We are often told that restrictions are necessary in order due to worrying variants etc. But is that really “following the science”? I think the lockdowns have rather turned us back towards a dark age of superstition.
Category: Christian
Anything I write about the Christian faith.
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A Biblical case for freedom (even during a pandemic)
Why is it appropriate to believe we should have freedom, even during a pandemic? In this video I explore the philosophical roots of freedom in Western democracies: what does the Bible say about freedom, and how should a government have responded on Christian principles?
I wrote a brief review and some thoughts about Dominion here.
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SAGE and the prophets of doom
One of the things we’ve got used to over the last 15 months is headlines telling us scientists warn against – well, just about everything to do with covid. But how accurate are their warnings? And why are they so doom-laden?
Links
- Spectator Data Tracker
- “How did Sage get it so wrong?” by Prof Philip Thomas from Bristol University
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What’s wrong with Experts?
An epiphany I had the other day about the problem with experts, with reference to a book by David Bentley Hart.
Links
- The book is called “Atheist Delusions”, which I reviewed a few years ago (with extensive quotes) on this blog.
- You might also enjoy Jamie Franklin’s post about experts and modern medicine.
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Is evangelism the only thing worth doing?
A lot of churches give the message – implicitly or even explicitly – that evangelism is the most valuable and important thing we can do. But where does that leave people who work in fields which are not explicitly Christian? What about hobbies? Here I argue that this attitude stems from an insufficient understanding of the gospel.
Resources mentioned in the video
- My sermon on Psalm 65 – “No Sacred-Secular Divide”
- Francis Schaeffer – True Spirituality
- J.I. Packer – Knowing God and Keep in Step with the Spirit
- What is Christianity? course on Understand the Bible
At the start I mentioned the Speak Life podcast and Cooper & Cary have words podcast. You can find them here:
“Is it the fault of evangelism?” on Speak Life
“The Ascension: What’s up with that?” on Cooper & Cary -
Asymptomatic Transmission: a dangerous idea?
For over a year we’ve been constantly told that of the dangers of “asymptomatic transmission”. This has driven much of the lockdown policy. But I think the narrative of asymptomatic transmission has caused something far worse – a change in our mindset.
Will Jones’ piece about covid (including on asymptomatic transmission) is here.
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Why is EVERYTHING so religious at the moment?
A lot of commentators have noted that just about everything seems to be religious at the moment. Whether that be lockdowns, wokeness, cancel culture – the list goes on. But why is it like that? In this video we look at a short passage from the Bible to help explain why we can’t get away from religion.
If you’d like a book which explains this in greater detail, check out Counterfeit Gods by Tim Keller, which I highly recommend.
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Lockdowns and the “Greater Good”
Is it right to do something you know is wrong for some greater good? Do lockdowns fit into this category? What does the Bible say about the “greater good”? Here I look at some of the ways our society thinks of the “greater good”, and we look at the Parable of the Good Samaritan.
The article I mentioned was Lockdown was a choice from The Critic.
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Hugging and expert overreach
It seems to me when experts are telling us what basic physical contact is and is not safe for us, we have a problem.
Links
I didn’t mention this in the video, but there are lots of benefits to hugging – see this website for example.
I wrote about experts here earlier on in the year – Will lockdown be the end of “experts”.
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How fear leads to lockdown
Why did lockdown happen? Frank Furedi argues in an article on Spiked that we were already primed for lockdown because of our culture of fear and safetyism. But how do we combat fear?
My article on Understand the Bible about the fear of the Lord is here.