Earlier today, while sharpening the saw, I was having a deep discussion with a dear friend who possesses a large intellectual grasp on the big picture. Unfortunately, like many of us, my friend is deep behind enemy lines and a subject of totalitarian COVID rules that would shock our year-ago selves.
Part of our conversation covered the absence of leadership from anyone, anyone in a position of influence, who could eloquently connect the challenges of COVID regulation to the humanity of people. It is an important issue for me, because I -like most of you- can see the damage all around me; yet, we are supposed to pretend this ‘new normal’ is not isolating, not killing, not undermining the most vulnerable around us.
Poet Robert Burns called it “man’s inhumanity to man,” a premise that as humans we are destined to be forlorn, because the feeling of sadness is a steeper slope than the rise of happiness. The counteracting force to battle isolation is fellowship, a larger connection to our social network.
The governmental premise of COVID isolation, quarantine and lockdown protocols are all antithetical to the essential human need, connection. Nothing within those regulatory rules has anything to do with public health. Exactly the opposite is true – isolation, loneliness and a disconnect from people is far deadlier than any virus. However, even more deadly is this toxic and purposeful division between the vaccinated and unvaccinated.
No one in a position of political influence is talking about the damage to our social fabric created by government COVID regulations. The silence is deafening; however, Neil Oliver is a voice in the wilderness who deeply understands the immoral nature of their silence. WATCH:
Mr. Neil Oliver eloquently explains his position that he will not participate in any system of forced or coerced division. When encountering an institution, business or enterprise that demands vaccinated status as a precondition; we will not participate or lend credibility toward such an abusive fiat by complying with their dictate or demand. Isolation starts with a rebellion against God, and we must be conscious about the human need to be connected.
I will not divide my humanity, nor concede my core view of fellowship, simply to comply with the demand of another that I consider my brother or sister of greater or lesser value than myself. Any business that chooses that path will not benefit from my economic participation. I choose freedom!
Not only are various governmental agencies forcing the separation of people from their community networks, we are also seeing faith-based organizations, churches, buying into the fear. Even in areas where churches are not forcibly shut down, many are seeing a structural shift where some faith leaders are willingly ostracizing their community under the guise of various COVID alarms or vaccination status. This is not good…. not good at all.
Fellowship is the essential ingredient to a purposeful life. How and why we interact with each other is how and why we recharge our core humanity. To see faith leaders willing to separate from the function of fellowship is alarming. However, as individuals we must not allow this foreboding sense to become the normal expectation.
Throughout history, large armies have been defeated through the process of division. It is not a leap to see the same strategic objectives being deployed against social assemblies including congregations. It is puzzling how many in leadership cannot see the danger in social and spiritual distance when the bond of fellowship is needed more than ever.
Each of us has a different connection to our community. Each of us has a different level of internal strength… such is the nature of living. However, distance between people is manifestly not a good outcome when combined with the lack of food for the soul.
Ultimately, it is the currency of human connection that is the true value in our lives.
We have each felt how our positive influence upon the lives of others nourishes our own sense of purpose and fulfillment. Do not lose that. Do not think you can compensate for that through other arbitrary measures; you cannot.
With local, state and federal leaders moving beyond the workplace distance; and beyond the community distance; and beyond the church distance; and now entering your home to tell you the importance of separating yourself from your family based on their vaccine status, we must evaluate these arbitrary decrees very deliberately.
Evaluate very closely what YOU are willing to give up for short term unproven benefit, if at all – because you will never recapture your humanity once you intentionally allow it to be destroyed. Once you stop flinching at emotional pain, you have not gained any benefit from the inability to feel. Instead, you have permanently lost something far more valuable.
Perhaps we are in this position today because we didn’t sit still enough and contemplate the real priorities in our lives.
Our liberty is inherent. Our freedom is inherent. The removal of both requires consent.
I choose not to disconnect.
I choose purpose.
I choose fellowship; and in making that choice I protect my own humanity.
i put a sign on my business the first of nov that says,,, “i’m done! no masks allowed in my store” – part of me feels guilty for promoting the divide. however, most people get a sense of joy from it and thank us.
There are a couple of businesses in my community with the same message. I go out of my way to support their business. Even if the store does not carry something I use, I buy items I don’t need to give as gifts.
Bravo!!
ANYONE who asks me about my mask…my response is a question: UNDER WHAT AUTHORITY DO YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO TELL ME/ASK ME/CONJOLE ME into wearing a mask? The responses have been through the gamut but they are beginning to see the “light”!!! However, some are a little more denser of brain matter than others….
Your a business I would visit….JUST SAYIN’….
Don’t ever give up. Don’t ever give in. Don’t ever stop trying.
I just smile and ignore.
I had someone complain when I described someone from the far east as “oriental”. I was told I should call them “asian”. I was describing their appearance, not the continent where they were born.
I just tell the word police I don’t let other people chose my vocabulary.
Good grief, that is petty. What difference does it make!
“I don’t let other people chose my vocabulary”
I like that. The next time someone tells me they do not like the way Trump talks. I will tell them, “Trump doesn’t let other people choose his vocabular and neither do I”.
What blows me away are the doctors who insist on making you wear a mask. Of all people they should be aware of the ludicrousness of these “mandates”.
When a business requires me to wear a mask, they immediately see the back of my head leaving their business.
Thank you ggg and Mrs Jone!!!
Who are the people that come in closest contact with our face? Answer: Dentists.
Does anyone find it strange that dentists are the least demanding in mask compliance?
I’ve been going through a lot of dental/gum work for the past six months. From periodontists to dentists, never a problem when I’m in the waiting room (mask down to my lower lip & no hand soap) or in their office (no mask). I have conversations with them, ask a lot of questions about treatments, and surprisingly most have not been jabbed.
Has any dental office been declared a source of transmission? Not to my knowledge. I haven’t heard of any dental office being shut down.
Conclusion: the virus is in the air, it clings to our clothes and our skin, it enters our house when we open the door and there isn’t a damn thing we can do about those aerial nanoparticles. The powers-that-be know it. Thus, this is not about a virus but about full control of the citizenry via chemical injections. RESIST.
Sunshine: Dentists have been absolutely fine through the whole scamdemic. Ask me how I know.
Dentists are being economically squeezed, along with other small businesses.
I agree. They had and still have quite a few cancellations.
At the beginning, it was patient fear. Then, it morphed into an economic issue as people were laid off, lost their jobs, as they were juggling with life necessities, dental not being of cheap cost. Add to that the inflation factor.
I put my name on a dental cancellation availability list. Last week, they called me and had two cancellations for that week and one for the week after. My problem for this particular appointment is the cost, $2,000. So, I declined as my true appointment is in January and I’m expecting incoming revenue planned to cover that expense.
It’s all Western Culture guys. I mentioned this in an earlier post and will reiterate it again. Today I had an epiphany and it has helped me to some degree. What we are seeing is hard to fathom either way. For several generations subversion has set into the Westernized Nations. We have been taught to essentially hate ourselves. So therefore I ask you what happens to a person who is treated like that? They certainly become erratic. We are in the midst of God, Mother Nature, Natural Law, Light, etc, etc working its magic. We are in the midst of a kill off. I believe some are responsible of it of course but most just don’t have clue. That’s ok, let them go. 🙁
We are essentially like an abused partner. In the grip of a violent (see Holland) gaslighting Narc.
