Church Agency Urges Masking and Vaccinating
Agency in effect acts as a shill for Big Pharma and the new authoritarianism
The Wisconsin Council of Churches (WCC) in its January 10, 2024 missive, where it urges congregants to “mask up” and “get vaccinated” WCC Strongly Encourages Masking — Again – Wisconsin Council of Churches (wichurches.org), once again acts more like a shill for Big Pharma and the new authoritarianism than a judicious voice for faith-based discernment. Perhaps this agency can venture outside its own echo chamber to hear prophetic voices like Dr. Naomi Wolf in her book The Bodies of Others:
“The Bodies of Others is about how we came to the harrowing civilizational crossroads at which we find ourselves - engaged in a war against vast impersonal forces with limitless power over our lives and which threaten the freedoms we have always taken for granted.
In her most provocative book yet, Dr. Naomi Wolf shows how these forces -- from Big Tech and Big Pharma to the CCP and our oligarchical elites -- seized upon two years of COVID-19 panic in sinister new ways, to not only undermine our Republic but to fundamentally reorient human relations.
Their target is humanity itself. Their end goal is to ensure that our pre-March 2020 world is gone forever. Irretrievable. To be replaced with a world in which all human endeavor-all human joy, all human fellowship, all human advancement, all human culture, all human song, all human drama, all worship, all surprise, all flirtation, all celebration-is behind a digital paywall. A world in which we will all have to ask technology's permission to be human.
But we, the people of the world, did not vote to abandon our old systems and destroy our old ways so absolutely they could never be recovered. And Wolf shows how, against overwhelming odds, we still might win.” (Foreword)
Wolf addresses masks in Chapter 11: How Masks Suppress the Human Advantage in which she interviews “…Megan Mansell enumerating the ways “masking” was counterproductive, even potentially damaging…” (page 179)
Wolf concludes, “We had been people who respected privacy; now we had become people who monitored the bodies of others. We had been kind, generous people with public morals that were truly decent; now we had become people who tolerated and supported cruelty. We had been people who accepted individual needs and requirements; now we had become people who could not accept or tolerate individual need, individual variation, indeed people who rolled right other it without compassion.” (page 190)
People had been told that injections and masks were safe and effective. Now, many have wised up to these misrepresentations. The WCC needs to wise up also and avoid misleading members of Wisconsin congregations.