Lutheran Rev. says 1st use of the law = yes to vax mandates
"Government...[is] meant to act like a good parent would over the people of the nation. That includes the application of medicine. I would say, since we do believe that illness + death are fundamentally not good things"
Including some more setup before we get to his main argument, since it is sincere and not just a hot take.
"Doctors function kind of as civil servants. They do first use of the law stuff"
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"I think we should understand that the government actually has a theological right to do this...I don't think it's authoritarian to make people get a vaccine any more than it's authoritarian to make a person drive on the right side of the road."
Addressing counter-arguments, he compares people against vaccine mandates to the farmers of Luther's day who revolted against their princes because they felt entitled to unique rights because they were Christians.
Cont'd: "There is space for civic and civil disobedience...We can talk about that at another time, though, because rejecting vaccines and masks and working against the government as it tries to protect the lives of the vulnerable just isn't a defensible theological take."
"I think that we speak about vaccinations wrongly when we talk about vaccines in terms of choice. We shouldn't be viewing things in terms of choice. We should be viewing things in terms of vocation, call, duty, responsibility. So get your 💉s...for the sake of your neighbors."
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DTS update: Chapel speaker Frank Glover intros students to Kimpa Vita, lionizing her without noting syncretist controversies (🧵 incoming).
Off the bat, he says of her: "Before Luther or before Calvin, there was a revolution." Both men died 100+ years before she was born.
It's hard to find trustworthy sources on this online, but from the Met Museum we see that Kimpa Vita, aka Dona Beatriz, was trained as a medium for spirits. Glover notes in his speech she claimed direct revelation from God. metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pwmn_4…
You can also see in this screenshot that Kimpa Vita believed, based on her direct revelation, that Jesus was born and baptized in the Kongo.
"The version of Christianity that I received had this very strong, you're not supposed to commune with the dead, basically...I really asked the question, why would it be so important for these oppressors to tell us not to connect with our ancestors?" Andre Henry
<Christianity does not prohibit you from "connecting" to your ancestors in the sense of knowing who they are and what they did in their lives. It does prohibit occult rituals to directly communicate with the dead. This discussion does not clearly make the distinction.>
Oh, we're not done.
Jo Luehmann says in Christianity, "pleasure is for whiteness...pleasure is divine...but for us [POC], work is divine...It's grooming theology."
"The COVID vaccine...may have a distant origin story in abortion, but that past has been reworked + redeemed into something that saves life. We can point to the vaccine and say: Jesus' redemption is kind of like that."
Youth pastors, pack it up. There's no beating this one.
"Each of us has had our story reworked by Jesus into new life. That's what it ultimately means to be pro-life. To be pro-life is to be pro-redemption. And to be pro-redemption, in my view, means being pro-vaccine."
Curtis Chang, "Redeeming Babel"
This, apparently, is seen as convincing rhetoric by authors such as John Piper and David French who have shared it.
...And that foreword ends with an endorsement of Eric Mason as a "transcendent voice," "above the fray," who doesn't "unnecessarily divide or confuse" like other Christians speaking on race.
"I look forward to sitting at his feet to listen and learn."
Quick stroll through memory lane. Dr. Mason is certainly not "above the fray," as he is given to fits of rage from the pulpit (watch to the end):