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       Re: CORONAVIRUS - THE PALE HORSE
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       > Is The Coronavirus Evidence of a Creation in Freefall?
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       > How does theology explain a pandemic? Basic biology, human
       sin, or the Devil?
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       > When I first asked whether the coronavirus is evil, the virus
       was still novel and the panic not quite a pandemic. But as I
       type now, almost 1.5 million people have died worldwide and the
       virus proliferates relentlessly, a conflagration with plenty of
       wood yet to burn as we await a vaccine and its dissemination.
       What may have seemed to be a controllable fire in the beginning
       now rages nearly out of control in the United States, India,
       Brazil, Europe, and elsewhere. Viewing the virus as part of
       God’s “good creation” presses against our theological
       sensibilities. Is the coronavirus evil? How can it not be?
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       > “COVID-19 pandemic has wide implications for what Christians
       mean by the goodness of creation,” wrote theologian Hans
       Madueme, who leveraged my “hornet’s nest” of a query for an
       online symposium. As this array of brilliant respondents has
       written, a virus, no matter how destructive, cannot carry the
       moral equivalence of human willfulness. But the mere lack of
       moral willfulness does not make it good.
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       > Viruses are not free agents, but I still wonder about a kind
       of created freedom in the nature of things—akin to what we know
       about uncertainty in the quantum realm undergirding the reality
       we experience. Inasmuch as humans are made from the dust in
       God’s image (Gen. 2:7), there exists a continuity between
       Creator, creation, and creature. The free will of God manifests
       in the moral choices humans make, and is reflected, perhaps, in
       what we perceive as the random nature of nature.
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       > John Stackhouse labels the virus “a pestilence with no place
       in the messianic kingdom to come.” Katherine Sonderegger aptly
       narrated the dreadful landscape wrought by this microscopic
       legion, a link to Mark 5:9 and to the tyranny of Satan
       persuasively argued by Gregory Boyd, a virus victim himself. The
       New Testament easily attributes viral pestilence to the Devil’s
       work, though God can use it for his own glory. Whether or not we
       believe this is what we’re witnessing with the pandemic depends
       on our theology.
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       > As Jim Stump asserted, “science doesn’t get to answer
       theological questions, but it can certainly prompt us to
       reconsider whether we’ve done our theology well.” Science
       prompted me as a pastor to rethink certain aspects of my
       theology. As Christians, “we walk by faith, not by sight” (2
       Cor. 5:7), which means there’s more to reality than what we see.
       But it doesn’t mean we ignore what we can see. Faith is not
       fantasy. If theology is going to matter, it too must correspond
       with the way things are rather than with the way we believers
       want things to be.
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       > I’ve never been fully satisfied by the delineation of labor
       between science explaining the how and theology the why. As
       creator of all things, God authored all that science discovers.
       We know death and viruses preceded humanity’s appearance on
       earth, and both play an essential part in biological evolution.
       “A bad thing might be a good thing,” as Stackhouse reminds.
       Conversely, a good thing can become a bad thing too, as
       Sonderegger allows with her mention of privatio boni (the
       absence of good). I wrote a follow-up editorial in praise of St.
       Augustine’s reasoning of evil as essentially nothing, a basic
       nonentity with wholly derivative power. Like a virus, evil
       extracts its life from the goodness it perverts. Thus evil often
       gets spoken in terms of what it is not: injustice or iniquity or
       ingratitude, disorder, disobedience, faith lessness, law
       lessness, god lessness, and the rest.
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       > By laying the pandemic at Satan’s feet, Boyd asserts that to
       “take the New Testament’s perspective seriously” is to regard
       creation as “corrupted at some point by an enemy, to one degree
       or another.” As for how Satan becomes the Devil, science can’t
       help us. Tradition surmises he mutated through free will of his
       own. Theology grants moral agency on Satan’s part, a fallen
       angel before the fall who then provoked the fall of humans.
