Sue your doctor – We pay our doctors exorbitant fees – TO KNOW – this stuff. If there is any doubt that a covid shot is not absolutely essential for your health, your baby’s health or Grandma’s, then they should not be administered. Until they know, as your health advisor they should be erring on the side of patient safety. This would seem to be the moral and ethical thing to do. Right?

In Europe if your doctor administers a covid shot and you get myocarditis, have seizures, blood clots, a stroke, a brain injury or you die, your doctor can now be sued. He is being paid to know this stuff. If you get sick or die because he did not do his due diligence you or your family can now sue.

In the pharmaceutical industry, heinous medical crimes are committed daily and with complete immunity. Covid will hopefully teach us a new morality and help us to reign in big business from taking total control of government and destroying basic human values for what is right and what is wrong. This is not complicated, this is Morality 101 frequently followed in the presence of God. Money is now trying to replace him but eventually they will lose. We have a long way to go, monied interests seem in control now. It will take God, spirit, and several light workers to grow a new belief system based in love energy, creativity and with an enlightened conscience.

It can be done. We can prove them all wrong. I know, I have done it. When no one else believed I could recover from what was labeled a severe brain injury, I did. Rather than being a hopeless and helpless victim I became an empowered individual. I began to think for myself and to create. I expect and I demand honesty, openness and compassion from our government. Remember the phrase? A government by and for the people? What ever happened to the concept of Public Servants?

This is a war for your heart and soul. Your apathy now will lead to the death of both. – Chris Pratt, owner/operator of the Bridgewater Barn

Stacey Abrams: In 2019, she had a net worth of $100K and didn’t have money to pay her taxes. 4 years later her net worth increased to over $3M and owns a$1.5M house in Atlanta. In the closing days of Biden’s administration her NGO got over $1B grant from him. These people know how to game the system and pay themselves outrageous salaries they’d never make in the private sector.   I sure hope DOGE investigates these waste, fraud and abuses of our tax dollars.  

–Frank Mazur, South Burlington

Blood donors gender preference? – I sent the following message to the American Red Cross via their website: Why do you ask potential blood donors for their gender preference before accepting them as donors?  Regretfully, today, April 18, 2025, I was asked this question, and I refused to answer.  I was told my refusal would render me ineligible to provide a donation.  Please understand, before arriving at the donation site (Central Vermont Hospital in Berlin, Vermont) I had completed the Rapid Pass on my computer at home and indicated my gender as “Male.”  I explained this to your employee, and she acknowledged I had completed the Rapid Pass.  Despite having already identified myself as male in writing, she asked me to provide my gender preference.  And, without identifying my “preference,” as if my gender could somehow change in less than two hours, she said I would not be able to provide a blood donation.  I asked the employee to inform her higher ups at the Red Cross and she said, “Talk to the charge nurse.”  I did speak to the charge nurse and she said she would explain what happened in her email report at the end of the day.  

Please explain.  Would my answer to the gender preference question somehow change your use of my blood?  Is the blood of persons sadly afflicted with gender dysphoria used in a different way?   I for one refuse to perpetuate the nonsense by participating in it.  Please explain to me the reason you ask this question. -Tom Kelly, Barre

God created the universe, and man within it, with distinct and immutable existences, images, and laws defining their extents and limitations, rights, freedoms, liberties and constraints. These cannot be altered or intruded upon by others, nor should attempts to do so be made.

Later came the nations. Any nation following God’s law will be blessed (Deuteronomy 28:1-14; Psalm 33:12), and any nation not doing so will be cursed (Deuteronomy 6:15-17.).

God as Creator set an established hierarchy into all things, He and His law standing at its peak.  Man is not to alter or attempt to overthrow God’s order. Violating man’s incontrovertible rights is an affront to God – a devaluing of both God and man, saying God does not matter, and man has no worth – he is not created in God’s image, and can be redefined at any time, as another man may decide to declare. So, a government violating God’s laws for mankind is in rebellion against the King of Kings. Throughout history, God raised figures like Moses, Gideon, Ehud, Jephthah, Samson, Esther, and Deborah to challenge tyrannical governments and restore Israel under the kingship of God. These individuals are all commended in Hebrews 11.

Despite what some Christians may claim, God does not endorse rulers merely because they hold positions of power. Throughout history, until the 17th century, the church practiced the principle of “rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God,” which contrasts with the modern church’s blind, passive, even patriotic obedience to the secular state. Even within Israel, God in Hosea 8:4 states of his people “They set up kings without my consent; they choose princes without my approval.” Kings can commit abominations when they engage in evil acts (Proverbs 16:12; 28:15). Therefore, not everything they do is just or aligned with the will of God. In fact, it ought to be the Christians who are known for refusing to obey Pagan society, instead holding fast to God and his law.

In Acts 5, Peter replies to the officials, “We must obey God rather than human beings!” God’s word and law are above man’s (Acts 4:19). Additionally, Peter disobeyed authority in Acts 5:29. In 2 Kings chapter 11, the tyrant Queen Athaliah declared treason against those who followed God, but Jehoiada, the priest, had her executed, affirming God’s authority is above any ruler. Similarly, in Daniel 6, the prophet Daniel hears of an unjust law contradicting God’s commands and deliberately chooses to rebel against it.

 Jeremiah was arrested for treason for standing on God’s word when he told Israel to surrender rather than go to war as the King wanted. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to obey government authority when they were commanded to worship an idol. Rahab disobeyed her king and was praised for it in Hebrews 11 and James 2:25, as did the midwives in Hebrews 11:23. In Sacred Scripture Sacred war the Bible and the American Revolution, historian James P Byrd noted the American Revolution’s logic by writing “Rehoboam justified rebellion against a king…if any government violated the precepts of God and liberty, the people were obliged to rebel.”

