Whatever Happened to Live and Let Live?
I’ve always loved the movie The Hiding Place—Hollywood’s version of the life of Christian author and speaker Corrie Ten Boom and her family. The Ten Boom’s were arrested for hiding and helping Jews during the German occupation of Holland in World War II. Betrayed by Hollanders who prided themselves in obeying German law, the Ten Boom family spent several years in concentration camps. God graciously rescued Corrie, but most of her family died there.
More
recently, I found another movie, The Zookeeper’s Wife, a true account of
Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who also hid Jews when the Germans occupied Poland. Yad
Vashem in Israel aptly recognized them with the “Righteous Among The Nations”
honor.
I
love Israel. And it breaks my heart to see the unquenched resurgence of anti-Semitism
in New York City. Or to be reminded of Jews suffering at the hands of pure
evil—Hitler and his Nazi regime.
But lest we forget, Hitler’s rise to power
was slow at first. For example, in his 1919
letter to Adolf Gemlich, “…Hitler argues that antisemitism
should be based on facts, Jews were a race
and not a religious group, and that the aim for the government ‘must
unshakably be the removal of the Jews altogether.’”[1]
In
1925 and 1926, he published Mein Kamph and dedicated it to his mentor, Dietrich Eckart,
a member of the occultist group, The Thule Society. In the book, Hitler equated
Jews with germs, and he expounded upon his plans to
transform German society into one based on RACE. By 1934, well over a million copies
had been sold.[2] Any of this sound
familiar??
Hitler
undermined Germany’s understanding of right and wrong. He twisted the minds of
children (and adults), claiming, “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the
future.”[3]
When the German people were thoroughly indoctrinated, they gladly betrayed
Jewish neighbors believing them to be sub-human.
With
the rapid erosion of America’s freedoms, I see Hitler’s same ideologies rising up. So, I
better speak while I still can.
Last
month, The Salem News carried an article written by Connie Schultz, wife of
Senator Sherrod Brown, titled, Get thee vaccinated, evangelical friends.
Since I attend Alliance Evangelical Friends Church, I began
reading, but halfway through, I was fuming.
The
author bases her opinion piece on a New York Times article. Schultz’s “good
news—65 million people in the US have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.”
However, her “pull-out-your-hair news from
a Pew Research study—out of 41 million white evangelical adults, 45% said in late
February they don’t plan to get vaccinated.”
Quoting
Jamie Aten of Wheaton College, an evangelical institution in Illinois, Shultz
wrote, “If we can’t get a significant number of white evangelicals
to come around on this, the pandemic is going to last much longer
than it needs to.”
Whoa
— déjà vu — a teacher punishing the whole class for one child’s misbehavior.
But after school, isn’t it the classmates who correct the one child?
The
Times also cited, “Lauri Armstrong, a Bible-believing nutritionist outside of Dallas…[She]…said she did
not need the vaccine because God designed the body to heal itself, if given the
right nutrients. [And] it would be God’s will if I am here or if I am not
here.”
Appalled,
Schultz then commented, “I am related to many evangelicals,
and some of them I love, but we are at an impasse here. Listing all the reasons
to get vaccinated is like reading a restaurant menu to a giraffe. They are smart and attentive, but
we’re not speaking the same language. If I hear one more person tell me, “It’s
in God’s hands…”
Shultz claims she’s a Christian. But it’s
clear she’s not a true believer, because she then asks the question, “When did white preachers stop telling the helicopter
story?” This where I paused my reading to cool off a bit. How dare her write
such a “racist” article.
Long Helicopter story short: A man who drowns in a flood says to God, “I
trusted You to save me.” God says, “I sent you a police officer, a boat, and a
helicopter. What more did you want?”
Is
Schultz claiming God sent the vaccine to save us, and the unvaccinated are too
dumb to realize it? I think so.
This
mindset is doing the same to our citizens as Hitler did to Germans. It’s
twisting our thinking, causing us to trust government more than our real Savior or our fellow man, thereby making criminals out
of the unvaccinated.
Think
I’m overreacting? Consider New York’s Excelsior Pass, vaccine passports, and
The Epoch Times article, “Oregon First State to Require Vaccination Proof for
Maskless Entry Into Businesses, Workplaces, and Churches.”[4] Now Facebook is tracking its
members for vaccine hesitancy. What’s next?
To me, these government requirements are like the Nazi-required armbands for Jews. It’s the same type of recognition. The armband was the first step used to separate and dehumanize Jews.
Where is our freedom of choice? Women are free to choose to
murder their unborn baby, but the unvaccinated are not free to put only
themselves at risk?
Whatever happened to live and
let
live?
If
you have strong convictions that the vaccine is good—take it. If you have solid
beliefs that the vaccine is harmful, the agenda behind it malicious, and the
subsequent mandates Naziesque—don’t
get vaccinated. But be prepared for persecution because the days are
evil.
“Therefore He says: ‘Awake, you who sleep, arise from
the dead, and Christ will give you light.’ See then that you walk
circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time,
because the days are evil.”[5]
[3] *Adolf
Hitler, as quoted in “Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression,” vol. 1 (Washington,
D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1946), p. 320. Available online
at http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/NT_Nazi_Vol-I.pdf.
Referenced by https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2014/05/06/he-alone-who-owns-the-youth-gains-the-future/
[4] https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/oregon-first-state-to-require-vaccination-proof-for-maskless-entry-into-businesses-workplaces-and-churches
[5] Ephesians
5:14-16
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