Two of the problems that American Christians have (in this case Canadian Christians, but I have some familiarity with Canadian Christians, and know that they share these problems with Americans) is that they often use a false definition of “church”, and that they seem incapable of differentiating between valid and invalid authorities.
That is touched on by these Canadians being harassed for meeting on Sundays despite their evil government’s order to stop due to the coronasniffles. They have all of a sudden grown a spine, and that has been my hope for what the silver lining of this travesty would be for all of us.
Their response to the government is mostly good. You can see it here. But here are their serious errors.
Problem 1
“For years we have taught our children to respect policeā¦”
Police have shown little to no evidence that they’re willing to ignore unjust laws. They’ve never hinted that they would do anything other than what evil politicians tell them, even standing by while 60 million babies are murdered. Teaching our children to respect police is foolish. Their abuse at the hands of police is them reaping what they’ve sown. Hopefully this incident helps them gain repentance on this issue.
Problem 2
The second problem is equivocating on the definition of church:
“Our Saviour shed His blood to purchase the church, and therefore deeming the church ‘unessential’ is tantamount to deeming the blood of Christ unessential, which is a public act of blasphemy.”
Their first use of the word church refers to the body of believers (people). Their second use of church refers to the meeting they have on Sunday morning. The government didn’t say the people purchased by Christ are unessential; it said their meeting is unessential.
That being said, fellowship is essential, and hopefully they continue to defy evil government and evil police.