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Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a

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moment of truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. And

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today, I want to ask you, how difficult is it to deprogram someone who has been initiated into the

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COVID cults? First off, we might say, well, it ain't easy, and it isn't. A vast majority of

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Americans have come under the manipulative influence of COVID con men. And helping them

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out is as difficult as bringing a Mooney out of his Mooneyism or a Scientologist out of his

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Scientology. Cult programming is very effective in the hands of a skilled cult groomer. And ours at

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the CDC and the National Institute of Health are nothing else if not skilled cult groomers. They

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certainly are not skilled doctors. Dr. Anthony Fauci has never had a private practice, nor has

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he treated a single patient in his entire life. Rather, he has been a government bureaucrat since

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he began his career in 1985. Fauci has worked his entire career in government agencies, catering to

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big pharma, following the money on drug patents and UN schemes to make money off of the misfortunes

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of the poor of the third world. And this assessment has been abundantly demonstrated over the course of

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the COVID crisis, too. Fauci has been wrong on everything. The number of deaths, for example,

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220,000, a little over this, rather than two and a half million. Or he's been wrong on the lockdowns.

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There's been more deaths from the lockdowns than the disease. And of course, treatments, too. He's

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pushing vaccines off of which he'll make money, rather than building healthy immune systems.

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Oh, dear listener. But what he has been effective at doing is initiating us into a cult, the COVID cult.

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Now, last week, I covered in some detail the three stages of cultic initiation that was first

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clearly articulated by Dr. Arnold Van Gennep. He did this in 1960 in his book, The Rites of Passage.

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And if you listened last week, you may remember those three stages. The first one was separation,

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or what we know as social distancing. That is, taking you away from those that you love,

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taking you away from your social network, from that network of support and love and care

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and guardianship, right? And then marginalization. That's the second stage in Dr. Van Gennep's Rites

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of Passage. Marginalization. That is, they marginalize you. What we call lockdown or shelter

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in place or isolation, where you are very stressfully taken away from your day-to-day routine, from your

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life cycles, from those things that make of your life a regular pattern. And they disrupt that.

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They disintegrate that. It's very threatening, too. This is the stage at which many commit suicide,

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separation, and marginalization. Once they've broken you down, then the cultist comes to stage three,

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which Dr. Van Gennep characterizes as aggregation. Once they've broken you in pieces,

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they aggregate you into a whole. They aggregate you into the image of the cult, or what we call the

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new normal. That's precisely what your cultic handlers have done to you, Dr. Fauci. They have

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given you a new normal, and you've been ushered into this. You have been inculcated into this.

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Oh, at this kind of thing, separation, marginalization, and then aggregation,

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Dr. Fauci and his fellow cult gurus have been amazingly successful. Only they've called it social

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distancing, isolation, and the new normal. Oh, dear listener, how do you know whether you are a

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successfully initiated COVID cult member? Oh, you don't have to be aware. You may say,

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oh, I'm not. This is ridiculous, Pastor. I'm not part of a cult. No. Well, you don't have to be aware

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of your initiation. You do not have to give your consent to cultic initiation. It can be done

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very successfully as long as the initiate passes through the required steps. That's important.

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In fact, some cult groomers consider it a plus if the initiate is completely unaware that he or she

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is undergoing a specific step-by-step initiation. And as well, dear listener, once a person passes

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through the grueling gauntlet of cult initiation, and whether you do this consciously or unconsciously,

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it's almost impossible to get you back. Once you've undergone this traumatic, systematic

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initiation, you have undergone an intense, life-changing experience. And like the mythic

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Ulysses, it is a death-defying odyssey to return home. Very few people do. It means renouncing all that

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one has become. You have to renounce your new self. You have to renounce the new normal in order to go

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back. And that's traumatic. The human psyche just doesn't want to do that. And so you remain in

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your new normal. You may be a COVID cultist, dear listener. I want you to be patient with me here on

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these eight things. I'm going to take a page from Jeff Foxworthy. You may remember he made a fortune

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and became a real comic hero with his, you may be a redneck if, well, you may be a COVID cultist if

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you look in the rear view mirror while driving. And suddenly you realize that you're wearing your

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mask, even though you're riding alone in your car. But you keep it on anyway. Oh, you may be a real

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COVID cultist if you do that. You may also be a real COVID cultist if you feel a rising sense of panic

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when you realize that someone has inadvertently come within five feet of you, transgressing the

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six foot distancing rule, and you reach for your pepper spray just in case he gets any closer. Oh,

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you are a real COVID cultist if you respond like this. You may also be a COVID cultist if you wait

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breathlessly every night at the TV as it covers 24-7 around the clock the COVID crisis. And you're

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feeling a sense of calm and reassurance when you see St. Anthony come on the screen to pontificate

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about some new obscure detail or nuance of the virus. And you think, I really feel safe now.

