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Scottish alcohol deaths at 15-year high https://t.co/wKrGLNg2cF
Some bed-time reading for you @_KateForbes and @jasonleitch
This is Christianity.
The #Covid #Jockdown was the opposite.
No student said that Christians would do it today. They all said the church had changed...
I was teaching class today, and the topic came to how the Roman Empire was Christianized.
One of the things that led to many becoming converted was Christian fearlessness in the face of death. This was seen in the famous martyrdoms, but it was also seen in the plagues.
Back then a plague would sweep into town and kill many of the people living within. These plagues did not kill .1% of a population, but would leave many families losing loved ones.
Oftentimes the doctors and wealthy would see a plague and flee out of town. This did not end just with the Roman Empire. When the Black Plague hit London in 1665 it was devastating. Some parts of London lost so many people that the record keepers all died, so we'll never know the exact percentages. But the guess is that there were districts where HALF the population died.
We can't even fathom it. Painful, excruciating, embarrassing, awful deaths of agony. Loved ones, children, family, friends, neighbors, all in an instant swept up in a summer of disease and death.
This was common throughout history.
And it was common to flee from it.
What was uncommon: The Christian response to plague.
They did not run from the town.
They ran to the sick.
While the sick lay dying, they cared for their fevers, fed them, nourished them. They put themselves RIGHT into the mouth of disease and death to heal and care for the sick.
And it made all the difference. People saw that someone cared for their dying loved ones. They saw someone willing to risk their lives to save them.
They saw people who were truly not afraid of death.
It was so powerful in London, so many came to the Puritan side, that the King had to pass the 5 mile act to stop it. In Rome it led to the conversions of countless souls!
Martin Luther helped care for plague victims when it struck Germany in the middle of the Reformation. JC Ryle when he was a country doctor had to go door to door forcing people to drink tea to tend to the sick when his congregation got caught up in an outbreak. Mary Reed went and ministered directly to the leper colonies so that she could share the gospel with those who had been forgotten by history. Jonathan Edwards took care of dying David Brainerd who had tuberculosis, and it cost him his daughter.
The idea of the hospital itself was invented by Christians seeking to take care of the sick.
When I shared these stories with my classes I asked them if they thought Christians were still this fearless in the face of disease and death.
And sadly, we all agreed, that this fearlessness and courage seems to have waned. Although there may be individuals who would do it, it was no longer the norm. In fact, Christians seemed to now live in fear of these things as much as anyone else, they thought.
We have changed. But let us not give up. The church has a long legacy of caring for and healing up the sick and dying.
Let us pray to become fearless again in the face of all things, even disease and death. For there are many lost souls who need us to be bold.

@LesleyRiddoch Lesley, those of us harrassed, bullied, or worse by the obedient enforcers of @PoliceScotland when we marched for freedom from the #Jockdown imposed by the resident of Bute House see your hypocrisy.
Where were you when freedom died in Scotland?
Pleading "Lock me down harder"?
@joannaccherry Hey Joanna, did you ever try speaking out in Scotland against the #Covid #Jockdown?
Thought not.
@TimesRadio @joannaccherry Where was @joannaccherry when those opposing #Jockdown were being threatened, arrested and no-platformed. Where is she when people who say things she does not like are being excluded from the public square?
Posted missing?
@AnasSarwar Don't knock "dysfunctional", it is when they are functional that they do the real harm. and your lot vote in support. As in the creepy, Orwellian child-watching scheme #NamedPerson. You supported that fascist tyranny, you supported the #Jockdown too.
#HumzaUseless day 5
Bute house in #Jockdown after item thrown into basement
@GOVUK providing a @RoyalNavy supply ship short term to help with Ferry shortage & assist Scottish Islanders
Whistle-blower Nurse to be interviewed on claims of Corporate Manslaughter against #Sturgeon
@Lorraine2locked Could it be to do with trying to stop the gathering outside the pretendy parliament on Thursday 🤔🤔 #jockdown
#lizztruss
Well that's it a 100% certainty now #nicolasturgeon @ScotGovFM @HumzaYousaf will have us in #Lockdown #Jockdown soon
#ResignSturgeon
Someone needed to say this and rule out the possibility of ever doing such a despicable thing again. Well done @trussliz.
Liz Truss rules out any more lockdowns if there is a new pandemic
https://t.co/6p8XvKn0ux
@PeteWishart Dear Peetsy
Your cause is flawed
Misjudged your political status
Have liars for leaders
Sent #Covid patients into #CareHomes
#Jockdown for effect not reason
#COVID19 #passport
#Tsunami lies didn't work
Public have got your measure
#Hospitality failures
#SNP
#ResignSturgeon
Jason The Dentist on #BBCBreakfast now doubt trying to defend Tricky Nicky's stupidity in wrecking tourism & hospitality with her ludicrous #omicron #OmicronVariant #jockdown. Its time to #shutdowntheshortbreadsenate & get rid of these Brigadoon bunglers
Full stadiums & everyone having a good time down in England for the #FACup meanwhile Scotland hurtles towards being a 4th world economic basket case under deranged Darien Dreamer Tricky Nicky & her #jockdown Time to #shutdowntheshortbreadsenate
Not even her core voters in the Yes favelas will be paying any attention to her tyranical dictats #jockdown #hogmanay #NYE #jockdown #shutdowntheshortbreadsenate Just because she doesn't want to come out , let her sit in Bridge of Allan being joyless
Nicola Sturgeon urges Scots to stay home with Hogmanay street party celebrations cancelled https://t.co/rI7STqQwO3
Tricky Nicky thinking she can pull the wool over the SNP sheep in the Yes favelas eyes over her needless #jockdown & wrecking hospitality, tourism & retail in Scotland #shutdowntheshortbreadsenate
The SNP are withholding the SNHS Covid statistics because if they release them before New Year, everyone will see how wrong Sturgeon was to close down.
Covid stats in Scotland show Tricky Nicky is holding the place back to avoid having to lose her imaginary #IndyRef2
25 Dec: 8,252 cases
26 Dec: 11,030 cases
27 Dec: 10,562 cases
28 Dec: 9,360 cases
#shutdowntheshortbreadsenate & scrap #jockdown #resignSturgeon
@NicolaSturgeon @scotgov How much are #UK #hospitality prospering compared to #Jockdown laws
#ResignSturgeon
@dealatrip @NicolaSturgeon I see she’s trying to “protect” us with another #jockdown #ResignSturgeon
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