Of Hypocrites, Healing, and Hydroxycholoroquine

Mark Seiler in North Carolina notes,

My daily devotional really hit a nerve this morning. All the withering attacks on the Frontline Doctors because they cure people of the Deadly Covid using hydroxycholoroquine, zinc, etc., made me realize it is a religion for the maskers, anti-social distancers and covidiots…

And a disgustingly false religion at that.

Luke 13:10-17 is the passage that inspired Mark to so muse:

10 On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” 13 Then he put his hands on her,

Whoa! No anti-social distancing! Are you heeding, Parson Goat?

and immediately she straightened up and praised God.

14 Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue leader said to the people, “There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.”

15 The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you on the Sabbath untie your ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water? 16 Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?”

17 When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing.

Mark adds,

History doesn’t repeat but, it sure does rhyme. They care more about their sacred “rules” than they do about people.

 

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5:11 pm on July 30, 2020