Christians and Covid
The Christian response to Covid-19 continues to baffle me...on one hand there are many Christian leaders who support vaccination and taking measures to stop the spread of this deadly disease (from Russell Moore to Franklin Graham) and on the other hand I encounter many, many Christian blogs, websites and videos that treat a reasonable and responsible attitude about Covid as though it were anathema, as though our duty in Christ is to resist any efforts at mitigating this virus and its effects. Just today I was surprised to find Eastern Orthodox clergy and believers ascribing so much antagonism towards the vaccines, essentially treating these are spiritual evils. I do understand the fear, the vaccine mandate comes close to the Bible's description of the mark of the beast: and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 1...