       Stackhouse notes the slithering serpent in Eden (and talking, no
       less, Gen. 3:1) as evidence of evil’s pre-Fall intrusion.
       Nevertheless, why allow an angel to become a demon? And why
       allow a snake in Eden’s grass—not to mention physical death and
       mosquitoes and the biological necessity of bacteria and viruses?
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       > The best I have to affirm remains the free will defense, the
       logic of love. God so loves the world that he sent his Son to
       save it (John 3:16), but love can’t be coerced and also be love.
       Thus God, of his own eternal free will, purposely factors free
       will into the system for love’s sake and for genuine
       relationship with people made in his image. Allowing freedom to
       love means freedom to reject love. Extrapolate this logic to
       nature as a whole and you have what some see as a hint behind
       the why of random uncertainty.
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       > Granted, God doesn’t desire a personal relationship with
       creation the way that he does with people, but the Creator’s
       relational nature still shows up in the symbiosis of nature. The
       freedom we experience as humans made from the dust corresponds
       to the free process wired into dust itself. But just as the free
       will of people (and angels) can reject God’s love—and do wrong
       and commit evil—so the free process of creation results in
       mosquitoes and the diseases they carry—not to mention genetic
       deformities, hurricanes, and earthquakes, all outcomes of a
       creation free to evolve and become what it becomes.
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       > To the extent that such explanations remain unsatisfactory, I
       remind us that theological conjecture at its best remains a
       sinners’ endeavor. Moreover, as Gerald Bray rightly adds, “God
       is under no obligation to explain himself to us.” We debate “the
       problem of evil,” which isn’t really a problem if by problem we
       mean a puzzle to be rationally solved. Among the factors making
       evil so evil is its defiance of logic. Even if you blame the
       Devil, how do you determine what made the Devil decide to become
       the Devil? Adam and Eve, created as good, had no good reason for
       choosing badly. They just did it. We do it too. By choosing
       wrongly, we prove free will exists, but the tyranny of evil is
       that as soon as we choose it, we are no longer free. As the
       apostle Paul made clear in Romans 7, our choices set boundaries,
       and our unavoidably bad choices set inescapably tight boundaries
       that affect our futures not only in finite time and space but
       for eternity too. Our freedom constrains to such a severe extent
       that Paul could only speak of it in terms of enslavement.
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       > Whether due to the wiles of the Devil, the randomness of a
       very good creation not yet fully free, or the mysterious
       providence of God, this coronavirus pandemic threatens,
       constrains, and destroys. It also eventually ends. Immunity and
       vaccines will take hold. The God who loves us gives us agency
       and creativity to overcome. But no human-generated immunity or
       vaccination exists against evil. Sin infects our souls over and
       over again. That the Son of God had to die to deliver us from
       evil attests to its truly hideous and destructive nature. Our
       only hope, thank God, is through Jesus Christ (Rom. 7:25), who
       starves evil of its power with his own sinless life. “God made
       him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might
       become the righteousness of God” (2 Cor. 5:21). Into this glory,
       creation groans for its own redemption (Romans 8:21) and one day
       will have it.
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       > This piece, adapted, was originally published in Sapientia, a
       periodical of the Henry Center for Theological Understanding, as
       a rejoinder to a series on the coronavirus and the goodness of
       creation.
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       > Daniel Harrell is editor in chief at Christianity Today.
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       touching the title....where do we put the other viruses like
       Saars that was far more deadlier.
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       Re: CORONAVIRUS - THE PALE HORSE
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       Date: November 21, 2020, 6:43 pm
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       Supreme Court Blocks New York’s Worship Service Restrictions
       It’s the first time during the pandemic the high court has sided
       with churches and synagogues challenging the new rules on
       religious liberty grounds.
       As coronavirus cases surge again nationwide the Supreme Court
       late Wednesday barred New York from enforcing certain limits on
       attendance at churches and synagogues in areas designated as
       hard hit by the virus.
