This last year has impressed on all of us, Christian and non-believer alike, that the American Church is in serious jeopardy. Its pastors obey government, not God, nor do its members object to such apostasy. With its closed doors, virtual “services” and requiring of reservations before a lost sinner can hear the Gospel, the Church is no longer a light to the world but a blight on it.
The reasons for the Church’s dereliction are legion, but allow me to introduce one of them: Curtis Chang. He is “a former pastor[,] and now I teach pastors as a seminary professor.”
Chang “graduated from Harvard and is a former Rockefeller Fellow.” Several “Fellows” plague us courtesy of the Rockefellers. I’m unsure which group includes ol’ Curt, but it doesn’t much matter: all are fascist, a la this one that proclaims its “partnership” between New York City’s government and its “business leaders.”
No wonder Chang now festers “on the faculty of the Duke Divinity School and is a Senior Fellow at Fuller Theological Seminary.” Duke wallows in its Marxism: on its “About” page, three paragraphs promulgate communist philosophy while only two discuss Duke. Fuller’s website offers an overflowing buffet of word-salads in which it sprinkles “evangelicals” and “for the kingdoms” like croutons, but I’m danged if I can discover its stance on such essentials as Scripture’s inerrancy and inspiration, Christ’s substitutionary death for our sins, and the absolute sufficiency of His sacrifice.
I think we can safely assume that adherence to these doctrines never hampers an institution when men like Curtis Chang are in charge.
“OK, Chang’s evil,” you’re saying. “But why should I care?”
Because of his website peddling pro-vax propaganda. He calls it “Christians (?) and the Vaccine,” with that errant question-mark thrown in there as if the subject is a puzzle he’s honestly exploring.
But of course, Curt and his partner in crime, Kris Carter, not only enthuse about The Jab, they hope to gull Christians into taking it with claims almost as preposterous as Franklin Graham’s (“Based on the parable of the Good Samaritan in the Bible, I would have to say — yes, I think Jesus Christ would advocate for people using vaccines and medicines to treat suffering and save lives…”). Kris and Curt confess that their “goal is to equip pastors and Christian leaders to help [sic for ‘browbeat’] others”—that would be you and me—”apply biblical principles [sic for ‘our opinion’] to this topic. Based on these principles, we encourage Christians to take the vaccine.”
Wanna bet this diabolical duo are devout members of the Clergy Response Team?
Meanwhile, those alleged “biblical principles” include one that I find nowhere in Scripture, despite Curt’s insistence: we should trust the experts. Yep, the corporate media’s prescription for surviving the plandemic now has Biblical backing, to hear Curt tell it: “…we have to regularly trust experts and institutions to navigate life. And here is the important Biblical principle: that is a good thing! God designed us to trust. God designed us to trust institutions and experts.” He did?
Is it me, or does Curt’s silliness sound more like the Babylon Bee’s “Experts Are Super Smart and 100% Reliable, Experts Confirm” than Holy Writ? (Thanks to Bill Martin for sending the satire!)
Perhaps Curt reads a different Bible than I, because mine says the opposite: depend on the Lord, rather than on sinful, fallen men. Especially sinful, fallen men who glory in evil as does the CDC with its promotion of sodomy and transgenderism. Ah, but Curt contends that the notoriously deceptive, devious and corrupt CDC and other federal agencies “have proven themselves to be trustworthy for many decades.”
Maybe Curt’s talking about a different CDC than I…
I know, I know: why concern ourselves with this Goat? Since he and Kris aren’t besieging us with loaded hypodermics, why let them bother us?
Well, their poison is felling Parsons Goat here and there and may contaminate yours next; several of you have already written to bemoan the needles and National Guard and lines of cars in your church’s parking lot. And a Goat in Cleves, Ohio, who turned Whitewater Crossing Church into a “Vaccination Clinic” directly credits Curt and Kris. While Whitewater’s website doesn’t yet advertise this horror, its Goat emailed his congregation. One of them forwarded that missive to me:
…Although we are seeing more and more folks return to in-person services since last September (and our online numbers have never been higher), all of the data suggests that church attendance nationwide has fallen and a decline in church membership has accelerated.
Hmmm: ya think? Could closing your doors tighter than Judas’ purse have anything to do with that?
This trend was recently confirmed by Gallup. The admonition of “not neglecting the habit of meeting together” (Hebrews 10:25) as a church has never been more important.
Riiiiiight. And that would explain why you “neglected the habit of meeting together” during the anti-Constitutional, anti-Biblical lockdown.
Many are just now returning to in-person worship because they have now been vaccinated. I am a huge fan of this! Introduction: Should Christians take the vaccine? – Christians and the Vaccine.
Yo, Curt: you owe this dude. Look at his shameless plug for your shameless propaganda.
I just completed my second dose.
And the plans for your funeral, too, right?
Toward that end, we are pleased to announce we are hosting a Vaccination Clinic here on our campus (see attached flyer at bottom of this email). …
I guess being a “Gospel Clinic” wasn’t enough, huh?
I am encouraging all who call Whitewater home to get the vaccine. The sooner all of us get it, the sooner we can enjoy and welcome more people in person (and eventually without masks).
Why am I not even slightly surprised that Parson Goat forces his sheep to muzzle themselves?
Mr. Anonymous tells me he, his family, and at least 4 other friends
will never attend that church again. The ironic part is that if the church requires the ‘holy jab’ to attend (they seemed to imply that is their goal), we won’t be attending anyway.
On a side note, it is quite amazing that the church is preaching Faith Over Fear, yet every action they take says the opposite (register to attend church for contact tracing, anti social distancing, masks, etc). Where is the faith again? Unless they mean faith in government…then it makes sense.”
Bingo. Mr. Anonymous shows more godly discernment in that last paragraph than Chang has likely demonstrated in his entire life.
Some might argue that most pastors aren’t politically attuned, let alone astute. “Becky, you have the luxury of researching and writing about COVIDCon and the government all day,” they’d sniff. “Sure, it’s easy for cranks like you to see the real story, but these guys”—ahem: and gals. Don’t forget the female comrades now filling pulpits—”have sermons to write and sick parishioners to visit—masked, of course—and bulletins to fold… You can’t expect them to be as cynical as you. They doing the best they can, even if you don’t agree with them.”
Really? Then why are Goats always Marxist? Why do none of them, let alone half, damn COVIDiocy? Why do they forever excuse DC’s totalitarianism, as Curt glibly does:
…it is important to emphasize that while the Biden Administration believes the vaccine is necessary for everyone, it is making the vaccine program completely voluntary. Local governments will certainly follow the federal government on this. So at the most obvious level, the vaccine is not a form of government control because the government is not making it mandatory …
Yet.
8:02 pm on April 15, 2021