I was amongst my students this week, they are now post graduates. I find wearing a mask 13 hours a day very difficult, I don’t have to wear it very much, but they, living in the capital city have been obliged for yearS now. For me it’s just a blip on my life, for them it’s a large part. What is shocking, is they are the LAST generation to do a “proper” Baccalaureate.
as i write this i am watching Dutch state television . A talk show for the political/cultural elites. These people are either in a psychosis or stupid or both. At a bit of gaslighting to the mixture indeed.
O.O.O. they are so scared of riots.. Thats what you get when you try to inject people who dont want to be injected with a poison.
One of the guests is Mary Trump. With her family gossip/lies.. ” bestseller” . Thats what the Dutch elites consider literature now a days..
Cut the cord! Please!
The banality of evil. Its time to remember its origins.
Its not f*ckin banal. It’s bloody. Stop this shit now.
Take a look at Mr. Oliver’s books, including “Amazing Tales for Making Men out of Boys.”
Thanks, I just bought that for my grandchildren. I will be reading it with them.
1530, Menagerie:
Just ordered a copy. Looks good.
Thanks
Thank you for the tip. Looks like a good Christmas present.
On another thread I related a story I ran across about a fine man who teaches in Chicago who has formed what he has called a “Gentleman’s Club” for his young charges who are without a father in the picture.
He teaches them such things like manners, dressing properly, how to treat others with respect and dignity, how to conduct themselves, etc. The picture I saw of them showed youngsters of about 10 years, dressed in proper shirts and ties. They were beaming from ear to ear. Their mentor keeps extra shirts, ties, and jackets on hand for those n who can’t afford them. I predict he has, in effect, saved quite a few lives. He has walked the walk.
I’m so glad to see there is a book out there that addresses this issue. It is very much needed.
Oh wow, that is awesome!!
I thought so as well. The smile it brought to me was as broad as that on those boys.
It’s the simple things.
A group of fathers in Shreveport, Louisiana decided to gather at a HS that had recently suffered multiple fights with more than 20 arrests … they wander the Halls talking to the kids, making corny “dad jokes”.
The fights stopped immediately.
They are frank about the reality – a predominantly black school, filled with children from fatherless homes … they’re just setting a good example with kindness & clarity.
Zero social justice baloney – so pray for them … the RAT activist will likely sweep in to destroy the calm ASAP.
I loved that story of community in action, a coming together. A perfect example of starting to turn the tide at ground level. Truly wonderful.
Neil Oliver is the Joshua of our time. We must keep shouting and bring down the walls of Tyranny.
A must read is Robert Kennedy Jr.’s book jus out – The Real Anthony Fauci. It is all a lie – everything- and worse and has been for 40 years and Fauci has been in the middle and responsible for all – of course he had help and many could have stopped him. But the main drivers and CIA, DARPA, Military and China. It was always a bioweapon and so is the vaccine – over and out. It is not the first either. The 79 vaccines your kids have to have which started in 1980 when guess whose department was about to be closed down because there were virtually no material infectious diseases. Now 55% of Americans are ill with some condition up from 11% and average IQ has drop 7%, Americans are more out of shape than ever, most unhealthy of any developed nation, and last year life expectancy drop by 4 year (due to effects of lock downs NOT covid) due to the toxins in food (FDA), water, vaccines, medications and so on. So much fo public health over 50% of CDC revenues is vaccines and Fauci is a profit participant and 45% of FDA’s revenue come from Pharma. Your doing a Tony. Gates has been funding Fauci for the last 20 years and they have been destroying Africa with failed drugs.
Tucker Carlson’s hour interview with RFK Jr is also a must watch.
Robert Kennedy Jr on Tucker Carlson – YouTube
Locate Fauci. Arrest Fauci! Make Fauci SQUEAL!!!
Hang em high.
I am delighted that you mentioned Kennedy’s book as I am reading it after seeing him on Tucker.
Hands down the best information all in one place about the Evil Midget and how he and his friends have destroyed our country and civilization.
The little scumbag is more evil than Hitler, Stalin and Zamora combined and it is inconceivable he is still giving orders and not behind bars.
It was the biggest mistake ever made by the Trump administration to allow Faux Chi to maintain power. On the other hand what choice did they have?
They were tricked just like everyone else.
One other thing about the book. For all his brilliance Kennedy is no fan of our President Trump.
There are some nasty and uncalled for remarks about PT that are outright lies, including the claim that he said to drink bleach.
That being said this book is a must read that proves what a ScamDEMic this really is told by an insider.
And the biggest trickster of Trump was none other than traitor Mike Pence who installed Fauci and birks
among others.
This vile excuse for a human being is not behind bars (or even close to it), because “THEY” don’t want him there. He is “THEIR” tool.
At the time that Trump “selected” Fauci to run things, I read online that Trump really did not WANT Fauci, but that Pence did, and Trump succumbed. To the detriment of the whole USA, IMHO. And here we are–still stuck with Fau Chi—for the time being.
Kennedy has one agenda. He refuses to come out and openly say it, but he’s anti- ALL vaxxes. But you won’t find that on his website. He also ONLY associates with the massively antivax.
He also misquotes and twists statements by others…And I’ve done some very serious checking on his stuff, especially where he includes no citations or footnotes.
Tenpenney is the same…She claims to be the foremost expert on vaccinology, but she has no degree in virology, vaccinology, or immunology. Why not? She sells access to her “extensive vaccine library” for the low, low price of only $9.95/month, and includes a discount on her line of antivax vitamins.
There isn’t even one pro-vaccine article in there, and even articles that are neutral have their pro-vaccine pages “curated” by her.
Same with Mikovits. She violated almost every requirement of real science, falsified her data, and made wild claims, after a 10-lab test, funded by Fauci, that proved that her discovery of XMRV was due to a contaminated cell line (not her fault), and started claiming that the entire world blood supply was contaminated because of vaccines….Without ONE SHRED OF PROOF. REAL scientists don’t do that.
These people are grifters, and now have their moment in the sun, raking in millions. Not one has given up what Drs. Malone or McCullough or Kory or Gold have sacrificed for truth, and continue to do so.
Just be wise. Look at who has sacrificed and stood firm for the truth of these things, not those making a tidy pile of money. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
RFK, Jr.’s ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ #1 Overall on Amazon Bestseller List •
Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)
And thank you for this tip. I will order the book and listen to his interview with Tucker. I also read something yesterday about Peter Navarro’s book coming out in January, I believe. He said that one of the goals in writing the book was to expose and take out Fauci.
I don’t know where you got the idea it wouldn’t be out until Jan. In 2 seconds I checked Amazon.
In Trump Time by Peter Navarro is “available immediately” and is tagged a “bestseller.”
Great gift for Christmas, including for those who are clueless or mentally deranged.
Anyone who read the Village Voice in the 80s has known this man for the killer he is.
Yes, YES! YES!!!
Austria – The birthplace of Hitler.
You couldn’t make it up, separating citizens because some are a “sanitary” problem.
“(…) a “sanitary” problem.”. … that isn’t.
Kinda like “sanitary landfill “?
My church’s priest won’t touch this with a 10-foot pole. One of the most important spiritual issues of our time IMO. Thank you Sundance, very fine thoughts.
Most pastors refuse to address any of this. It has lead to much consternation for me. The only pastor I have heard address it is Pastor Danny Jones at Northlake Baptist Church in Georgia. I have been listening to him ever since.
https://youtu.be/0NROvEMNqx8
There are more who resist, but some do not say “vaccine,” etc, So their videos will still be on YouTube. Andy Woods, pastor’s point of view, TX; JD Farag, Hawaii; Calvary Chapel of the Harbor, CA, for some examples.