       The justices split 5-4 with new Justice Amy Coney Barrett in the
       majority. It was the conservative’s first publicly discernible
       vote as a justice. The court’s three liberal justices and Chief
       Justice John Roberts dissented.
       The move was a shift for the court. Earlier this year, when
       Barrett’s liberal predecessor, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was
       still on the court, the justices divided 5-4 to leave in place
       pandemic-related capacity restrictions affecting churches in
       California and Nevada.
       The court’s action Wednesday could push New York to reevaluate
       its restrictions on houses of worship in areas designated virus
       hot spots, though both groups who sued are no longer in zones
       subject to the strictest attendance restrictions.
       The justices acted on an emergency basis, temporarily barring
       New York from enforcing the restrictions against the groups
       while their lawsuits continue. In an unsigned opinion the court
       said the restrictions “single out houses of worship for
       especially harsh treatment.”
       “Members of this Court are not public health experts, and we
       should respect the judgment of those with special expertise and
       responsibility in this area. But even in a pandemic, the
       Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten. The restrictions
       at issue here, by effectively barring many from attending
       religious services, strike at the very heart of the First
       Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty,” the opinion said.
       Though the decision addresses the restrictions in New York in
       particular, religious liberty expert John Inazu said on Twitter,
       “I think the Court’s conclusion is correct and makes some
       important observations, including that these orders cause
       irreparable harm because they involve restrictions of First
       Amendment freedoms, and that virtual worship is not a
       constitutionally sufficient alternative.”
       “In other words, worship is absolutely an ‘essential activity’
       and to say otherwise is constitutionally incorrect and
       politically unwise,” he added. Inazu, a law professor at
       Washington University in St. Louis, said it was the first time
       the high court had sided with houses of worship challenging
       COVID-19 regulations, but also that as the pandemic has gone on,
       Americans have learned more about the disproportionate risks of
       different activities.
       The opinion noted that in red zones, while a synagogue or church
       cannot admit more than 10 people, businesses deemed “essential,”
       from grocery stores to pet shops, can remain open without
       capacity limits. And in orange zones, while synagogues and
       churches are capped at 25 people, “even non-essential businesses
       may decide for themselves how many persons to admit.”
       Roberts, in dissent, wrote that there was “simply no need” for
       the court’s action. “None of the houses of worship identified in
       the applications is now subject to any fixed numerical
       restrictions,” he said, adding that New York’s 10 and 25 person
       caps “do seem unduly restrictive.”
       “The Governor might reinstate the restrictions. But he also
       might not. And it is a significant matter to override
       determinations made by public health officials concerning what
       is necessary for public safety in the midst of a deadly
       pandemic,” he wrote.
       Roberts and four other justices wrote separately to explain
       their views. Barrett did not.
       The court’s action was a victory for the Roman Catholic Church
       and Orthodox Jewish synagogues that had sued to challenge state
       restrictions announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on October 6.
       The Diocese of Brooklyn, which covers Brooklyn and Queens,
       argued houses of worship were being unfairly singled out by the
       governor’s executive order. The diocese argued it had previously
       operated safely by capping attendance at 25 percent of a
       building’s capacity and taking other measures. Parts of Brooklyn
       and Queens are now in yellow zones where attendance at houses of
       worship is capped at 50 percent of a building’s capacity, but
       the church is keeping attendance lower.
       “We are extremely grateful that the Supreme Court has acted so
       swiftly and decisively to protect one of our most fundamental
       constitutional rights—the free exercise of religion,” said Randy
       Mastro, an attorney for the diocese, in a statement.
       Avi Schick, an attorney for Agudath Israel of America, wrote in
       an email: “This is an historic victory. This landmark decision
       will ensure that religious practices and religious institutions
       will be protected from government edicts that do not treat
       religion with the respect demanded by the Constitution.”
