They Don't Want to Understand
A single, government-approved, official narrative corrupts everything.
What else did Pastor Art Pawlowski tell the audience at the Great Awakening Conference held in Whitby last week? He has a sense of humour, so when referring to the famous video of his confrontation with Calgary police and COVID public health officials, he quipped:
I find it fascinating that it takes a Polish immigrant with the broken English to teach authorities English. I thought that my English was not that bad, but I had to repeat to them over 30 times to ‘Get out.’
…And I think that's the problem that we have in the political arena. They just do not understand us. They don't want to understand.
They don’t want to understand. This mindset now infects the media, as well. Journalists no longer listen. They no longer seek out diverse perspectives on current events. They no longer try to help Canadians from different regions and different socioeconomic backgrounds understand each another. The media is now in the business of promoting a single, official narrative. Government COVID policy is not to be questioned. Anyone who does so is a racist, misogynist, anti-vax fringe minority with unacceptable views.
Churches, too, have been neutralized. From the beginning of the pandemic onward, Canadian churches took government money. After they began cashing those cheques, they were trapped. Biting the hand that feeds you is risky. Criticizing COVID restrictions. Objecting to vaccine coercion. What if the government demanded all that money back?
So Canadian churches became just another government mouthpiece. Bishops and priests, ministers and pastors didn’t want to understand the misery government policy was inflicting on their parishioners. People being shunned by their own families. People being snitched on by their own neighbours. People being forced to take injections they didn’t want. People losing 30-year careers.
While all of this was going on where were the bishops and the cardinals speaking truth to power? Why did these shepherds fail to advocate loudly and publicly on behalf of their flock? It’s amazing what 30 pieces of silver can buy.
During his speech, Pastor Art referred more than once to Deitrich Bonhoeffer, the Protestant theologian who opposed the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, who spent time in concentration camps, and who was executed in 1945 for being part of a plot to kill Hitler. The DietrichBonhoeffer.org website observes, on its front page, that Bonhoeffer realized early on that Hitler was using the German church for his own purposes.
Pastor Art told the Whitby audience last week that Bonhoeffer’s early warnings about Nazism went unheeded. He was dismissed by fellow Germans who said something along the lines of: Hitler is nutty, but he’s not going to commit mass murder. It’s not that bad. Are you crazy?
So many people don’t want to understand.
Pastor Art, the Polish immigrant to Canada, is alive to historical parallels. In his words:
I have seen this movie before. And I'm telling you, if we together, if we will not change the script, this movie doesn't end well…for you, or for your children.
…Martin Luther King Jr said freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed. So now the question for you is a very simple one. Are you demanding your freedom? Do you want it?
And if you don't want it for yourself, because you might say to yourself, ‘I've done my life, I survived this.’ What about your children? What about their children?
What kind of a nation are we going to leave behind? That's up to you and me.
Thank You Donna for today’s entry of your daily message of Thank You Truckers - so right on and accurate that because of it - I’m having trouble to close my mouth be it was so jaw dropping! - Just yesterday, Rebel News did a story about a portion of the National Citizen’s Inquiry of the Vancouver hearings with a husband testifying about his unvaccinated bus driving wife who after 12 years of service was terminated November 30/21 and because Trudeau has been so determined and super controlling put pressure on UI to not provide the unvaxxed with unemployment benefits (that each and every working stiff pays into all their life) - after just 11 days of depression because of the hopelessness she felt by being condemned and crucified by her bosses, workmates - abandoned by her union reps - took her own life!!!! - THIS IS BEING CAUSED BY CLASS WARFARE - The richest Canadian who is the 23 richest in the world- own the Globe and Mail - has anyone seen a single article on or reference to the NCI? Has that person donated a single dollar to this citizen funded Inquiry? Everyone should think and ask themselves how many of their friends, family, workmates or neighbours have even heard of the NCI? How much has the Galen Weston’s of Canada donated? - I am willing to bet my right arm that most of the donations received so far is from the small portion of working class (including retirees in their final years) who are awake and realize that this Country’s residents are in a battle of their lifetime!!!!
Thank you for this. I missed the news at the time that the Canadian gov't was paying the churches to stay closed and shut up. I did wonder why virtually all religious leaders, early on, were silent when the gov't deemed their services "unessential" for months on end. I'm not religious myself but this just seemed wrong on so many levels. Now I know: all but a handful were paid off like everyone else and seemingly, were happy to have done so. If these people truly believed what they preached every day, they should ALL have been fighting hard for the rights of their parishioners, not taking the easy way out.