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Covid mask and vaccination mandates aren't Christian persecution
Nothing in the Bible says you can?t wear a mask. But religious objectors know that.
Are mask mandates a form of Christian persecution? That?s the argument a California man is making after his two teens were sent home for violating their high school?s mask policy.
?The Bible says we?re made in the image of God and Satan tries to cover that up. A mask is a sign of oppression,? Gary Nelson told NBC News. And then it gets worse. He claimed that Muslims and Jews would have been accommodated but that the school administrators ?feel safe? persecuting Christians.
These claims are laughable. Nothing in the Bible says you can?t wear masks. And you don?t see anti-masker Christians arguing against wearing clothing or hats or sunglasses. When these conservative Christians start mandating nudity, then they might have a claim about not covering up what God has created.
The Nelson family isn?t alone in making this absurd claim. A Catholic school in Lansing, Michigan, has sued the state over its mask mandate and claimed that ?because God created us in His image, we are masking that image.? Last year, a Republican legislator in Ohio refused to wear a mask, arguing in a Facebook post that the U.S. was founded on ?Judeo-Christian Principles? that include ?we are all created in the image and likeness of God
The first part of his argument is a dangerous but common form of Christian nationalism; the second is a core tenet of both the Jewish and Christian religions. Where he goes into cringe-worthy territory is when he argues that ?that image is seen the most by our face.? That?s simply not part of the biblical story in Genesis, and it has been manufactured out of whole cloth to serve an anti-masker agenda
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Covid mask and vaccination mandates aren't Christian persecution (nbcnews.com)