I recently started a new church and noticed that no one there wears masks, or practices sociall distancing. I've been told by many Christians that God will not protect someone from Covid if they refuse to follow the CDC guidelines.
Well, that's a load of baloney. Chapter and verse, please. Masking and social distancing are just "safety theater," nonsensical mandates intended to keep people feeling they are in jeopardy and willing, then, to yield up their liberties and freedoms with little thought. There's nothing quite like fear to make people irrational and thoughtless.
I was told that you can have all the faith in the world that God will protect you from this deadly disease. But if you don't use wisdom, you are not being a true Christian.
Don't you know that God has given each of us immune systems that, generally, are far better at fighting diseases like the Wuhan virus than any vaccine? Of healthy people under sixty, 99.5% recover from the virus and upwards of 50% of infected people never know they were infected. The Wuhan virus is deadly among a comparatively small group of people who are vulnerable to it as a result of "co-morbidities," pre-existing health issues, that complicate and exaggerate the effects of infection. In fact, many of the fatalities attributed to the Wuhan virus are actually from other things entirely. A few months ago, there was a boy of thirteen in the province of Alberta who was spotlighted by the pop media as an example of the terrible danger children are in from the virus. He had died, ostensibly, from the virus, but in actuality from stage four brain cancer which his family had to go on social media to make clear. The boys parents were particularly enraged by the blatant false reporting of the pop media that were using the tragedy of the loss of their son as a Wuhan virus propaganda point.
Anyway, there are far more people being infected by the Wuhan virus and recovering from it without serious incident who are not Christians than who are. They don't acknowledge or love God and yet they are okay. How does this work with the "God won't protect you from this deadly disease" stuff you've been told?
Because taking active steps to help prevent the spread of Covid is helping and caring for your neighbor. Therefore if you do not do these things, you are sinning. Is this true?
Nope. It's total nonsense, really. Neither masking nor distancing have a basis in well-researched data. It is by no means clear that doing either thing makes any material difference to the transmission of the virus. But it does keep you near-constantly aware that there is danger all around you from others which fosters fear and isolation and increasing, floating frustration and anger that the government is now urging you to direct at any who don't follow the government's mandates.
Do you drive a car? Do you know Christians who do? Every time a believer drives their car along a roadway occupied by other drivers, they put all those other drivers at risk (and vice versa). Any number of things can happen, causing an accident and serious harm or even death. A tire can blow, a tie-rod snap, brakes can fail, a driver can be surprised and frightened by something unexpected entering the roadway (animal, cyclist, person, boulders, etc.), or dangerously distracted, or maybe have a heart attack, or stroke. The list goes on. Driving a car is actually one of the most dangerous things people do on a regular basis. And since motorized vehicles took to the roads many MILLIONS of people have died worldwide - far more than have died from the Wuhan virus. Many more have been seriously injured and permanently maimed in road accidents. Daily, approximately 4000 people die in road accidents globally. But do you hear the same rotten moralizing about driving that you do about the virus? Not a peep. That's because the moralizing rhetoric isn't actually about health, about protecting people, but about making people follow the government's rules; it's about being compliant, an obedient drone.
So, no, it is not a sin if you don't go along, complying with the authoritarian mandates of governments slowly moving toward tyranny. As far as I'm concerned, the sin is on the side of those who engage in such specious moralizing toward Christian brethren who don't see things their way.
I want to go to church without a mask, but I'm afraid I'm going against the bible by not caring about my neighbor. I would only be not wearing a mask to church. Anywhere else, I will be. I just want to freely serve God and have faith that he will protect me, and actually breathe. But I'm so worried.
See above. There is no sin in not wearing a mask.
And if you haven't been vaccinated yet and are healthy, trust to your God-given immune system. The immunity it will give you is much superior to anything the vaccines achieve, longer-lasting and fuller in the spectrum of resistance to the virus. We know the vaccinated remain able both to be infected and to infect others, so there is no advantage to being vaccinated in these respects. Only if you are in the high-risk group with dangerous co-morbidities would the vaccines be of much use. But even then, there are very serious risks in being vaccinated, dangerous side-effects including myocarditis, pericarditis, stroke, heart attack, paralysis, ADE and death.
