The United States Department of Energy now embraces the narrative that COVID originated from a lab leak in China.

Of course, this directly contradicts what the NIH director and evangelical leader Francis Collins told us.

He said the lab leak theory was misinformation that the virus was absolutely not man-made

and that the NIH never supported the kind of gain of function research that Senator Rand Paul

claimed started the COVID situation. Ed Stetser, the newly appointed dean of the

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University, suggested that Christians who believed the lab leak theory needed to repent.

Joe Carter writing for the Gospel Coalition said the lab leak theory was outlandish and connected with QAnon.

He went on to accuse Christians of slandering Anthony Fauchy by spreading misinformation.

The New York Times ran a piece last week, also admitting that the mask mandates did nothing.

This piece is of course about three years too late to aid Christians in the pews who

resisted the draconian lockdowns, mask mandates, and Clot shot push, but it is never too late for

pastors and Christian leaders to apologize for weaponizing Jesus' command to

love your neighbor and Romans 13 against their own followers.

It was almost universal among Christian leaders to bind to the COVID hype.

One evangelical Presbyterian pastor in my local area suggested to his congregation that they were participating in

murder if they did not follow protocols. Every last one of us had to come to terms

with the fact that this was not a matter of our religious rights.

It was not about bowing to political pressure.

It was about caring for people.

It was a matter of being committed to caring for people. It was never a matter of fending off fear

versus watering down our witness. It was always a matter of mitigating, mitigating a form of murder.

Murder. You might think that's too much to say, and we've had to wrestle with this.

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