We used to think it noble to sacrifice our lives to preserve our freedom. Now we sacrifice our freedom to preserve lives

With any large company or government or institution, the bottom line will always be the bottom line, and so the church can’t take the risk of allowing people to worship for the same reason we can’t take the risk of being honest about our history. We cannot open the way for scores of litigants to come forward and say “my grandma would still be alive if you had only closed the doors of the church”. No! We must do whatever is necessary – close the doors, stop people singing, talking, embracing, deny the faith if we have to … just protect the bottom line!

There are alternate paths out of this mess.

For our leaders, we need them to be guided by love rather than by fear. As the Apostle John said, “perfect love casts out all fear”. (1 John 4:18), If love is too much to ask for, just a basic respect for human dignity will do.

For the rest of us, we need to be willing to take personal responsibility for our own health and leave the government to focus on their real job - protecting our freedoms!