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A Victim of Your Freedom

7/29/2021

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Excerpted from the New York Times, July 27, 2021: 

There is a straightforward ethical argument to be made for vaccine mandates: Herd immunity is a collective good and its absence a collective harm, so vaccination cannot be a matter solely of personal choice.

“What is your liberty worth if you tell me you don’t want to get vaccinated?” President Emmanuel Macron of France 
told reporters recently. “And tomorrow, you infect your father, your mother or myself. I am a victim of your freedom.” 


One of the overarching goals of the global diktat of "none are safe until all are safe" is the elimination of human freedom, particularly spiritual freedom.

As events of the past sixteen months or so have shown, the Establishment and their System can curtail material freedom quite effectively, but they have no means through which to stamp out spiritual freedom. 

And they know it. 


The only thing they can do is continuously attempt to persuade and manipulate us into surrendering our spiritual freedom to them. 

But if we reject their persuasions and rebuff their manipulations . . . well, then there isn't a much they can do except ratchet up the demonic pressure in the material world in the hope that the increased pressure will finally convince us to submissively hand over our spiritual freedom in exchange for safety, peace, security, health, comfort, etc. 

Unfortunately, surrendering spiritual freedom will not enhance material freedom, safety, security, and all the rest of it. On the contrary, when we willingly surrender our spiritual freedom, we willingly consent to enslavement and, ultimately damnation.

I can guarantee you that those opposed to God and Creation are delighted to dish out hearty servings of both. 

So let the totalitarian apparatchiks groan on about being victims of freedom. Better that than allowing ourselves to become willing victims of the spiritual un-freedom they espouse.
8 Comments
bruce charlton
7/30/2021 09:57:17

The trouble is that 'freedom' is itself a pretty materialist and leftist value. Only fifty years ago it was the rallying cry of the sixties revolution.

Maybe it is better to focus on what is being sought: control by this-worldly authority; and its opposite - personal agency on behalf of divine reality.

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Francis Berger
7/30/2021 16:21:29

@ Bruce - Yes, personal agency on behalf of Divine reality true freedom - a positive value - freedom for - freedom in Christ. The sort of freedom Jesus refers to in the Fourth Gospel.

Leftism freedom is based on the rejection of the above in favor of freedom from God and Creation.

The false and dangerous nature of God-less leftist freedom has become strikingly clear. All freedom that is not aligned with Divine reality ends in material enslavement and, ultimately, spiritual enslavement.

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William Wildblood
7/30/2021 10:39:28

All this manipulative nonsense boils down to saying that the end justifies the means which we know is how all moral truths get corrupted.

Macron: Is your freedom more important than my safety?
Me: Yes.

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Francis Berger
7/30/2021 16:23:29

@ William - I find it quite revealing how quickly leftists have abandoned their freedom mantra - unless it involves deviant sexuality or something of that nature, but even then, get pecked and wear a mask!

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William Wildblood
7/30/2021 10:43:54

Perhaps I should add to make the point clearer. Because spiritual freedom is more important than material safety.

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William Wildblood
7/30/2021 17:22:53

I use freedom in the sense of spiritual autonomy not the freedom to do as I want. It's the former that the peck seeks to take from us.

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Francis Berger
7/30/2021 21:47:15

@ William - Yes, that's it exactly.

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PK
8/1/2021 10:57:12

Thank you for the insightful thoughts in your blog.

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