       Two lower courts had sided with New York in allowing the
       restrictions to remain in place. New York had argued that
       religious gatherings were being treated less restrictively than
       secular gatherings that carried the same infection risk, like
       concerts and theatrical performances. An email sent early
       Thursday by The Associated Press to the governor’s office
       seeking comment was not immediately returned.
       There are currently several areas in New York designated orange
       zones but no red zones, according to a state website that tracks
       areas designated as hot spots.
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       SCOTUS Gets It Right on Religious Liberty: Church IS Essential
       But the right outcome here doesn’t mean all restrictions are
       invalid or that churches should reopen.
       Last night, the Supreme Court issued injunctive relief to houses
       of worship challenging New York City’s COVID-19 restrictions on
       in-person gatherings, the first time it has granted such relief
       during the pandemic. I have mixed views about the decision and
       early reactions to it.
       First, I don’t think this decision is as momentous as
       commentators are suggesting. It is fairly fact-specific
       injunctive relief, and the nature and scope of pandemic orders
       vary greatly around the country. It’s hard to generalize much
       from this decision, and I’m concerned that public messaging
       about it will fuel a broader culture wars narrative from
       religious leaders like John MacArthur who insist “there is no
       pandemic” and continue to hold services for 7,000 unmasked
       people. An injunction against a 25-person cap is not a green
       light to return to regular worship. Given the current state of
       the pandemic, it’s not even a yellow light.
       The dire rates of transmission we’re seeing all around the
       country, the Thanksgiving holiday travel, and our growing
       awareness that indoor, in-person gatherings are a major cause of
       transmission all increase the likelihood that even more
       restrictions may be coming. That’s another reason it’s best to
       view this order as limited and fact-specific.
       That said, I think the Court’s decision is correct and offers
       some important observations. One of the most important is that
       these shutdown orders cause irreparable harm because they
       restrict First Amendment freedoms—and that virtual worship is
       not a constitutionally sufficient alternative. In other words,
       worship is absolutely an “essential activity” and to say
       otherwise is constitutionally incorrect and politically unwise.
       The New York City order and others like it should not be
       classifying worship as non-essential. Of course worship is
       essential.
       That doesn’t mean worship may not be restricted. Earlier this
       year, the Court denied injunctive relief to a challenge against
       California’s restrictions affecting houses of worship. Chief
       Justice Robert’s concurrence supporting California’s
       restrictions seemed largely correct to me. In many cases,
       limitations on houses of worship will be constitutionally
       permissible policy decisions.
       The New York City order is an example of policy overreaching.
       The constitutionality of other orders will depend upon local
       context and the degree to which restricted activities share
       comparable characteristics. Justice Gorsuch’s concurrence in
       last night’s decision gets too cute, comparing worship services
       to bike shops and liquor stores:
       [T]he Governor has chosen to impose no capacity restrictions on
       certain businesses he considers “essential.” And it turns out
       the businesses the Governor considers essential include hardware
       stores, acupuncturists, and liquor stores. Bicycle repair shops,
       certain signage companies, accountants, lawyers, and insurance
       agents are all essential too. So, at least according to the
       Governor, it may be unsafe to go to church, but it is always
       fine to pick up another bottle of wine, shop for a new bike, or
       spend the afternoon exploring your distal points and meridians.
       Picking up a bottle of wine and attending a lengthy worship
       service are not comparable activities when we consider where
       people are located, how they’re moving, and what they’re doing.
       We would need to know a lot more before buying into Justice
       Gorsuch’s closer: “Who knew public health would so perfectly
       align with secular convenience?”
       Justice Gorsuch rightly notes that we are past the pandemic’s
       early stages and we know much more about the virus today. But
       it’s not clear which way that cuts. On the one hand, many houses
       of worship are taking precautions that appear to be effective
       (as noted by the evidence presented in this case), and certainly
       better than activities like in-person dining. On the other hand,
       the pandemic is getting worse.