TG:
Yes, thank you. I am aware of them, as I have listened to Olive Tree views, Jan Markel since the Obama years. I should have clarified that Pastor Danny Jones is the only pastor that I have heard that has done the research on what the globalists are doing and how it relates to the end times. There are some others, but not enough. Note the date on Pastor Danny Jones Coronavirus sermon…..April 2020. He was the only one that I had heard connecting all the dots that early on.
We just got a new pastor who moved from Canada back to the states. Let me tell you he drops hints, he drops facts and you don’t have to read between the lines to know where he stands. He’s called out what they are doing in Canada and here.
Several pastors who are talking about this and live stream their sermons can be found here.
https://harbingersdaily.com/
LEAVE
RE what is happening in the churches–In the leaked John Podesta emails there is a discussion on how they were working on destroying the Catholic church.
Mission accomplished
Not all of us. The traditional community Pope Francis is trying to destroy is standing strong.
I would tend agree with you. The fastest growing religion in the US is EX Roman Catholics. Having converted to the RC religion as an adult, I find it next to impossible to even look at Francis “The Red” as the vicar of Christ on Earth. The Cardinals elected this guy in order to adhere to the current politically correct doctrine. This guy welcomes Pelosi and Biden*. What next? Gay marriage? 4th trimester abortions? When I think of what’s become of this religion, I’m reminded of something Ronald Reagan said about being an Ex Democrat. “I didn’t leave the Democrat Party, it left me.”
“The cardinals selected this guy.”
The Lavender Mafia actually.
I don’t know why Podesta is concerning himself with destroying the Catholic Church….the bishops are already doing a great job without his help.
Of course we don’t know what help the bishops receive or from whom, do we?
This Archbishop is fighting. Everyone should read this.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/archbishop-vigano-calls-for-action
Archbishop Vigano:
This Archbishop is fighting. Everyone should read this.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/archbishop-vigano-calls-for-action
Archbishop Vigano:
On the flip side of your comment Christianity is growing by leaps and bounds in China – strange but true. They see it as part of their new found freedoms and the headlines at the Washington Times recently read “Christian Surge in China Threatens Communists…And Democrats.”
I don’t understand why. The Vatican has been on their side at least since the Civil War.
Predicting the future is difficult, but one way this unfolds is that vaccine mandates unite the left and right, and we throw off these globalist monsters. A long shot perhaps, but I see signs in New York, Europe, and Canada. We’ll see. We need the police and army to join the protestors. Mainly we need their protection details to join us, and that means private security for the oligarchs. Scary times.
Canada? Puh=leeze. This is the most gelded, infantile nation in human history, parents will snitch to the government on their children for goodness sake. If you see a Canadian in a hurry, they are rushing to comply and please all knowing mommy government.
Any country that would disgrace Don Cherry in the way they did has no shame.
I just retired early (yesterday, in fact) rather than allow the provincial gov’t to force me to take “vaccines” against my will. I was a “front line worker” who worked with the public every day during this alleged pandemic. They even called people like me “heros” for going to work every day.
As of Nov . 22nd, I am not allowed to be in the workplace unless I’m at least double jabbed. Once that decision came down, I submitted my retirement papers. I was one of the lucky ones close enough to retirement to simply refuse to comply, and leave.
Not all of us are “gelded”. Not all of us are complaint. Many of us have been sounding the alarm and trying to inform others. Stop painting us all with your overly broad and hate-filled paintbrush.
Yeah I can see that. I have friends on the right and left that are on both sides of the vaccine mandate. One guy in particular I know is liberal, but he and his family are moving out of our blue state, because they are done.
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Rant on, maybe.
The first “no” is the best “no”.
It is so much easier to resist initial “small” diktat and encroachments and stop it right at the inception.
So maybe I’m kind of a difficult person, but I prefer to speak up immediately and say “no” with regard to these “small” unreasonable “requests” rather than start down slippery slopes.
NO to wearing a face mask when it’s stupid to do so.
NO to (AP wokist style manual revision as of last year) capitalizing “Black” as if it’s a real identity rather than black and white being convenient adjectives if you’re a cop and need to describe the perp who just burglarized a house.
NO to helpful social worker suggestions from a school to have a kid checked for ADD.
NO to identifying “gender” instead of “sex” on a government form. Ditto “race”. Ditto changing my language.
NO — or at the very least a resistant demand to know WHY — to any rule that makes no sense. At the very least, insist on knowing WHY. There might be satisfactory reason for a request… or there might not be, it might be just the first little come-on of a sales pitch, a con job, a user, or something even more nefarious.
When I am asked to fill out a written form and it uses the word ‘gender” I strike it through and write in “sex’. I get looks lol.
These are very dark times and I knew if President Trump lost the election, we would be in Revelation. The installed puppet hasn’t been in office for a year and it is very dark and disturbing.
The entire Western World is coming into totalitarianism. Our Constitution is the only thing holding us back unlike these other countries, all under the guise of “safety”. I don’t know how long the law of the land will hold out against this onslaught.
We are not in Revelation yet. But this is definitely prep for it. Setting the stage
Oh we are in that book even if it’s the firsr few chapters, God’s cleaning up His church, waking Her up, raising up those who are ready to fight for Truth
I see the western world fighting back in numerous countries now. Of course you have to look for it because the main stream media is not reporting it.
In 1976 I graduated from high school. It was a pinnacle moment not just for me, but my Mom.
She never finished high school.
I had 13 friends who, along with girl friends hung out at our house. Mom loved all like they were her own.
Day or night, they were welcome.
Desiderata was posted in our house.
Mom wasn’t a preachy person. But she was
filed with love and kindness.
From what you’ve written my Mom was a lot like your Mom. She also had Desiderata in our home growing up. I have had this family heirloom with me and hanging in my own home(s) since my parents passing in 1981.
Sadly, Trump will not speak out against the vaccines, since he is still bragging about how many lives he thinks? he saved via Warp Speed.
Wish he would promote HCQ and Ivermectin and speak out more forceably about mandates.
For all his good qualities, there certainly are some bad.
His near silence over the J6 political prisoners is quite disturbing.
But, he is our best chance imperfect as he most certainly is
Agree 100%.
Spot on!
Actually he has. He said, I believe, vaccines should not be mandated, but a choice and kids should not be vaccinated.
If he does come out with stronger statements he becomes a renewed focus of Covid deaths. The media and politicians will spin it that he is responsible for, misinformation, Covid deaths in adults and children. This will give the opposition the opportunity to take ownership of results away from Biden, Fauci, CDC, etc.
It would be much better for the medical community to make strong statements, with facts, to drive the conversation where it needs to be.
IMHO
Thank you for thinking deeply on this topic and writing about it here.
Mark41 is spot on. You nailed it, sir.
The biggest “tell” is that Operation Warp Speed is the one program started by our President Trump that was not demolished by the Bidenistas.
I believe I did see posted he did make a statement on the J6 prisoners.
I saw on Gateway Pundit last week he is still praising the vaccines, although no mandate and doesn’t believe children should get it.
I don’t believe I have heard PDJT denounce Fauci and Birx yet.
Plus I have questions about the rest of the task force – did anyone other than Scott Atlas stand up against them?
Also was Trump privy to the kowtowing that went on in the task force.
Has Peter Navarro disclosed the processes used in making a lot of wrong decisions by the task force as they kowtowed to Fauci and Birx?
PS Trump was correct in the beginning to focus on treatments but the MSM and Fauci destroyed that avenue.
Everyone who reads this needs to go to their county website and look up how to either work at their polling place or look at their local political openings. This begins at the precinct level with those who choose who gets on the ballots. Not all openings are filled. There are always empty openings, from tax collectors to committee members or poll watchers, so fill them!
