One thing about supporters of the “orthodox” COVID narrative, they love their talking points. While annoying during a discussion, their constant repetition of short, understandable, memorable lines seems to serve them well, particularly on social media. To help out those committed to COVID truth, we have published the information below largely drawn from the Canadian COVID Alliance. We did add the first two points to remind everyone that there is no “FDA approved” COVID vaccine available in the United States and that not all Christian leaders support these “vaccines” or their mandated use.
Feel free to post recommended additions to this list below in the comments. As we have been doing with our page on Vaccine Religious Exemptions, we would like to grow this list over time with community help.
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– Pfizer’s vaccine has been fully approved by the FDA which proves it is safe
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– The only COVID vaccines available in the U.S. are all under EUA. Comirnaty, the only FDA “approved” vaccine is not available in the U.S. EUA Vaccines require disclosure of the risks of the vaccine, and consent to be included in a trial.
– The FDA re-issued the EUA for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine on August 23, 2021 (the same day they publicly announced the FDA approval of Comirnaty, the vaccine which was tested in Europe). In the FDA’s Reissued Letter of Authorization for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is the following disclaimer in fine print: The licensed vaccine has the same formulation as the EUA-authorized vaccine and the products can be used interchangeably to provide the vaccination series without presenting any safety or effectiveness concerns. The products are legally distinct with certain differences that do not impact safety or effectiveness. (FDA, n.d.) – The FDA has not stated how the two products are legally distinct and what the certain differences are. |
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– Christian leaders promote and support the vaccines, calling it a Christian duty to get vaccinated. There is no moral issue with the vaccines.
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– The only COVID vaccines available in the U.S. and Canada have some connection with aborted fetal cells. This connection varies by vaccine. We include a chart in this article. While some Christian leaders have excused this connection, many others have not.
– All Christian leaders should, regardless of their personal feelings on the vaccines, support voluntary, informed consent for any medical procedure. It is a question of God-given free will explored here, here, here, and here.
– Among the Christian leaders who have opposed the vaccines, the vaccine mandates, or both are: – Metropolitan Neophytos of Greece – Archbishop for the Military Services Timothy P. Broglio (Roman Catholic) – Most Reverend Joseph E. Strickland Bishop of Tyler (Roman Catholic) – Metropolitan Makarios of Kenya (Note: We would like this list to be as complete as possible. If you have other examples, please post them as comments so we can add them.) |
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– COVID-19 poses a serious threat to public health.
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– Risk varies with age and comorbidities. Children, adolescents and young adults have a very low risk of hospitalization or death from COVID-19.
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– There is no available, effective, approved treatment for COVID-19.
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– Because healthy people are considered to transmit the virus, restrictions (including social distancing and lockdowns) are the best way to reduce transmission of COVID-19.
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– Numerous studies have found that healthy people do not significantly contribute to transmission of the virus. – Research has shown that the majority of people who have recovered from COVID-19 have developed immunity and do not transmit the virus. – Targeted early treatment and empowering people to build healthy, meaningful, socially connected lives is essential to personal well being and public health. |
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– COVID-19 vaccines are necessary, safe, and effective (“the benefits outweigh the risks”), and the fastest and only way to get back to, and perpetually maintain normal life.
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– The methods used to justify rapid COVID-19 vaccine development and rollout do not adequately measure necessity, safety, and efficacy. – There have been an unprecedented number of deaths and serious, life altering adverse reactions occurring shortly after COVID-19 vaccination. – Contrary to initial scientific assumption, the lipid nanoparticles in the COVID-19 vaccines do not stay at the injection site but travel throughout the body, cross the blood-brain barrier, and have been shown to accumulate in sensitive tissues including bone marrow and ovaries. – Much remains unknown about the extremely serious short and long term adverse effects and dangers of the COVID-19 vaccines. These risks need to be independently investigated immediately and resolved before continuing with mass vaccination. |
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– All COVID-19 vaccines are fully approved.
