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“Strong Work!”


Today on Easter Sunday I read four different stories about churches and church services from three different countries. All of these stories were about Covid and how it is affecting churches and those people who want to go to church to worship.

Which story is the most egregious?

Which is the most nefarious?

Which is the scariest?

In England on Good Friday, the police barge into a church and declare Good Friday mass is canceled due to COVID restrictions. This happened at a Polish Catholic Church in south London this week.(via The Guardian):

A statement posted on the church’s website on Saturday said that they complied with the order to close the service and for people to go home, but insisted it had met all government requirements. It claimed the Met officers had misunderstood regulations on church services during the pandemic.

They said: “We believe, however, that the police brutally exceeded their powers by issuing their warrant for no good reason.”

“Strong work,” London police!

In Calgary police were met with resistance when they attempted to shut down a Good Friday church service for violating COVID restrictions. Artur Pawlowski, the pastor at The Cave of Adullam, told police to leave and not return until they had a search warrant in hand.

Police were hesitant to leave but the pastor wasn’t backing down. “Out of this property, you Nazis!” Pawlowski shouted. “Gestapo is not allowed here!” As police left the property, Pawlowski told them “not to come back, you Nazi psychopaths.” (Here the video is definitely worth watching.)

According to the pastor, the time to stand up and push back against the out-of-control government is now. 

“Strong work,” Calgary police!

Just outside Dallas Texas at a Catholic Church, the pastor called the police because a young pregnant attendee would not wear a mask after she was warned. Apparently it was not important to the pastor that the woman was sitting in the back of the church away from other attendees, and had a one year old in her arms. One wonders if this enlightened “woke” pastor has ever tried to pray with a one year old constantly grabbing at his face mask?

Indeed the police came . . . actually three police came, to usher this “violent criminal” out of the church with the threat of handcuffing her if she did not immediately leave. They timed their arrival immediately after communion, such that the women still had the host in her mouth. Keep in mind that this occurred in Texas where the governor has cancelled all dictums on the necessity of wearing face masks.

“Strong work,” woke pastor!

“Strong work,” Dallas police! Handcuffs? OMG!

In Florida some churches now have the congregation segregated into a vaccinated section and a non-vaccinated section. As of yet I do not think that these churches are checking for “vaccine passports,” mainly because they haven’t come into fruition yet.

Is this an arbitrary attempt to protect some of the church attendees from . . . ? (Which side would be protected? Is the protection for those who have been vaccinated or is this an attempt to protect the non-vaccinated from the vaccinated? – either is absurd.)

However, here I must say, “strong work,” and actually mean it!

( I recognize this as a veiled attempt to satisfy those woke snowbirds that are down for the winter from New England. After all it is important to keep these visitors happy so that they continue to drop something in the collection each Sunday through April.)

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