The Silence Of The Shepherds

The Silence of the Shepherds

 Lee Cary

Collectively, they put up little-to-no resistance to the State-ordered closure of their sanctuaries.

Technically, their congregations or denominations own the space, not them.  They are merely the shepherds of those who sit in pews, entrusted with leadership over the lambs, in religious matters.

The urban dictionary defines “folded like a cheap suit” to mean: “To give in on something you felt so strongly about only a moment ago”.

Most clergy folded like cheap suits when their state government gave them the order to shut down worship. 
Now, as many re-open, it will be time to do a damage assessment.

What was the impact of closure on church finances? How many of those who could not come, will now come back? While the bricks and mortar churches were closed, how many parishioners found meaning in voyeuristic participation in remote worship on live TV, or in YouTube streaming? Or via radio broadcasts, that flood the airwaves on Sunday mornings?

Meanwhile, some advantages will have come to those who adjusted to remote worship. 

No travel time to church. No worries about social distancing. No passing the collection plate.  No dress codes.  Attendance permitted in P.J.’s, even underwear.  Breakfast during the sermon on a TV tray, or a coffee table while watching a Joel Osteen wannabee. Or, in larger churches, the regular preacher addressing a near empty room, may be perceived as only pretending to be speaking to a live audience. 

More than a few who once sat in the pews will have, during their months away, grown accustomed to distance worship as equivalent in value to live participation in a large room with friends, in spaces where, in small rural congregations, now deceased parents, aunts and uncles once sat.

Distance worship through a screen, with preachers in the company of working stage hands, deletes congregational singing.  But, then, in several of the old dying denominations, many have already found the liturgy redundant, and the hymns unsingable. 

Those legacy congregations that now offer “contemporary” worship as an option to the “traditional” format are logistically out-classed by large non-denominational churches that pioneered the contemporary motif decades long ago. They often hire stage talent. Because it’s partly show-business.

By and large, America’s clergypersons didn’t challenge the government logic of keeping Walmart, Lowe’s Home Improvement, Home Depot, Target, Kroger Grocery Stores, et.al. open and well-stocked with shoppers who move around the aisles often within a foot of each other, while church sanctuaries, like that pictured above, were closed, to all but the church mouse.

There was scant resistance from the shepherds when their flocks were divided and sequestered at home—except for essential trips.  Church not being essential.

How hard would it have been to social distance in a sanctuary capable of seating, say, 400-600 with parishioners sitting six feet apart? And masked. Only a minority sing anyway, and often not all that well. But it’s the effort that counts.

All those seats usually filled on Easter Sunday, could have been spread out over multiple assigned shifts of attendance.  As many as necessary. Those with last names beginning with A-H come at X time. Those I-O at Y time. Etc. It wasn’t impossible. But it wasn’t at all, because the shepherds complied when the Government ordered. 

The shepherds surrendered their flocks. Because they were told to by the State

Except at the Temple Baptist Church in Greenville, Mississippi.  There worshippers had been attending church while seated in their vehicles in the church parking lot, listening to their preacher’s sermons on radios.  But then Mayor Erick Simmons issued an executive order—it’s what executives do to feel important—in mid-April, that closed Temple Baptist for both in-person and drive-in church services.  Those who defied the order were fined $500. 

The 2020 shutdown of worship in America’s churches should end, once and for all, the notion of separation of Church & State—however you define it.

The shepherds surrendered their flocks. Because they were told to by the State.

It was a milestone event in American history. Though it’s hardly been noticed.

PLANNED “SECOND WAVE” IS COMING: 

Mac Slavo

We should all be preparing now for the planned “second wave” of COVID-19.  The mainstream media is already doing its due diligence by panicking the general public.  Because the riots and looting took too much attention off the coronavirus hoax, the powers that shouldn’t be are going to make sure they get you living in fear again, and vaccinated.

Governments are doing exactly what the elitists are telling them to do and your interests don’t matter to them one small bit. They could very well commit both economic terrorism and bioterrorism against all of us in order to usher in the New World Order.

Some say the vaccine won’t be mandatory because Donald Trump said so. But for all intents and purposes, regardless of what Trump says, it will be.  If you refuse the vaccine, you won’t be allowed to go to school, work, or travel on an airplane, and those will be the decisions of companies doing the bidding of the elitists. If you take the vaccine, you’ll be traced, tracked, and surveilled for the rest of your life while having DNA-altering nanobots manipulating your body without you knowing it, into a compliant little slave. Which option do you want? Neither seem like good options, to be honest.

If you don’t think the governments are planning for the invention of the second wave, think again. A quick perusal of the headlines today should prove otherwise. Iowa has already purchased 500 ventilators, that some medical experts (whistleblowers) say are killing people, as opposed to saving them, in “preparation” of another outbreak.

The best thing we can do is to remove our compliance, stop “acquiescing” as David Icke says, and stop living in fear.  Remove your consent to be ruled and governed (which means controlled) and start owning yourself. Take back your power that most so willingly give to the government. I know I used to too, thinking they were there to help.

But, you are not a slave and putting a piece of paper in a box every four years doesn’t make you free. The indoctrination is hard to break, but once you do, and those blinders are removed, a great sense of freedom that is unexplainable will be felt. The mainstream media, celebrities, and schools have brainwashed people at the commands of governments.  It’s time to stop feeding their narrative, wake up, and live freely and sovereign as we were all born.