Do NOT expect your local gop (or Dem) party to help; in Pennsylvania some gop will not even tell you who their Committee members are. It is the way they control their power. Every precinct has a Commmittee member who votes for who gets on the ballot and trust me, although by law we can become a Committee member (you have to get petition signatures, get your name on ballot then get elected first) they don’t want outsiders! Push.
Join local VFW or Gun Clubs, pull from that group of people and get votes, get local political positions and take back your town!!!
Everyone who reads this needs to go to their county website and look up how to either work at their polling place or look at their local political openings. This begins at the precinct level with those who choose who gets on the ballots.
Do NOT expect your local gop (or Dem) party to help; in Pennsylvania some gop will not even tell you who their Committee members are. It is the way they control their power. Every precinct has a Commmittee member who votes for who gets on the ballot and trust me, although by law we can become a Committee member (you have to get petition signatures, get your name on ballot then get elected first) they don’t want outsiders!
Join local VFW or Gun Clubs, pull from that group of people and get votes, get local political positions and take back your town!!!
Everyone who reads this needs to go to their county website and look up how to either work at their polling place or look at their local political openings. This begins at the precinct level with those who choose who gets on the ballots.
Do NOT expect your local gop (or Dem) party to help; in Pennsylvania some gop will not even tell you who their Committee members are. It is the way they control their power. Every precinct has a Commmittee member who votes for who gets on the ballot and trust me, although by law we can become a Committee member (you have to get petition signatures, get your name on ballot then get elected first) they don’t want outsiders!
Join local VFW or Gun Clubs, pull from that group of people and get votes, get local political positions and take back your town!!!
Exactly right. We are in the process of trying to take over our town GOP committee.
Be sure to become familiar with their bylaws and governing documents, and take special care to understand how those can and will be used against you newbies, and be smarter and more strategic. I speak from experience.
Post Rittenhouse MSM apoplectic narrative.
People will now think they have the right to defend themselves.
I’m not joking. They are harping on and on about the use of a gun in self defense.
There is a reason for the narrative.
Blow them away with this: “You know, since the police can’t protect you as they are called off, and since you’re afraid of us, evidently, you really should go out and buy a gun.”
“When seconds count, police are just minutes away.”
I am so glad that Sundance talks about the importance of Fellowship. That is just what makes the Tree House so great – it is one of the few places online where we can have such a thing.
Fellowship is also the most important aspect of recovery for the sick and suffering alcoholic and addict. Our meetings save our lives.
Without fellowship we simply cannot achieve sobriety and get back our spiritual and physical health.
That is why I cannot ever forgive the Catholic pastors in my part of NY who shut down our AA and NA meetings in March 2020 and in most cases never reopened them to this day.
Their initial excuse was the Covid regs but even when the Lockdown was lifted they refused to allow us back in their church basements and halls where we used to meet.
The heartlessness and hypocrisy of these “men of God” is not to be believed.
They don’t even pretend to have a legitimate excuse to keep us out. The truth is that they don’t like drunks or addicts.
We are not human beings to them.
I went so far as to contact the Cardinal and Archdiocese of NY to beg for their help for our groups and the hundreds of people that count on them for their very lives.
Their only answer was that there was nothing they could do, it was up to the local pastor.
Truth- the Catholic Church is not interested in the teachings or true fellowship of Christ. We have to look elsewhere.
Because they refuse to follow the most basic Christian tenets, these pastors have blood on their hands.
They are responsible for the deaths of the sick and suffering alcoholics and addicts who had no place to meet and who lost their lives because they could find no connection with their fellows.
Luckily we have found other places to meet and are gradually regrouping. Without our fellowship many of us will die from our addictions whether drugs or alcohol.
Thanks for the reminder about the AA meetings. I had forgotten about it. An elderly parishioner told me her friend refuses to come to Mass because some children attend unmasked. (this was before the vaccine approval for 5 and over). She also believes all children should be vaccinated against covid. I replied that her friend should stay home in her basement. I too was extremely disappointed with the church in my state (RI) acquiescing to the closures and other dictates.
The Catholic Church is complicit in protecting and hiding pedophiles in their organization.
Many many many men have been seriously psychologically harmed by pedophile priests in positions of trust.
Seneca, you and I have discussed this briefly before, and I am so sorry for your pain. I make no excuses, can’t and won’t. What so many bishops, priests, and all the way up to the Pope have done is a denial of the very mission of the Church.
But I do take exception to this statement.
Truth- the Catholic Church is not interested in the teachings or true fellowship of Christ. We have to look elsewhere.
While the bishops in Tennessee and Georgia shut down church buildings and denied people the Sacraments, many of our priests came up with extraordinary ways to serve their people, including taking Adoration to homes in the community. They let people know where they were coming, and how to prepare. The priests, in the case of my former parish, all three of them, arrived in one car while some who where volunteers in helping set up a small table and make the modest preparations came in another.
They set the table up in the yard for the monstrance with the Blessed Sacrament, while neighbors gathered for a short time of prayer and Adoration, and they moved through the community. This is only my favorite example. Here’s another, from the same parish. When fundraising efforts for a desperately needed new roof came back with many cries of need, lost jobs, terrible financial trials (early in the lockdown era) the priest got really creative.
In the most heartfelt letter I have ever seen from anyone, he eloquently described the needs his flock had, and not having the resources or ability to meet them on his own, cried out to his parishioners to band together to aid each other, not just monetarily, but with their labor and talents. And that is exactly what they did. To this day the parish has projects on their website where the people help each other out.
One family with a number of children were living in such substandard housing that their children were taken from them. It took months, but eventually people were able to help them improve their home and get their children back.
Your terrible experience is not the only one. There are just as many good stories too.
For reasons other than yours, I am angry at the bishops and hierarchy of the Church. I look around me and there are so many local churches filled with good and happy people, people who worship in joy, and I am often tempted to be a part of that, but I just simply cannot. I can never accept much of their theology, and I cannot leave Jesus in the Sacraments. If all else fails in the Church, as long as there are priests, Jesus is there, and he will not abandon us. I will not abandon him.
I am sorry Seneca. You, and all those turned away, are in my prayers.
Thank you for your eloquence, Menagerie! Seneca the Elder, this is what I would say to you if I had Menagerie’s writing ability. God bless you both.
It has not been unknown in ecclesiastical history that the leaders of the Church have lost sight of their own faith’s First Principles in exchange for a less inflammatory, more compromised political view and maintenance of the political status quo.
But not always: Pope Gregory VII certainly took no guff from the kings of Europe, famously bringing the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV to heel, and Pope Innocent III almost went out of his way to embarrass and chastise many of the rulers of his day for their misdeeds.
But a millenium has passed since their day: Pope John Paul II has come closest to them in challenging the political leaders of his day, but his era has also passed to one of compromise and even support of our benighted era’s political fads.
Your stories again show that the Church will survive spiritually in spite of the stupidities and cowardice of its leaders. I think of Franz Jaegerstaetter * a simple Austrian farmer who refused to fight for the Nazis “because of their Evil,” and was beheaded for his refusal. His bishop offered him all kinds of excuses as to why he should join the Nazi army.
He refused to support Evil.
The faithful and the average parish priests will do what is supposed to be done.
* An excellent movie by American director Terence Malick about Franz Jaegerstaetter came out 2 years ago: A Hidden Life is a beautiful, inspiring, questioning movie about this great, but still basically unknown, martyr.