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Oh, dear listener, you may be a COVID cultist if you believe that the virus is killing millions of

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people and that every word that the mainstream media says about it is true. And that by staying home

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until there's a vaccine, you feel really, really safe, right? Oh, you may be a COVID cultist if you wake

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up one day and realize in a rare moment of lucidity that six months of your life have gone by under

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lockdown and fear and emptiness, and you feel like a caged gerbil, but you shake it off and you say,

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it was worth it. I feel safe. Ah, dear listener, you may be indeed a COVID cultist if you know that more

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people have died as a result of the lockdown than we'll ever die of the China virus. And this is true.

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Oh, this is true. So much evidence of this. I just refer you to the City Journal, and that was published

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the issue on July 9th of 2020, written by Joel Zinberg, and he entitles his article Death by Policy

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from the City Journal. And he says, and I quote, the five states with the most COVID-19 deaths from March

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through April, and he gives those states as Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York,

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and Pennsylvania, these five states experienced large proportional increases in deaths from

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non-respiratory underlying causes. And they include, listen to this, a 96% increase in diabetes deaths,

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an 89% increase in heart disease deaths, a 64% increase in deaths from Alzheimer's, and then a 35%

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increase in cerebrovascular disease, deaths from cerebrovascular disease, 35% increase over this period

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of time. Oh, and yet, even though deaths from other things like these have increased way over the

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China virus deaths from the lockdown, and you're all right with this, and yet you say, oh, well,

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it was worth it. You cannot be anything but a COVID cultist, if that's how you feel. You may be a

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COVID cultist if you wonder why everyone isn't as careful as you are by wearing masks and gloves and

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washing everything and hand sanitizer, and you're social distancing, you're staying at home, except

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maybe to buy groceries, and you remind everyone around you of your responsibilities, right?

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Even if your name isn't Karen. You may be a COVID cultist if you act this way. You may be a COVID

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cultist if you think everyone who doesn't wear a mask is a reckless, uncivilized Neanderthal who

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doesn't care about his fellow human beings and is actually threatening the health and well-being of

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you and everyone around you by not wearing a mask, and you call the police. Oh, you may indeed be a

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COVID cultist, even though the CDC website itself concludes their article. I urge you to look this

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up. The article on the website called Interim Guidance for the Use of Masks to Control Seasonal

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Influenza Virus Transmission, and they conclude with this disclaimer. They say no recommendation can

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be made at this time for mask use in the community by asymptomatic persons, including those at high

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risk for complications to prevent exposure to influenza viruses, unquote. Dear listener, frankly,

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there is little hope for such a one as you, if you indeed think this way and behave this way.

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You are a fervent, committed disciple of St. Anthony in the COVID cult. No one in this category

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of cultists will ever be redeemed. You're hopeless. This state of heart and mind is aptly termed

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brainwashing. You are brainwashed, if you indeed think this way. Oh, one of my favorite research

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websites called Psychology has an extensive article on brainwashing, and they define brainwashing as,

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and I quote, brainwashing is a term that was adopted by the press to describe the indoctrination of U.S.

