ajax18 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 2:07 pm
Even my surgeon/stake president agreed me with me that COVID was entirely political. I'm sure that alone would qualify him as an idiot on this board. And yet he was top of his med school class and he is unlike me a medical doctor. He's not an idiot. The people who judge him to be so are just carnal men who will never understand the things of the spirit.
Faith leaders make an appeal to Utahns: Wear a mask to protect your neighbor
Latter-day Saint, Catholic, Jewish, Buddhist and leaders from dozens of other faith traditions join together to call on all to ‘love one’s neighbor’ by wearing a mask and social distancing
By Tad Walch@Tad_Walch Jun 24, 2020, 9:23pm MDT
“We, the under-signed faith community leaders, appeal to people of faith all over the state to wear masks and practice physical distancing, sacrificing a small measure of comfort for the sake of saving lives. We recall that the greatest commandment is to love God, and the second is like unto it, to love one’s neighbor as oneself. One cannot claim to love one’s neighbor while deliberately putting them at risk.
“We pray for the end of this devastating pandemic. However, the reality is that our actions must accompany those prayers. Please join us in continuing to take action to prevent the further spread of the pandemic by wearing masks in public and maintaining physical distancing.”
The letter was signed by Rev. Curtis Price, First Baptist Church, Salt Lake City; Rev. Monica Dobbins, First Unitarian Church; Rev. Fred Smullin, Morgan Valley Church; Rev. David Nichols, Mount Tabor Lutheran Church, Salt Lake City; Elder Randy D. Funk, first counselor in the Utah Area Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Bishop Oscar Solis, Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake; Bishop Scott Hayashi, Episcopalian Diocese of Utah; Rev. Greg Johnson, Executive Director, Standing Together (100 Evangelical Utah Churches); Rev. Charles Robinson, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Park City; Joelle Wight, Seventy, Community of Christ Church; and Rev. Russell Butler, Christ United Methodist Church, Salt Lake City.
Mormon leaders ask church members to wear face masks in public to defend against coronavirus
Mormon church leaders are imploring followers to wear masks in public to defend against the coronavirus as temples reopen and church activities resume.
The Utah Area Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which consists of local leaders who preside over the church's activities in the region, asked church members in an email to wear face coverings in public "for the blessing and benefit of all."
The area's three leaders, citing a "growing chorus of medical authorities," recommended members of the church wear masks both indoors and outdoors to curb the spread of coronavirus. The Deseret News, which is owned by the Church, obtained the email.
"We are in the midst of a global pandemic unlike any the world has experienced in more than a century," the email reads. "Latter-day Saints are not immune."
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints suspended much of its activity due to the coronavirus, sending missionaries home and closing most of its temples. Many of those temples have since resumed services this month as the church begins its own phased reopening, though many church activities remain suspended, including its educational programs and Tabernacle Choir performances.
It doesn't look to me like LDS leadership buys into the myth that "COVID was entirely political!"
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