The fact that there is a Pope was caused by politics. The Church was the most powerful political entity in the Western world for roughly 800 years. The Pope was the head of the Christian power structure back then. While the Pope has been seen as Christianity’s Holiest man in recent centuries, I am appalled at the behavior of the current occupant of that office. He is not only a Communist, but he pretty much has his head in a dark place most of the time. I hope this Pope will not last much longer. My apologies to all the good Catholics out there, there are plenty of collectivists among the Protestant Clergy as well, but that is the way I see it.
I consider myself a Christian and I was born with as much right to self determination as every other living creature on our planet, and I believe I got my natural rights from God. I pray every night for the worlds best example of a nation of free people and I believe God will help us if we can just keep up our faith in Him.
The development of the papacy – defined as the Bishop of Rome being the head of all the ancient churches scattered throughout the Roman Empire – took literally centuries.
Yes, there have been good popes and corrupt ones and crazy ones and murderous ones throughout the centuries: what is fascinating is that the Church has survived human idiocies, its theology remained intact, despite whoever was at the top.
Pope John Paul II had everything right, as did Benedict XVI, now retired in his 90’s. But yes, this character has gone awry. Despite him and his misguided politics, so far he has not tried to change the basics of our beliefs.
Dear Menagerie,
From the bottom of my heart I thank you for your brilliant and compassionate response. When it comes to following the teachings of Christ you are someone who “walks the walk” and follows His principles in “all your affairs.”
I also can never thank you enough for the work that you do here at the Fellowship of the Tree House. I can’t even imagine how you get done all that you do on a daily basis here and in your own life. You are an amazing and powerful example.
Please know that it gives me no pleasure to criticize and condemn the Catholic Church as I have been wont to do these past dark months. It is certainly a pillar of Western civilization and as you point out, certain of the clergy have done much good even in these troubled times.
That being said, the behavior of the clergy in downstate NY has left much to be desired when it comes to the care of their parishioners during the time of covid.
The alcoholics and drug addicts who used the church basements and halls are not the only ones that have been cast out. Perhaps even more cruel is what they did to the senior citizens who no longer have their weekly Bingo games to look forward to. For many of the elderly in our communities, this was their most important event of the week where they could get out of the house and socialize with others.
As far as the religious aspect of all this- what I can’t bear is the utter hypocrisy of those who are supposed to be the representatives of Jesus and who are charged with preaching the Gospel. It was Jesus Himself who said faith without works is dead and who told His followers to help the sick and suffering.
It has been my experience that religion is for people who don’t want to go to hell while spirituality is for those who have already been there.
In any event, I know that the good Lord will never let us down and I am extremely grateful for having discovered this particular online fellowship where the best people come to share their experience, strength and hope.
Thank you, Sundance and company for all that you do and I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving. We do have a lot to be grateful for.
It has been my experience that religion is for people who don’t want to go to hell while spirituality is for those who have already been there.
Those are perhaps the most important words I have read in years. Thank you Sir.
Thank you- but I first heard this stated in the rooms of AA. I have always felt that God speaks through the mouths of alcoholics and addicts at their meetings.
Regardless of source thanks for sharing 🙂
As yourself, I too was subjected to what is know as “the wisdom of the rooms” very early on. It was an explanation of a concept that would/could baffle many at a critical time in their life.
The Plandemic, as it has been called, has reaped havoc in many groups and is not done yet. As you mentioned with regards to fellowship. I’m afraid that although it was as good port in a storm the Zoom aspects are having an effect of which the residuals will be OUR rapacious creditor. DDAGTAM!
Thanks for your contributions to us all through this venue, and to those whose labor provides the opportunity.
Godspeed to all.
Thank you Seneca. I myself have been pretty full of criticism and condemnation of Church officials.
Can’t wholeheartedly agree with your religion/spirituality comment though. I’ve seen it before and it sounds impressive but for most people it’s just a cop out. I’ll take Jesus in the Sacraments, and for that I need the Catholic Church and her priests.
Thank you for the fine compliments, which I am not nearly deserving of. If I have any virtues at all, they come to me through frequent Confession, and reception of the Body of Christ. Everything I have comes from that.
Menagerie- if I ever do return to the Church it will be because of people like you and a few others that I know. Your light shines on us all.
May the good Lord bless you and keep you always.
Amen!
And check out Archbishop Vigano below! He RAWKS! 🙂
This Archbishop is fighting. Everyone should read this.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/archbishop-vigano-calls-for-action
Archbishop Vigano:
This is a better link to the Archbishop’s (former Apostolic Nuncio to the USA) October 20, 2020 letter to President Trump. I missed it then He lays out the case with great accuracy for what is happening.
https://freenorth.news/2020/11/01/read-full-letter-archbishop-vigano-outlines-scary-plans-for-great-reset/
Menagerie and others- to our point about the Catholic church et al, I came across this terrific article at American Thinker.
I have never been much of an apocalyptic thinker or prone to see heavenly forces everywhere writ large on the canvas of history.
God plays the long game, and history is littered with fools who presumed to know and tell others exactly what God was up to in the course of human events. I don’t aspire to be one of them.
But for me, there was immediately, and remains, something noticeably different about this COVID phenomenon.
For starters, there is the never-before-in-history decision of the worldwide Catholic Church, to say nothing of the worldwide Anglican communion, to shut its doors and abandon the flock out of the fear of mortal death, which the Bible plainly tells us is Satan’s stock in trade.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/11/covid19_and_the_smoke_of_satan.html
As believers, what do they have to fear?
See my comments below!
Their only answer was that there was nothing they could do, it was up to the local pastor.
That is almost as big a lie as “I’m from the gvt and I’m here to help you”
The Catholic church is possibly the most hierarchical organization ever to exist.
I’m so thankful you found other places to meet. My church of many decades has become a monument to man’s desire for grandiosity and opulence. The money spent on our campus could feed the needy and homeless in my community for decades. I haven’t attended since the covid madness began.
Well said in all. I’m so sorry to hear about the loss of your fellowship, but happy to hear that you are regrouping. It is the damage in relationships that originally starts people on those damaging paths. I’m sure you will be successful in your regroup!
Matt, can we get an updated CW2 Cube?
https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/the-cw2-cube-mapping-the-meta-terrain-of-civil-war-two/133507
Thanks for the link, I saw it when it came out in 2010 over at WRSA. I wonder how the new ‘othering’ of covid vaxed vs non will figure into the cube. Will the vax status add a new dimension to the cube, making it a totally different polygon?
That is the challenge, is it not? One solution includes connecting with others who have arrived at the same conclusion as oneself that the massive mRNA vaccination operation is harmful to humanity and seek to stop the global operation. Maintaining connectivity to those who are “all in” on the covid vaccines (victims of the well coordinated superior fear porn campaign), and worse, continue to say, do, and posture against the “unvaccinated” because they selflessly “care” about the whole community and are “kind” to the whole community by doing the “right” thing and getting “vaccinated” (because the research showing death and disability from the “vax” continues to be censored) must be measured against the psychological harm of the continued verbal and non verbal abuse. Each human has the right to self preservation. No abuse is acceptable. Time for new connections.
Yeah, But how do you find such connections in a blue county? I am a stranger in a strange land
I find that continuing to behave like a sane adult has opened the path for others to tentatively admit that they are too. Just refusing to kneel to the lunacy, not wear the face diaper, not grovel where told to does wonders. As soon as you are seen by the other normals they start to gravitate toward you and soon you find that you are not as alone as it seemed.
I found that as well the minute I landed back in America after an absence of 20 years. Red, Blue…no matter which state. It was and remains a very disquietening feeling.
Spoiler alert: God wins.
This excellent. Thank you, SD.