       The elephant in the room is all of the latitude given
       restaurants and bars, whose gatherings seem far worse for the
       pandemic than limited-number, masked, indoor worship. As Amanda
       Mull observes in The Atlantic:
       Why can’t a governor or mayor just be honest? There’s no help
       coming from the Trump administration, the local coffers are
       bare, and as a result, concessions are being made to business
       owners who want workers in restaurants and employees in offices
       in order to white-knuckle it for as long as possible and with as
       many jobs intact as possible, even if hospitals start to fill up
       again.
       She’s right. That’s bad news for the pandemic, but it also
       weakens governmental responses to constitutional claims by
       houses of worship. Keeping Home Depot open while limiting houses
       of worship might make sense. Keeping restaurants and bars open
       while restricting houses of worship at the level of NYC’s order
       is much harder to defend.
       Of course, questions of law and governmental policy speak only
       to what houses of worship may do, not what they should do. At a
       time when much of the country is sick and suffering and much of
       the country is partying and dining, many houses of worship
       continue to comply voluntarily even when orders have exempted
       them. That’s a tangible sign of loving one’s neighbor, even at
       great cost.
       John Inazu is the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of
       Law and Religion at Washington University in St. Louis. He is
       the author of Liberty’s Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of
       Assembly (Yale University Press, 2012) and Confident Pluralism:
       Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference (University of
       Chicago Press, 2016), and co-editor (with Tim Keller) of
       Uncommon Ground: Living Faithfully in a World of Difference
       (Thomas Nelson, 2020).
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       Should Pastors Speak Up About the COVID-19 Vaccine?
       With Christians split on the issue, some urge vaccination as a
       form of neighborly love, while other leave it up to conscience.
       About half of US Protestant adults don’t plan to receive the new
       COVID-19 vaccine, according to a recent Pew Research Center
       survey.
       While confidence in the vaccine has actually risen since
       September—three companies announced viable vaccines last
       month—50 percent of white evangelicals and 59 percent of black
       Protestants say they won’t get the vaccine, while the majority
       of the US population overall (60%) says they will.
       For centuries, religion and medicine have collaborated for the
       prevention of disease, though the relationship at times has been
       complex. In more recent years, public health professionals have
       relied on church leaders’ support—particularly in communities of
       color—to gain trust in promoting health initiatives. The
       coronavirus pandemic has become another example of the complex
       relationship between faith and science.
       Given the split among Christians, how should pastors engage with
       their congregants about the COVID-19 vaccine? Should they
       encourage church attenders to receive the vaccine?
       CT heard from five pastors about how factors like race,
       theology, and congregational makeup affect their approach to the
       issue.
       Jeff Schultz, pastor of preaching and community at Faith Church
       in Indianapolis
       Our church been praying for vaccine research and development,
       but taking a vaccine is not something we would direct people on.
       Our congregation has a number of doctors, nurses, medical
       researchers, and people in pharmaceutical development. We
       believe that God works through miraculous intervention, but more
       commonly through our work, gifts, and wisdom applied in service
       to others. We’ve encouraged people to wear masks and practice
       social distancing. We have members who won’t return to in-person
       worship until a vaccine is available. But I don’t think we would
       say anything formally about taking a vaccine (except to give
       thanks for their existence).
       At an individual level, I will encourage people to consult with
       their physician on making that decision. I see masks and social
       distancing as extremely low-risk interventions that help us love
       our neighbors. A COVID-19 vaccine is another important way to
       stop the spread of a deadly disease, but I don’t believe that as
       a pastor I have the medical qualifications to direct people on
       medical treatments that may have side effects or long-term
       health impact. I want to help people see the good of a vaccine
       while asking us all to respect others’ decisions.
