Friday, January 22, 2021

File under "Shocked but not surprised"


In case you can't recognize him under the muzzle he's wearing, this is Russell M. Nelson, president of the Church of the Really Long Name That Definitely Doesn't Include the Word Mormon -- and, according to the official pretense, the latter-day equivalent of Moses, Elijah, St. Peter, and Joseph Smith.

From the official news release:

In word and deed, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has supported vaccinations for generations. As a prominent component of our humanitarian efforts, the Church has funded, distributed and administered life-saving vaccines throughout the world. Vaccinations have helped curb or eliminate devastating communicable diseases, such as polio, diphtheria, tetanus, smallpox and measles. Vaccinations administered by competent medical professionals protect health and preserve life.

As this pandemic spread across the world, the Church immediately canceled meetings, closed temples, and restricted other activities because of our desire to be good global citizens and do our part to fight the pandemic.

Now, COVID-19 vaccines that many have worked, prayed, and fasted for are being developed, and some are being provided. Under the guidelines issued by local health officials, vaccinations were first offered to health care workers, first responders, and other high-priority recipients. Because of their age, Senior Church leaders over 70 now welcome the opportunity to be vaccinated.

As appropriate opportunities become available, the Church urges its members, employees and missionaries to be good global citizens and help quell the pandemic by safeguarding themselves and others through immunization. Individuals are responsible to make their own decisions about vaccination. In making that determination, we recommend that, where possible, they counsel with a competent medical professional about their personal circumstances and needs.

I like that "where possible" -- a tacit acknowledgement that competent and honest medical professionals are harder and harder to come by. About spiritual professionals it would be more charitable to remain silent.

You remember Moses, right? Good global citizen, that guy.

5 comments:

Bruce Charlton said...

1. Promoting an ethic of aspiring to be "good global citizens" is (here, now, 2021) a well-crafted Satanic snare.

2. How can anybody (let alone almost-everybody) be so asinine as to make statements that assume 'vaccines' are good? That is precisely analogous to saying 'drugs are good' or 'surgery is good'.

3. Whether or not vaccines are intrinsically-beneficial; the mRNA peck is Not a vaccine. This isn't a matter of opinion but of the universal definition until 2020 (look it up). It is an attempted genetic modification; (charitably) a medical 'treatment'.

4. I hope that this trend for the global leadership class to be photographed and filmed while having simulated medical procedures - in order to encourage the masses - does not continue and extend further, e.g. to include bowel cancer screening.

5. The corruption of the CJCLDS into an anti-Christian organisation was delayed compared with other large Christian denominations, but is now obvious and accelerating... Or it would be, if the church was not also simultaneously destroying-itself even more rapidly. ("Better a good global citizen than... shudder... a Mormon!")

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

All great points, Bruce, especially number 2. Making sweeping statements about "vaccination" as such is meaningless, but it allows Them to classify anyone who raises doubts about any specific vaccine (or, in this case, non-vaccine!) as a flat-earth "anti-vaxxer" who wants to bring back smallpox.

President Nelson, who had a distinguished medical career before becoming a full-time churchman, has absolutely no excuse for allowing his name to be associated with such rubbish.

A said...

Exodus 5:5

After speaking to the Pharaoh, Moses and Aaron went to Israel’s people and spoke to them. They told the people, “This is what the Pharaoh, the Legally Elected President, says: Let my people wear masks and have the thoughts of which I command.”

Bruce Charlton said...

BTW - "a distinguished medical career ... has absolutely no excuse for allowing his name to be associated with such rubbish."

As far as I can tell, a large majority of medics are among the most irrational and zealous birdemic-phobics - in face of the evidence. Why this should be is another story, but it's a fact.

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

Not true in Taiwan, where doctors are literally the only people I’ve met who aren’t freaking out about the nonexistent birdemic crisis. Hospital administrators, alas, are another story, as is the Minister of Health.

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