Turn in your hymnal to everyone’s favourite: “Go Along to Get Along”.

WWJD? (What Would Jesus Do)

Well, He’d get jabbed, of course. I mean, it’s the Christian thing to do.

Wait. Why would Jesus need a vaccine at all?

Er, never mind. WWJD isn’t supposed to be an exact science. It’s more the vibe of the thing. And the vibe is that Jesus would be twice jabbed, and several times boosted.

He’d also be wearing a mask (even when riding a donkey alone), and He’d maintain a 1.5m distance from the disciples all times.

And so it was, in 2021, that the Archbishop of Canterbury insisted loving your neighbour meant being stuck like a pin cushion with an experimental vaccine, the efficacy of which was uncertain and the long term health effects of which were even less sure.

It’s what Jesus would do, he said.

Getting the jibby jab was not about your right to choose. It was about your Christian duty to love your neighbour.

Except that the vaccine did nothing at all to stop you transmitting the virus to your neighbour.

It did, however, increase your chances of suffering from myocarditis or ending up with Ramsey Hunt Syndrome.

The Archbishop wasn’t alone in his love for the jab.

As recently as January 2022, the Pope suggested that getting vaccinated against Covid was a “moral obligation”.

That’s right. Having the Pfizer was not a medical choice; it was a moral obligation – like telling the truth or repaying a debt you owe.

Moreover, he denounced people who refused the shots because of “baseless information”, you know, as opposed to factual information such as that the shots didn’t stop infection, didn’t stop transmission and had not been properly tested.

Now that we know the safe and effective vaccine was not nearly as safe or effective as it was made out to be, one might expect an apology from the Archbishop and the Pope.

You might imagine they have a “moral obligation” to say sorry for parroting baseless information” from governments.

WWJD?

When governments told churches they could meet but not sing, churches duly obliged.

When governments told everybody they had to be vaccinated or else shunned as second class citizens, churches agonised over whether they should permit the unvaxxed to worship with them.

Some churches actually checked vaccine passports at the door, which no doubt impressed their overlords no end.

When governments mandated vaccinations, Christian Schools sacked teachers who preferred not to take the government supplied spike protein. It was disgraceful.

When governments told churches they could not meet at all since they were not an “essential service”, churches immediately agreed and closed their doors.

But had not health officials spoken?

Had not politicians declared?

And when churches reopened a year or more later, church leaders blamed the dramatic drop in numbers on the congregation’s lack of discipleship.

Yeah, that was it. The people were uncommitted. (Insert massive eye roll here.)

The church didn’t stand up when it had the chance.

Now we have Catholic women being arrested on the streets of England for silent prayer, and still barely a peep from the church.

I just hoped Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, arrested for thinking private thoughts to her God within 150m of an abortion clinic, was up to date with her Covid-19 booster shots.

Lord knows, that’s what Jesus would have wanted.

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Originally published at The James Macpherson Report. Photo by Kat Smith.