In 1 Kings 21, Elijah becomes seen as “the enemy” of King Ahab. In 2 Kings 1, king Ahaziah, who had sought another god and been judged, sends a captain and men to Elijah, requesting he come down from the hill to speak with the King. However, Elijah, empowered by the angel of the Lord, calls down fire and kills the captain and his men. The king sends another captain and men, and the event is repeated.  The men of God also resisted king Uzziah for trying to overstep his authority and enter into the priest’s realm (2 Chronicles 26:18). And in his book The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates A Proper resistance to Tyranny and a Repudiation of Unlimited Obedience to Civil Government, pastor Matthew J Trewhella concludes, “When the state commands that which God forbids, or forbids that which God commands, we are to obey God rather than man.”

God often sent prophets to Kings who stepped outside of His law. Samuel was sent to confront Saul, Nathan and Gad sent to David, Isaiah was sent to Manasseh. The Apostles were in and out of jail and killed for preaching Jesus. In 2 Corinthians 11:32-33 Paul escaped government officials and in Acts 16, Paul and Silas refused orders to simply depart after unjust imprisonment, and told the magistrates to come themselves, and admit to their injustice.  Jesus resisted authorities when they often tried to kill him.

Paul curses the sorcerer governor Bar-Jesus and Joseph disobeyed Herod by bringing his family to Egypt as did believers in Matthew 10:23. The early generations of Christians would not obey imperial law, burning incense to the Roman emperor, and would declare only one God.  Jesus was killed for treason and crucified as “King of the Jews,” as there was to be no king but Caesar. In Acts 13:6-11, Paul preached Jesus as King and was also accused of treason. In Acts 17:7 we discover the believers “…are all defying Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is another King, one called Jesus.” And in Luke 23:2 the authorities condemned Jesus because  “We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that He Himself is Christ, a King.”

The Maccabees Revolt

Jesus celebrated Hanukkah in remembrance of the Maccabee’s refusal to conform to the pagan government and society. The Maccabees are also praised in the “hall of faith” in Hebrews 11:35-36 and v. 38. The Greek government over Israel sought to outlaw Judaism and assimilate Jews into the Greek culture so they would not be so rebellious.  “Those who obey the Torah rather than the king were publicly put to death.” “Jerusalem was no longer free but became a slave.” The government authority wanted to recreate Jews in its own image 1 Maccabees 1:41. Those Jews who conformed with Greek culture and obeyed the government were those who “hated their own nation.”

So the Maccabees fought a war of resistance against pagan rule, and they stayed separate as a people following the laws of Moses and would not conform to the government’s demands. In 1 Maccabees 2:19-22, the Maccabees followed Moses’ laws and ordinances, not the Kings.  In v. 24, Mattathias, driven by righteous anger, killed an assimilated Jew and one of the King’s officials and tore down government-placed altars. They, “rescued the law out of the hands of the Gentiles and kings, and they never let the sinner gain the upper hand” (1 Maccabees 2:48.)   

 Render Unto Caesar

  In order to reject the clear examples and commands of God regarding the issue we have discussed, some will point to this statement Jesus made while being tested and claim it was his endorsement of blind obedience to the state. One passage should never be removed from the rest of the Bible and turned into doctrine, this statement included.

The Pharisees and the Herodians are trying to trap Jesus here, forcing either one group or the other to go against him. The Pharisees are anti-Roman control and would like Jesus to say do not pay taxes. The Herodians however were pro-Roman occupation, their power dependent on Roman control. If Jesus said not to pay taxes, they could report Him to Roman authorities for execution. If he says pay the taxes, He loses support among the Jewish people and Pharisees. So Jesus gives a vague answer, insuring neither group gets what it wants.

Pastor Ted R Weiland points out here, if Jesus taught His disciples to render to Caesar, they did not get the message. They claimed only Jesus was king, and died for it! (Acts 17:6-7). Mr. Weiland wrote it was “Never meant to be general instruction to everyone, but only to those who forsake Yahweh’s authority.” Jesus was using their word against them – forcing them to choose Caesar or God.

But the question avoids the real issue, as Stephen McDowell wrote in The Bible America’s Source of Law and Liberty, “The problem we have in America today is we have rendered unto Cesar the things that are Gods.” As Christopher Ferrara wrote the argument “Overlooks Caesar’s duty to render unto God what is His – that is, obedience to His law and reverence for His majesty.” In The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates: A Proper Resistance to Tyranny and a Repudiation of Unlimited Obedience to Civil Government. Pastor Matthew J Trewhella wrote, “When Jesus said render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and to Gods the things that are God’s, He was making clear the civil government has limitations. The state is not the ;be all and end all.’” And in Nullifying Tyranny, authors James and Walter Kennedy wrote, “Render unto Caesar things that belong to government, obey legitimate laws enacted by government.” In Romans 13 the True Meaning of Submission, Timothy and Chuck Baldwin write,  “Caesar may inscribe a picture on a piece of gold, but where Caesar has stolen gold from a rightful holder, it cannot be rightly stated that Caesar is owed the gold coin.”

So, we must ask what belongs to Caesar. In the American form of government, what is Caesar or who is Caesar? In America, we, the people, and the Constitution are as close to Caesar as it gets. Jesus also said, “Render unto god what are gods.” The whole earth is the lord’s Psalm 24.1; thus, even Caesar [or any man in authority] must render to god the ultimate authority.  If we rendered all to God, nothing would be left for Caesar. 

What if Caesar had said we need your children for child sacrifice? Should we render? We should render to Caesar what God says belongs to him Romans 13:1-7.  We are to resist the devil and wicked rulers and stand on God’s word and proper laws.