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prisoners of war during the Korean War. Social scientists now recognize brainwashing as a form

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of severe indoctrination, marked by physical and psychological stress, intense social pressure,

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and a variety of persuasion techniques. What does that sound like, dear listener? And they conclude by

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saying, this form of intense indoctrination usually promotes some particular form of political

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or religious doctrine. Ding, ding, ding, ding. Oh, a political doctrine is being promoted in

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the coronavirus pandemic scare. And they conclude by saying, often entailing costly sacrifices by

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adherents. That's precisely what's going on. And as we sacrifice our country on behalf of the COVID

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cult, first of all, observe with me, the severe stress Americans are undergoing. Number one is the

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the severe stress. All of America has been put under severe stress, haven't we? All of America has been

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put under severe stress, emotional and physical stress due to the fear of an unseen virus whose

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infection and death rates have been cynically manipulated and sensationalized in order to control

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us. Fear, long been acknowledged. Fear is one of the most effective means of control and has been used for

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centuries to manipulate human behavior. It's being used today. Alarmists try to control us with fear by

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sensationalizing, for example, cases. Ah, how have you heard in the news recently? Oh, the uptick of cases,

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which go up precisely because testing has increased. Oh, but even the cases are an illusion because the

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tests themselves are notoriously unreliable. The ubiquitous measure for detecting the COVID-19 virus is the PCR test,

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that is the polymerase chain reaction, the polymerase chain reaction, PCR test. Now, Dr. Nick Delgado in the

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medical website, the Delgado Protocol, he says this about the PCR test, Dr. Nick Delgado. He says,

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and I quote, PCR was invented by Kerry Mullis in 1985. And parenthetically, he won the Nobel Prize for

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chemistry for this test because it was so significant. He says, the PCR was invented by

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Kerry Mullis in 1985, but it was not invented with the purpose of detecting disease. Its primary intended

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applications included biomedical research and criminal forensics. It is a needle in a haystack

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technology that can be extremely deceptive in the diagnosis of infectious diseases. And the inventor

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himself argued against using PCR as a diagnostic tool for infections. Oh, dear listener, this is

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exactly what the very inventor himself, Kerry Mullis said, it's not meant for medical use. And then

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Dr. Delgado goes on to a quote, Dr. David Raznick, who was a biochemist and a protease developer. That

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is, this is in his wheelhouse. This is the stuff he deals with. And Dr. Raznick says, and I quote,

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I'm skeptical that a PCR test is ever true. It's a great scientific research tool. It's a horrible

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tool for clinical medicine, unquote. Oh, but yet it's being used across the board, isn't it?

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So unreliable is the PCR test in medical diagnoses that up to 50% of the test, when they are scrutinized,

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they are false positives. And when administered to asymptomatic people, up to 80% of the tests come up

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false positives. Yet the chicken little mainstream media right here in Idaho Falls,

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the chicken little mainstream media run around attempting to panic us into another disastrous

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lockdown by screaming, the sky is falling, the sky is falling, because cases are going up. What a ruse.

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You and I are being manipulated by fear of an unseen enemy into cultic behaviors. The severe stress that

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has subjected us to this has had disastrous consequences, too, for our economy, our culture,

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the very fabric we have as a people. And it's also reflected in the second symptom of brainwashing.

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Yes, there is a second symptom of brainwashing, and that is intense social pressure. Intense

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social pressure. Are you feeling it yet, dear listener? The intense social pressure? The CDC,

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quite frankly, has war-gamed how to bring Americans into compliance, and they have found intense social

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pressure to be one of the most effective means to accomplish these ends. People don't want to be seen

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as being counterproductive or dangerous to the public good in a time of crisis and threats to life,

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do they? In times when the well-being of the whole community hangs in the balance,

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even one uncooperative member can pose a threat to the whole. No one wants to be that one dangerous

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jerk, do they? And so, even though you're not convinced of a mask's effectiveness, and that's

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a good impulse, that's a good instinct, because they are not effective. And I refer you to my lecture

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last week, where I demonstrated from the science that masks are not effective. And even though you

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may be persuaded of this, or you may doubt their effectiveness, nevertheless, you strap on your

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face diaper as you're walking into Winco, so that you won't stand out, and you'll show that you're a part

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of the team, and you won't invoke the displeasure of the Karens who walk among us, and you won't have

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them, then, enforce the abysmal ignorance of the mark of the medical beast, that is, the great mask

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of compliance, the true sign of the COVID cult. But it works, doesn't it? Intense social pressure

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works. No one has done their homework to see whether masks are effective at stopping viral

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infections. Anybody who wears a mask hasn't done their homework, much less doing their homework to

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see whether they might not indeed be counterproductive to one's health by, for example, inhibiting

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oxygen intake. That's my wife's situation. When she wears a mask, she gets headaches, or nobody has

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done their homework to see whether they might be counterproductive in creating a virtual petri dish

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of other biological infections, which masks do. Oh, dear listener. In fact, it has been demonstrated that

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one of the major killers in the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918 was the very masks worn, as today, right?