The most remarkable thing about all of this to me is that this “potion” has never been tested nor approved. It never underwent any clinical trial. It is an experimental mode of therapy which has never been tried in humans and, when tried in other animals, never worked. It killed hundreds of ferrets, and it has now killed tens of thousands of people while permanently and irreversibly injuring hundreds of thousands more.
Yet, the government agencies worldwide which are supposed to be safeguarding public health are doing everything in their power to help Big Pharma make more money. Up to and including changing their terminology to deceptively support their elaborate system of lies. They deceptively use “tests” to manufacture “cases” out of millions of healthy people.
They declare that vast numbers of people are dying for this reason, yet the death totals are not going up. They’re fiddling with the statistics, yet they’re not doing even that very well …
In your lifetime of experience, has there ever been “a virus” that was treated in this manner? Have we ever before ruled out every treatment except one? Have we ever declared, also, that billions of dollars in public money is to be spent on another, also untested potion, without any legislative action to approve the spend?
No, no, no, no, no. It doesn’t take particular intelligence to recognize a ruthless international scam, and the critical need to fight back hard enough to STOP IT.
None of these people are working for your interests. They don’t give a damn about you. If you die, they only care that, magically (“why??”), no one is allowed to sue them.
Very well stated. Thank you.
You are still operating under the mistaken hope that what they claim is what they intended. It isn’t. This was tested and proven to work for the goals they really want. They are evil. Accept that completely and the rest makes sense.
This may sound terrible but I think we should wear the Jewish star on our sleeve in advance of the government making those of us not “fully vaccinated” having to display a sign that we are unclean. I cannot understand the Austrians easy compliance.
Also . . . . sewing a yellow patch with the cross of Christ on one’s shirt. Don’t know if the message would be clear enough to mean anything though. It would take a group effort to have any impact.
One person saying “Let’s Go Brandon” is dismissed. A crowd chanting “Let’s Go Brandon” gives it wings to fly around the globe.
Since day one I have written JEW BADGE on all my muzzle masks in case I have to wear them on occasion.
I openly spoke the following question to my colleagues and students at my Catholic school, when all of this idiocy began:
“Can you show me in the New Testament exactly when and whither Jesus – OR HIS DISCIPLES – ran away in fear of the sick?”
I emphasized “His disciples” precisely because that is what we are supposed to be!
Nevertheless, rather than following Our Lord’s obvious example, our leadership shrugged and continued with its obedience to the Chinese Flu Mania and separated students and faculty constantly under the Communist pretense of “wanting everyone to stay healthy.”
Which of course means: “Wanting everyone to obey unconstitutional and immoral regulations!”
Greetings Ausonius!
This wonderful article is right on point to all we are discussing this morning. I think you will enjoy it.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/11/covid19_and_the_smoke_of_satan.html
Many thanks! Things have become hectic and I am just now catching up with things! I hope to read the article later tonight!
Stay strong up there in northern New York state!
we are also seeing faith-based organizations, churches, buying into the fear.
Yes this is happening. If you are a believer in God as I am and I think many of you are: what’s to fear? I have friends that are probably still hiding under their bed for fear of Covid. It’s ridiculous. I’m a child of God. Do I act like it 24/7? Heck no I don’t, but I trust His Word. The only thing to fear is God.
I know grand parents who avoid seeing their precious grandchildren out of fear of catching this virus. Unthinkable!!!
My boss asked me if I was fearful about opening up the business fully in a month or so as I am unvaccinated. I laughed and said no.
Turns out some of my co-workers want to quit over opening up. Every one of them is fully jabbed.
This is another message all, especially children should hear. By Baz Luhrmann, it might be titled “Sunscreen” but that is camouflage.
Thank you Sundance, on this Sunday morn your words give me strength to continue to show my family by example to not comply with civil disobedience and to be ready for non civil disobedience should that be necessary.
I am reluctant to share personal info in order to limit my exposure to the government. But I think this is important to this discussion.
A few weeks ago we answered the call of the wild and went to the great rocky mountain west for wild game. We were not sure what to expect. We live in a rural area with small towns. Most people here go on about their lives and you don’t notice much of anything different.
We were mostly in rural farm type areas. The only time I recall seeing a mask was the employees at the walmart where we got our last supplies. Local restaurants where we stopped and all other businesses were going about business as usual.
Fuel was pushing four dollars a gallon in places but otherwise it was one of the best trips we have been on.
I think this is why we are not seeing more uprising here. People are going on with their lives. When the government tries to push the issue we will see swift and decisive action taken by the people.
Same in my area.
Thank you, Texas midget. I believe we have a great neighbor in the State of Texas and I am pleased you came to visit us this fall. I hope you had a good hunt and were successful. We love to hunt in the Rocky Mountains and we believe in fair chase game hunting. Come back again soon and I hope to visit Texas soon myself. There I find minded people with the best sense of humor and I always come home with a good feeling about how free and humble people should be living.
Just Say No!
This is “their” globalist Brave New World and pushing (Soma) …a “vaccine” that has been a pre-prepared chemical for our own good and the good of mankind. All produced by Bill Gates, a man who stated in 2008 that if their vaccination policies work they can reduce the worlds population by 15%…huh?
The good news. Son and I went to dinner yesterday (Mexican) not a person in the restaurant with a mask on and went though the grocery (Publix) 90% no masks. Had to go through the drug store (Walgreens) 70% no masks. While eating dinner there was a college game on TV Alabama v Arkansas there were a 100 thousand people, there were no masks, the only masks were people who worked for the NCAA, they are part of the cabal.
Many are Just Saying No! But again if you watch the enemy MSM they are selling the con in their attempt to pull off, “look everybody’s doing it” …crap.
Wake up! …and Just Say No!
“Everywhere and always each of us must be able to utter that simple syllable of freedom:
NO!
This is the marrow of ungovernability and thus the essence of just social systems.
Cultivate this ability.
If you find places where you cannot respond in the negative, change them. Rise against them. Pull down the structures that support them.
“because i don’t want to” is always enough reason. always.”
When logic fails, it would seem those who force injections onto others bodies, have another purpose, no?
“It is puzzling how many in leadership cannot see the danger in social and spiritual distance when the bond of fellowship is needed more than ever.”
Answer: The leaven has indeed worked its way through the whole batch. The lack of critical thinking has purposefully inflicted on us by the nationalized education system has affected every part of society.
I am continually shocked by people who declare themselves followers of Christ and yet also accept without question all information fed to them by the world’s systems.
Because of this many people no longer read the bible but just trust what the pastor/priest/rabbi tells them.
As a whole we have become biblically and spiritually illiterate and incompetent.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/vea4oV9dhJ9j/
These folks are discussing the abusive nature of government as it relates to social contagion.
I think it might fit with the ideas discussed above.
Might even be worth a front page story.
I agree!
A conversation which needs to be had at forum of elected officials who are of an open mind (if they exist)!
Fair enough. I too I’m so sick of stupid people they only seem to get worse. Whether perpetuated by a worship of technology or satisfaction of base human desire, the meaning of humanity and the understanding of the corresponding responsibility are all but gone. So what is the deal?
First and foremost can you really identify the situation? Not merely through vain intellectual philosophy or human reasoning. Is it something else beyond your five senses. Perhaps a deception for which there is no temporal antidote. The resistance to such understanding being the foundation of the lies causing willful ignorance and stupidity.
So that naturally (and or supernaturally) brings in the question of truth “the thing of it is”so to speak.
The true meaning of the word apocalypse is unveiling or revealing. Like it or not he is the Alpha and Omega. The Way The Truth and The Life. Fellowship with true believers evangelize those you can and leave the rest of their own devices amen
There will be a tipping point. I can feel it. I don’t know what’s going to happen but it’s going to be big and I’m not so sure there will be any winners.