       Luke B. Bobo, director of strategic partnerships at Made to
       Flourish, a pastor’s network based in Kansas, and visiting
       professor at Covenant Theological Seminary
       Abortion, film, music, guns, cartoons, medical science—pastors,
       as cultural exegetes, must discuss these topics because such
       things are not benign. These cultural artifacts mediate messages
       that are often contrary to the Christian life and worldview, so
       engaging their congregants about the COVID-19 vaccine is no
       exception. I believe pastors must engage in vaccine discourse
       biblically, wisely, and Christianly.
       Of course, for African American pastors, engaging their
       congregants about this vaccine will be more complicated, as many
       abuses have been inflicted on black persons for the sake of
       medical progress. Who can forget the Tuskegee syphilis
       experiment and the infamous “HeLa” cells, cancerous cells stolen
       from Henrietta Lacks without her family’s consent? So pastors
       must engage this topic historically as well.
       Pastors must teach their people how to think critically about
       this COVID-19 vaccine. If they are asked whether they plan to
       take the vaccine, they should state their answer and follow with
       a statement like, “That is my decision; you must do the hard
       work and make your own decision.” In other words, pastors must
       not think for their congregants; rather, they must equip their
       people with the necessary tools so that they can think and
       decide for themselves.
       Mandy Smith, pastor at University Christian Church in Cincinnati
       I have no problem with vaccines on a philosophical or
       theological level and will defer to the medical professionals in
       my congregation who know more about such things than I know. The
       church I lead is on what’s sometimes called “Pill Hill”—we have
       four hospitals in our immediate neighborhood, and so we have
       quite a few medical professionals. At the same time, since we’re
       in a diverse community, we also have quite a few folks
       interested in alternative lifestyles, which leads them to be
       wary of vaccines.
       As Christians, we need to have space for difference of
       opinions—unity in essentials, liberty in nonessentials, and in
       all things, love. On a philosophical level, our opinion about
       vaccines is nonessential—we won’t lose our salvation and
       shouldn’t split with other Christians over it.
       At the same time, on a practical level, with a vaccine the
       decisions we make affect one another. While we might have
       differences of opinion where we can agree to disagree, if our
       children are playing together, and we’re sharing potluck meals
       and Communion, the choices we make about vaccines are not for
       our own personal sake but for the sake of our entire community.
       If there’s one thing that the pandemic has shown us, it’s that
       our lives, bodies, and health are interwoven.
       Stephen Cook, senior pastor of Second Baptist Church in Memphis
       COVID-19 has claimed the lives of more than 283,000 of our
       neighbors in the United States, more than 1.5 million of our
       neighbors around the world. With the hope of a vaccine on the
       near horizon, pastors have the opportunity to call Christ’s
       people in our congregations to neighbor-love in a way that
       embodies Christ’s command to love one another.
       When Jesus is questioned by a lawyer who wants to know who
       counts as his neighbor (Luke 10), he responds with the story of
       the Samaritan who stopped to provide for the needs of the one
       beaten and left for dead. Notably, the Samaritan whom Jesus
       points to as an exemplar of merciful service lives out the call
       to neighbor-love through an act of healing.
       Encouraging people of faith to be vaccinated against this
       disease that has devastated so many is a pastoral
       responsibility. It is an occasion to summon Christ’s followers
       to consider the role we have to play in promoting the healing of
       the world. It is an opportunity for us to recall that, at the
       end of the story, Jesus lifts up the one who acts like a
       neighbor in response to a desperate need.
       Stephanie Lobdell, campus pastor at Mount Vernon Nazarene
       University in Ohio
       The directive of Christ to love our neighbor has informed the
       life of the university campus I pastor in distinctive ways, from
       masks to plexiglass dividing diners in the cafeteria. Moving
       forward, it ought to inform our posture toward the vaccine as
       well. To receive the vaccine if one is physically able is yet
       another way to practice love for neighbor.