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– “The Science” is settled; anything contrary to the official narrative is not science.
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– “The Science” is not settled; competing evidence about COVID-19 is growing from many highly-credentialed sources and challenges the official narrative. Compelling scientific evidence is being ignored or censored. – In valuing principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion, we need to encourage multiple ways of knowing, and develop public health protocols that are evidence informed and responsive to the overall health and wellbeing of our individuals and communities. |
Do I cry or vomit? I asked my priest this very question recently: I don’t know if I should weep or vomit!
I had just read several articles detailing how these aborted cell lines are obtained. It is magnitudes worse and more evil than that. It is not Satanic enough to kill unborn babies. They deliver them alive from their mothers womb and quickly take the living baby to another room and another cold table to harvest what organs they want. One report said the little boy was sucking his fingers before they took him off to be slaughtered. The HEK cell line (kidney cells) seem to be very popular. They were obtained in the above manner from a little girl in or about 1972 in the Netherlands. I don’t know if she was crying or screaming but they cut out her kidneys while she was alive and awake, without an anesthetic. they took what they wanted and this killed her after which they threw her little body in the garbage!! How dare anyone say there are no moral problems with taking the current or any vaccines, which all use such cell lines. The weight of this evil does cause me to weep. Our countries and our Churches deserve every pain and evil that comes our way. And by the way, I read that a doctor from the U.S. Navy says these cells, taken from murdered babies contaminate all vaccines. And wonder of wonders, they cause cancer! Thank you Lord.
Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan (Roman Catholic) has strongly opposed the COVID vaccines since the beginning.
Let’s play name that flick? Is it “the train wreck from hell”? Or is this movie “dances with wolves (in sheep’s clothing)”. or is it “Hierarchy in the [shark] tank”?
Here is what I mean. Our priests came out in favor of the vaccines (despite my objections), got the vaccines, told people they got the vaccines, and forwarded the fallacies of “schizoid theologians who think they are doctors” that said the vaccines were not to be feared (even for a pregnant woman: anybody that stupid might forget to breathe, better check’em for a pulse, more importantly brain waves). (ask me what I really think.)
I hate to say it, but I saw it coming; and I said it on this site, “if you live by the vaccine you will die by the vaccine”. Our arch-priest came home from the diocese assembly and felt ill and tested positive (was your priest there? Don’t ask, don’t tell).
Now our priest is quarantined (oh, wait a minute, I thought he got vaxxed just so he would not have to do this again) and we are short handed (running out of priests; does anybody have a spare we could borrow? One that is not vaxxed, please). In the next few years, we might need one anyway. Send your application with all vax-records to….
So now, many other parishioners are running out and getting tested, and coming back positive…Of course, the tests are totally unreliable but who can tell the innocent ignorant parishioners that pay the bills and see their doctors regularly that his/her faith in the shot was misplaced, even when all the clergy lined up to get the frankenshot. Now that the real nature of the shot is coming out, is it deceitful to withhold that info just to keep the peace? On no, we cannot oppose or inform on vaccines as the would be “practicing medicine.”
Oh, wait! here is the best name for this movie, “Catch 22” or maybe “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t”
Just do not let them put you on the ventilator; (This news just in…ventilator replaces electric chair on death row (tongue in cheek); works as good as “Old Sparky” and the family is told he died of COVID.)They can say, “no, my son/dad/friend/brother was not executed for his crimes, he died of covid”. (Every death is now a covid death).
Back to “Catch 22”: Will anyone get up and tell the parish the touted “vaccine” does not work; that the shot can make you sick, shorten your life, be a lifetime nightmare of autoimmune malfunction; that now the third vaccine is now necessary, is a tool for world control, and that this wonderful all savior-vaccine that has come down from our god –big pharma– to save us all from evil virus was all made possible and brought to you by… by somebody’s elective abortion?
Or that the Frankenshot makes your body produce spike proteins that can harm anyone who comes in close contact with you (like hearing a confession).