I don’t buy into some of the argument in this thread. Too many people in power/influence are acting in ways that are counter-intuitive and/or so blatantly opposed to normal, western moral precepts that one is forced to consider that there is a deeper current moving these people. I don’t believe it is only power for the sake of power or endless wealth aggregation. Further, I don’t believe it’s simply blackmail on a massive scale. It’s something else. The collective conscience doesn’t bend at this large a scale.
The question has to be asked: why is Marxism/Socialism so attractive to these people? What is it that is scaring them into a world view that motivates them to desire the destruction of an entire culture, political system, economic engine? Why is there so much vitriolic hate infused into this worldview? What message are they sharing with one another?
When you realize that the entire Western world has been indoctrinating college kids into Marxism/Socialism for years and years, it’s not so hard to understand. Many have graduated and worked themselves into positions of power in the media outlets and governments where they have influenced and intimidated their elders primarily by using the race card to make them feel guilty and ashamed anytime they try to counter Marxist doctrine with common sense and love for their fellow human beings.
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It is a confluence of things, for many of which preparations were made, the soil tilled, for years. Those who have planned this may be small in number but for a very long time they cleverly set in motion inducements, psyops, blackmail, infiltration of institutions, and multifaceted propaganda tailored to appeal to different interests and interest groups — while waiting for the right time to go whole-hog.
I also suspect that this was all to be less obvious and more gradual but Trump threw a monkey wrench into the works and the hopes and dreams of the cabal — a relatively small club of very wealthy power-brokers.
Finally, I do suspect that in this club, they are true believers. Too many people on the planet. A plan for the “select” to live well in some kind of futuristic utopia under a one-world government, and move on to the next phase of human history.
When you have a culture raised on electronic babysitters and no faith teachings, this is what you get. The only reference they have is of this immediate world. Therefore, they know nothing of the promise of Jesus Christ.
One of the saddest things I experienced during this past two years was when I was working in the field in our county for the Census in August and September 2020. Several times the resident was an elderly widow or widower living alone out in the country. They would get tears in their eyes and want to have a “sit down” conversation on their porch. Because it had been so long since they had a visit with anyone face to face. This is what we have come to – it is definitely not Christian ideology.
Whatever happens don’t blame yourself.
I am one of those persons still behind enemy lines in Chicago. You would be shocked to see the number of people who have become human sheeps just doing as they are told. There are still numerous people walking around in masks outside, driving in their cars, masking their young children. The unwillingness to challenge Beetlejuice the mayor aka Lori Lightfoot remains unbelievable.
Jelly Belly Pritzker the governor is not much better continuing with the indoor mask mandate even as both he and Beetlejuice do as they please. All they care about is pushing the vaccine especially Beetlejuice. She’ll comment about Kyle Rittenhouse but says nary a peep about the weekly shootings, car jackings and lootings taking place.
Thanks for pointing that out. And here I was thinking maybe he does a bit of woodworking.
At one of the announced but failed antifa riots yesterday black-bloc-clad antifa members displayed opened umbrellas on which they had written “MANDATE and VACCINATE.”
Here are 2 things that go with this plea for the love of God to shine from the Life of His Life in His people. The first is a report from a European bureaucracy that collects information about death and adverse reactions to the fake vaccines:
EXCLUSIVE: European Medicines Agency Data Shows 1,163,356 Adverse Drug Reactions and 30,551 Fatalities by COVID-19 Vaccinations
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/european-medicines-agency-data-shows-1163356-adverse-drug-reactions-30551-fatalities-covid-19-vaccinations/
The 2nd is from a man named Whittaker Chambers. Mr. Chambers was a hardcore bolshevik communist until the LORD laid a finger on his forehead and changed his mind from godless communism to worshipful Christian piety. In 1952 Random House published Mr. Chambers’s autobiography under the title, Witness. In that book the FOREWORD IN THE FORM OF A LETTER TO MY CHILDREN introduces a mostly unsuspecting world to the genuine horrors of communism. There are no descriptions in the English language of communism and communists more eloquent or compelling. Here are the links to the FOREWORD. You can read it all in 20 minutes. You will remember it for the rest of your life. The question Mr. Chambers asks is: God or man? Christ or antichrist?
https://wondermag.org/witness-a-letter-to-my-children/
https://wondermag.org/witness-letter-to-my-children-pt-2/
Godspeed to every soul who fights to live in the Holy Spirit of God’s goodwill and determined purpose.
One quibble with the wording in this article: Churches have are not buying into the scam. They are selling to it. The churches have been sold to the government. The fake refugee money, the fake charity industry, and all the other ways the government has shifted tax dollars to churches has made church leadership willing sellers.
This may seem like a mincing of words but it really is an important distinction.
Churches have gone the same way as the corrupt politicians
Money ? is all that matters
The totalitarian is an empty vessel filled with other peoples thoughts that divides us by skin color… by vaccinated and unvaccinated, by Religion, by sexual orientation.
Kumbaya my friends, kumbaya.
Until the root cause of this societal division is addressed honestly it will continue. We need to put up the tambourines and start banging the drums.
Covid is a Scamdemic. Debating what we should put up with to deal with Covid accepts a false premise.
Saying ‘vaccines’ should be a personal choice is enabling. Saying ‘no mandates’ without saying ‘vaccines’ are unnecessary and don’t work, kill and maim is enabling. ‘Being allowed’ to worship is an acceptable risk because it brings us together is enabling. And on and on……
In a few months infants and toddlers will start being jabbed.
Happy Xmas. Covid is over. If you want it.
Covid is over now.
With apologies to John Lennon
“When encountering an institution, business or enterprise that demands vaccinated status as a precondition; we will not participate or lend credibility…”
Precisely why I left my Bible study group which to this day continues to provide a Zoom meeting alternative for the unvaxxed or uber-fearful.
Bleakness and hope.
There will never be a Papal imprimatur for this letter, but the undeniable truth doesn’t need one.
It certainly dovetails with SD’s article. This archbishop would make a fine pope.
OPEN LETTER
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
DONALD J. TRUMP
Sunday, October 25, 2020
Solemnity of Christ the King
Mister President,
Allow me to address you at this hour in which the fate of the whole
world is being threatened by a global conspiracy against God and humanity. I
write to you as an Archbishop, as a Successor of the Apostles, as the former
Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America. I am writing to you in the
midst of the silence of both civil and religious authorities. May you accept
these words of mine as the “voice of one crying out in the desert” (Jn 1:23).
As I said when I wrote my letter to you in June, this historical moment
sees the forces of Evil aligned in a battle without quarter against the forces of
Good; forces of Evil that appear powerful and organized as they oppose the
children of Light, who are disoriented and disorganized, abandoned by their
temporal and spiritual leaders.
Daily we sense the attacks multiplying of those who want to destroy
the very basis of society: the natural family, respect for human life, love of
country, freedom of education and business. We see heads of nations and
religious leaders pandering to this suicide of Western culture and its Christian
soul, while the fundamental rights of citizens and believers are denied in the
name of a health emergency that is revealing itself more and more fully as
instrumental to the establishment of an inhuman faceless tyranny.
A global plan called the Great Reset is underway. Its architect is a
global élite that wants to subdue all of humanity, imposing coercive measures
with which to drastically limit individual freedoms and those of entire
populations. In several nations this plan has already been approved and
financed; in others it is still in an early stage. Behind the world leaders who
are the accomplices and executors of this infernal project, there are
unscrupulous characters who finance the World Economic Forum and Event
201, promoting their agenda.