       As a Christian liberal arts university in the Wesleyan-Holiness
       tradition, we bring an additional impetus to the vaccine
       conversation. As Wesleyans, we hold steadfastly to the
       centrality of cooperative grace in Christian practice. God takes
       the initiative toward us, inviting us into a relationship of
       love as well as into meaningful partnership in the work of
       embodying new creation. We seek to inspire our students to view
       the vocation for which they are studying as an expression of
       that partnership.
       When scientists unravel the DNA of a dangerous virus, when
       doctors work tirelessly to find more effective treatments, when
       researchers formulate a shot that protects people against
       infection, we do not raise a self-righteous fist in the face of
       science claiming, “Faith over fear!” Rather, we rejoice. We
       rejoice at the life-giving manifestation of divinely ordained
       vocation. We proclaim thanks be to God, both for God’s provision
       and for the holy gift of human capacity.
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       Re: CORONAVIRUS - THE PALE HORSE
   DIR By: patrick jane
       Date: December 13, 2020, 8:08 pm
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       "Viruses of the mind": Fighting for Truth inside this
       increasingly polluted 'meme-pool'...
       Dawkins spreading his memes at Cannes 2007
       43 minutes
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5IRYbzS-gs
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       Re: CORONAVIRUS - THE PALE HORSE
   DIR By: patrick jane
       Date: December 17, 2020, 6:45 pm
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPIIMHu9ufU
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       Re: CORONAVIRUS - THE PALE HORSE
   DIR By: patrick jane
       Date: December 29, 2020, 8:30 pm
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA-5XB2Bqds
       Dr Robert Willner, author of the famous book "Deadly Deception",
       proved that viruses do not cause disease. He supported the
       Terrain theory and debunked the idea that sex and HIV do not
       cause AIDS.
       
       "The Bubonic plague killed half the population of Europe. The
       question you must ask and must answer, if you are going to be a
       rational thinking Human being is why didn't it kill the other
       half?
       In United States, in 1919, 18 million people died of the flu. My
       question is why didn't it kill the other 92 million die?
       The answer to that and every reporter owes it to their readers
       is very simple, the bugs do not cause the disease, unless there
       is a suitable terrain.
       So the answer to all disease is not to take the shotgun and blow
       a Human being apart, but to simply prevent the disease to begin
       with, by living at peace and in harmony, not only with your
       fellow Human beings, but every organism on this planet."
       Video taken from the channel:
       UnifyThePeople -
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_kvnUusdDPeJgByvgkEFAA
       #Post#: 23058--------------------------------------------------
       Re: CORONAVIRUS - THE PALE HORSE
   DIR By: guest8
       Date: December 29, 2020, 9:02 pm
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       --- Quote from: patrick jane link ---
       >
       >
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA-5XB2Bqds
       >
       >
       > Dr Robert Willner, author of the famous book "Deadly
       Deception", proved that viruses do not cause disease. He
       supported the Terrain theory and debunked the idea that sex and
       HIV do not cause AIDS.
       >
       >
       > "The Bubonic plague killed half the population of Europe. The
       question you must ask and must answer, if you are going to be a
       rational thinking Human being is why didn't it kill the other
       half?
       >
       >
       > In United States, in 1919, 18 million people died of the flu.
       My question is why didn't it kill the other 92 million die?
       >
       >
       > The answer to that and every reporter owes it to their readers
       is very simple, the bugs do not cause the disease, unless there
       is a suitable terrain.
       > So the answer to all disease is not to take the shotgun and
       blow a Human being apart, but to simply prevent the disease to
       begin with, by living at peace and in harmony, not only with
       your fellow Human beings, but every organism on this planet."
       >
       >
       > Video taken from the channel:
       > UnifyThePeople -
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_kvnUusdDPeJgByvgkEFAA
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       He is right...
       But I will go one further.....  God is the one being that can
       allow one to get the virus or not. Rem. He is in control of
       everything.    He also determines when each of us will die,
       whether it be from a heart attack, car wreck, war or by a
       virus........Thank Him for your good health instead of those
       that will deceive you.l
       Blade
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