I’m Ashamed of the Christian Response to COVID-19
When did “my rights, my freedoms” supersede “love your neighbor?”
I’ve started a draft of this article a dozen different ways, and I still don’t know how to begin.
Maybe that’s because I still don’t want to acknowledge what I’ve witnessed.
We’ve crossed the threshold of another year clouded by the COVID-19 pandemic. A disease that has killed nearly three million people worldwide (at the time of this writing) is still very present among us.
And yet, if you go by the behavior, rhetoric, and social media postings of many American Christians, the coronavirus is nothing but a hoax. A scam. A conspiracy to silence and inconvenience them.
Does this represent all Christians? Certainly not. I know of many who are conscientiously doing their best to keep others safe from COVID-19.
But I can’t help but wonder: if you and I, perhaps, do not want to be associated with an angry group of pandemic-deniers… what, exactly, are we doing to shine a kinder, more caring light?