The purpose of the Great Reset is the imposition of a health
dictatorship aiming at the imposition of liberticidal measures, hidden behind
tempting promises of ensuring a universal income and cancelling individual
debt. The price of these concessions from the International Monetary Fund
will be the renunciation of private property and adherence to a program of
vaccination against Covid-19 and Covid-21 promoted by Bill Gates with the
collaboration of the main pharmaceutical groups. Beyond the enormous
economic interests that motivate the promoters of the Great Reset, the
imposition of the vaccination will be accompanied by the requirement of a
health passport and a digital ID, with the consequent contact tracing of the
population of the entire world. Those who do not accept these measures will
be confined in detention camps or placed under house arrest, and all their
assets will be confiscated.
Mr. President, I imagine that you are already aware that in some
countries the Great Reset will be activated between the end of this year and
the first trimester of 2021. For this purpose, further lockdowns are planned,
which will be officially justified by a supposed second and third wave of the
pandemic. You are well aware of the means that have been deployed to sow
panic and legitimize draconian limitations on individual liberties, artfully
provoking a world-wide economic crisis. In the intentions of its architects, this
crisis will serve to make the recourse of nations to the Great Reset
irreversible, thereby giving the final blow to a world whose existence and very
memory they want to completely cancel. But this world, Mr. President,
includes people, affections, institutions, faith, culture, traditions, and ideals:
people and values that do not act like automatons, who do not obey like
machines, because they are endowed with a soul and a heart, because they are
tied together by a spiritual bond that draws its strength from above, from that
God that our adversaries want to challenge, just as Lucifer did at the beginning
of time with his “non serviam.”
Many people – as we well know – are annoyed by this reference to the
clash between Good and Evil and the use of “apocalyptic” overtones, which
according to them exasperates spirits and sharpens divisions. It is not
surprising that the enemy is angered at being discovered just when he believes
he has reached the citadel he seeks to conquer undisturbed. What is surprising,
however, is that there is no one to sound the alarm. The reaction of the deep
state to those who denounce its plan is broken and incoherent, but
understandable. Just when the complicity of the mainstream media had
succeeded in making the transition to the New World Order almost painless
and unnoticed, all sorts of deceptions, scandals and crimes are coming to light.
Until a few months ago, it was easy to smear as “conspiracy theorists”
those who denounced these terrible plans, which we now see being carried out
down to the smallest detail. No one, up until last February, would ever have
thought that, in all of our cities, citizens would be arrested simply for wanting
to walk down the street, to breathe, to want to keep their business open, to
want to go to church on Sunday.
Yet now it is happening all over the world,
even in picture-postcard Italy that many Americans consider to be a small
enchanted country, with its ancient monuments, its churches, its charming
cities, its characteristic villages. And while the politicians are barricaded
inside their palaces promulgating decrees like Persian satraps, businesses are
failing, shops are closing, and people are prevented from living, traveling,
working, and praying. The disastrous psychological consequences of this
operation are already being seen, beginning with the suicides of desperate
entrepreneurs and of our children, segregated from friends and classmates,
told to follow their classes while sitting at home alone in front of a computer.
In Sacred Scripture, Saint Paul speaks to us of “the one who opposes”
the manifestation of the mystery of iniquity, the kathèkon (2 Thess 2:6-7). In
the religious sphere, this obstacle to evil is the Church, and in particular the
papacy; in the political sphere, it is those who impede the establishment of the
New World Order.
As is now clear, the one who occupies the Chair of Peter has betrayed
his role from the very beginning in order to defend and promote the globalist
ideology, supporting the agenda of the deep church, who chose him from its ranks.
Mr. President, you have clearly stated that you want to defend the
nation – One Nation under God, fundamental liberties, and non-negotiable
values that are denied and fought against today. It is you, dear President, who
are “the one who opposes” the deep state, the final assault of the children of
darkness.
For this reason, it is necessary that all people of good will be
persuaded of the epochal importance of the imminent election: not so much
for the sake of this or that political program, but because of the general
inspiration of your action that best embodies – in this particular historical
context – that world, our world, which they want to cancel by means of the
lockdown. Your adversary is also our adversary: it is the Enemy of the human
race, He who is “a murderer from the beginning” (Jn 8:44).
Around you are gathered with faith and courage those who consider
you the final garrison against the world dictatorship. The alternative is to vote
for a person who is manipulated by the deep state, gravely compromised by
scandals and corruption, who will do to the United States what Jorge Mario
Bergoglio is doing to the Church, Prime Minister Conte to Italy, President
Macron to France, Prime Minster Sanchez to Spain, and so on. The
blackmailable nature of Joe Biden – just like that of the prelates of the
Vatican’s “magic circle” – will expose him to be used unscrupulously,
allowing illegitimate powers to interfere in both domestic politics as well as
international balances. It is obvious that those who manipulate him already
have someone worse than him ready, with whom they will replace him as soon
as the opportunity arises.
And yet, in the midst of this bleak picture, this apparently unstoppable
advance of the “Invisible Enemy,” an element of hope emerges. The adversary
does not know how to love, and it does not understand that it is not enough to
assure a universal income or to cancel mortgages in order to subjugate the
masses and convince them to be branded like cattle. This people, which for too
long has endured the abuses of a hateful and tyrannical power, is rediscovering
that it has a soul; it is understanding that it is not willing to exchange its
freedom for the homogenization and cancellation of its identity; it is beginning
to understand the value of familial and social ties, of the bonds of faith and
culture that unite honest people. This Great Reset is destined to fail because
those who planned it do not understand that there are still people ready to take
to the streets to defend their rights, to protect their loved ones, to give a future
to their children and grandchildren. The leveling inhumanity of the globalist
project will shatter miserably in the face of the firm and courageous
opposition of the children of Light. The enemy has Satan on its side, He who
only knows how to hate. But on our side, we have the Lord Almighty, the God
of armies arrayed for battle, and the Most Holy Virgin, who will crush the head
of the ancient Serpent. “If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Rom 8:31).
Mr. President, you are well aware that, in this crucial hour, the United
States of America is considered the defending wall against which the war
declared by the advocates of globalism has been unleashed. Place your trust in
the Lord, strengthened by the words of the Apostle Paul: “I can do all things in
Him who strengthens me” (Phil 4:13). To be an instrument of Divine
Providence is a great responsibility, for which you will certainly receive all the
graces of state that you need, since they are being fervently implored for you
by the many people who support you with their prayers.
With this heavenly hope and the assurance of my prayer for you, for
the First Lady, and for your collaborators, with all my heart I send you my
blessing.
God bless the United States of America!
+ Carlo Maria Viganò
Tit. Archbishop of Ulpiana
Former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America
While I agree with most of what Neil Oliver has said, he is in error on two points.
The worst religious persecution is of Christians primarily in Muslim countries. If one looks at the Open Doors UK World Watch List 2021 at the top twelve, nine are Muslim countries and two, Nigeria and India, part Muslim. I am not aware of a single nominal Christian country in the world where Muslims are persecuted. Indian Christians are persecuted by Muslims but even more so by vicious Hindu fundamentalists.
While the Uyghur Muslim persecution receives some media attention, the persecution of Christians in China likely far overshadows this but is largely hidden and unreported. Open Doors says that China is moving up the list closer to the top countries. China may well already belong in the group of worst countries. This despite foundational Christian teaching rejecting violence and promoting peace making. Christians are not in the business of overthrowing governments – that is God’s prerogative alone. That is why Christmas is celebrated as the birth of the Prince of Peace.
I like this guy.