zealously and without question followed immediately in the footsteps of Rome and complied without the slightest scintilla of dissent to Caesars' diktat. 

For the first time in 800 years,it was noted by the atheist/anti-Christian MSM,Church services in England were shut down and church congregations laid silent.And after a little while,by the issuing of various statutory instruments,Ministers further decreed that Churches ( they meant building used for Christian worship since time immemorial ) would be granted certain concessions as to numbers, social distancing,and the absence of choirs and playing of musical instruments and singing by the congregation.

And,again without hesitation - the church bodies of Canterbury ( following Rome ) metaphorically doffed their sunday best hats and curtsied before Caesar.You see,on-line,digital ,virtual church was their get-out clause,their collective "ah,yes,well,but.." way of evading let alone confronting the proverbial elephant which they had let into their room.

2,000 terrestrial years ( give or take ) and the scriptural guidance on not forsaking the gathering together of believers - Hebrews 10:25 had somehow,theologically become optional.A clause in the contract that miraculously was kind of negotiable, an aspirational issue and not one of fundamental requirement among the body.

Some Churches, such as pentecostal / charismatic ones in South Korea had long since told their local Caesar to go take a walk and chose to gather together.For the non-resisting ones it is more than just a stretch of  what possible,granular  versions of " gather together " can be derived from the words as written.

1 Corinthians 3:13 tells the Church what it needs to know.Tested by fire that reveals their value.Negotiable? I don't think so.

The church universal ( with exceptions ) has done what Rome and its kow-towing acolytes has always done when push comes to shove. It invokes - falsely , an a priori requirement for obedience to Caesar and then insists that the collective body does precisely that.Pleasing Man before God.

Human rights, civil rights,democratic rights are continuously violated,pro-rogued and abused all across our world every single hour of the day.It is,ineluctably a measure of the integrity and sincerity of the church universal whether it speaks out and seeks to oppose and counter such egregious barbarism perpetrated against the People by Authorities.

An unscrupulous,venal,bullying authoritarian government ,lying,duplicitous Ministers,proven falsehood after proven falsehood presented as policy and strategy.

And what followed? the Silence of a Compliant Church.