Who knows how many lives might have been saved in the pandemic if churches like Calvary Chapel in San Jose and all over America hadn’t been carrying signs saying “Jesus is my vaccine” and acting out against public health science and authority. In the time of Moses and later in the time of Jesus, religion was the leading force in public health and science in general. Moses’ quarantine of the children of Israel during an epidemic in Egypt gave them the strength to make an exodus from that oppressive nation. Jesus told a leper he examined and healed to go report his change in condition to the priest, who was the public health officer of the day. He spent his time healing, not spreading. Judaism and Christianity have gone from the leading edge of progress in the world to the trailing edge. God must not be too pleased.