Of course not, we just let the narrative keep on rolling as we all live out this lie because we would never say the Emperor has no clothes.
Do I cry or vomit?
Nice publication.
A few weeks old, but extremely relevant for anyone who wants to engage in “talking”:
Interview with Prof. Mattias Desmet (psychologist).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj5bo_KFqgo
Dear OR
Thank you and God bless you for your work in the Lord.
May every soul you help be a crown for you in His Eternal Kingdom
Bishop Ambrozie of Giurgiu, Orthodox Church of Romania (Bishop since 2000).
All medical evidence showing the jab a medical catastrophe aside: while we cannot say for sure that the frankenshot is The Mark of the Beast, it is in the same mold, form, and result as what the Scripture has said will be The Mark of the Beast. This is because of all the controls being attached to it. The plan is that no one can buy or sell without the vax-pass. So, while we are not sure yet if it is the archetype mark, it is quickly being pushed in that direction around the world. On that basis alone, it carries an anti-Christ spirit. From every point of view, the so called vax is evil.
Actually, there may be a silver lining here. With the systems of this world–medical, economic, and political–hemorrhaging,the Orthodox faithful can learn what it means to be a tribe/community/big family/interdependent again. Humanity was always healthiest in tribal systems governed by fathers not far removed; inherently Orthodoxy is tribal. The chief was always, one of us.
From industrialization on, everything about life has been compressed into segments of time; the invention of the clock was the biggest ball-and-chain ever placed upon the Faith. Where our liturgy was originally hours long–pretty much all day–, it is now compressed into 1.7 hrs, the same almost every single Sunday. In other words, what is from heaven is governed by man’s time frame.
Likewise, I predict we learn the meaning of barter; that as a community we trade goods and services without the use of cash; our living more reflecting the Amish communities, who have maintained their ethos for centuries with little alterations. We once again learn the meaning of trust. Spiritually, our extreme independence has destroyed our interdependence which has devolved into hierarchical micromanagement on the one hand and absenteeism on the other, and spiritual guides (some) who do not respect classic family structures (I got stories).
The COVID Melee is indicative of larger fundamental, moral, and managerial problems. The current disaster in Orthodoxy happened because it could happen, where in generations past, it would not have created such chaos. Where ever you find the Faithful largely ignoring outside mandates, you will find the true Orthodox Church. The problem–we must see this–is not in what the world system is doing to us, the problem is that the Church is no longer behaving like and true to itself, and it is now surrendering to the gates of hell (in too many places), and hierarchs become portals of evil (government control) rather than faithful gatekeepers.
Instinctively, the Faithful who “know His voice” are uncomfortable with these things because their nous is sounding the alarm.
Another prediction: among the laity, there will arise–what I call–the sheepdog/watchdog who will instinctively protect and shepherd the sheep, because they know the heart of the Good Shepherd (E.g. those behind this website).
Archbishop Teodosie of Tomis in Romania also opposes forced vaccination: https://youtu.be/X2WbZTHUbaM
Great news – is there an English translation available?
Cite the OCA synodal statement from 2001 that condemns all research on aborted embryonic cell lines. It hadn’t been overturned yet
http://www.monomakhos.com/heres-the-scoop/?unapproved=182249&moderation-hash=e7db29534c2297837057bfb6c8d8f7b4#comment-182249
A little extra info…
To me it all boils down to, ” who does man think he is to take the GOD GIVEN GIFT OF FREEDOM OF CHOICE away from his brethern. It’s the manipulation of the ” evil one”.
We agree, so we just added free will / freedom of conscience to our vaccine exemption page.
https://orthodoxreflections.com/for-covid-vaccine-religious-exemptions-your-sincerely-held-beliefs-are-what-matter/
I would add on the “get back to normal” point. That the vaccine is not designed to prevent transmission and therefore cannot contribute to herd immunity or the end of the pandemic. It’s basic vaccinology.