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Masks are worn today with the same effect to ostensibly protect against the virus. But these

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same masks unintentionally killed thousands precisely because they created a culture in the mask of other

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infectious diseases. Oh, but dear listener, reason goes a beggar, doesn't it? When the powerful force of

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intense social pressure is administered culture-wide. People stop thinking. People stop reasoning.

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People stop investigating and researching. But rather, they put their minds on cruise control.

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It must be true. You know, this disease and its effects and the cases and the mask and all of it

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must be true. Everyone else is doing it, aren't they? Can a million people be wrong? Dear listener,

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can a million people be wrong? Look how many people voted for Biden, for Joe Biden, and tell me a million

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people can't be wrong. Or they say, and I hear this and see this around me all the time, I just don't

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want the hassle, right? I have enough trouble in my life without bringing down a lot of unnecessary

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negativity on me by not wearing a mask, even though, you know, it's wrong. Or I heard one person say,

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I heard one person having the ignorance and audacity to say, what harm is it doing even if it doesn't

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work? What harm is it doing? Ah, you COVID cultist. Dear listener, I dare say that if you look honestly

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at what has happened to you, what's happened to me, what's happened to your neighbors over these last

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few months, you'd have to say that this brainwashing technique of pressure, social pressure, has been

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very effective in changing you. You have been changed by the COVID cult and their brainwashing.

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Now, once again, quote extensively from this research website, Psychology, their article on

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brainwashing is very good. And they say, and I quote, peer pressure is known to be particularly

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effective when an individual faces a united consensus, especially if the individual is confused,

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frightened, or facing an ambiguous issue. Isn't this what America has faced over the last six to eight

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months? This united consensus from the media, from the government, right? Even though we have reasons

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to question, nevertheless, many Americans have been confused, frightened, and facing this ambiguous

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issue, haven't they? And we've been manipulated. Well, they go on to say, psychology goes on to say,

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and I quote, people's ability to resist a flawed persuasive message, a flawed persuasive message,

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is particularly impaired when they lack the opportunity to think clearly about inadequacies of the

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message due to fear, sleep deprivation, and or overactivity, unquote. We have been presented with

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this COVID COVIDiasy. We have been presented with a flawed persuasive message. If you bother to scratch

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the surface, if you bother to go deep, if you bother to research, you will find this flawed persuasive

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message. Your ability to resist it has been indeed impaired because you've been scared. You've been

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deprived of various realities around you. And the website goes on to say, and I quote, moreover,

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when like-minded individuals, such as those found in extremist groups, discuss a topic they basically

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agree upon, the result is a polarization of opinion with group members taking a more extreme view after

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discussion. Yes, this happens time and time again in cults, doesn't it? We talk ourselves into believing

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what the cult is putting forth. That's happened with us. And the more we talk ourselves into it,

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the more blind we become, the more like a herd animals we become in our opinions. And they go on

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to say, similarly, extreme attitudes also result when people find that others share and admire their

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opinions. In addition, when individuals agree to costly and public sacrifices, they have a strong

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tendency to justify such actions by intensifying any attitudes that support these acts, a process

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referred to as the reduction of cognitive dissonance. We do this, don't we? The more we sacrifice,

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the more we hate to admit that we were wrong in making those sacrifices because they were so costly.

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We want to rather reinforce those sacrifices. And people are doing it in the midst of this COVID

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controversy, this COVID cultism. They are indeed reducing cognitive dissonance. There may be questions

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that arise about it. Why am I doing this? Why is this taking so long? Why are they keep doubling back

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and doubling down on their lockdowns? We may have a cognitive dissonance here, but we double down

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on it. And we reduce that cognitive dissonance by justifying our actions. Ah, dear listener,

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this is happening time and time again. We are being in an emotional context, as they say, as the

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psychology website puts it. In this emotional context, the intense indoctrination associated with

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the term brainwashing combined to create a persuasive me-you that, at least for some targets,

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has the power to evoke surprising changes in both belief and behavior. Unquote. It's happening to us,

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dear listener. And then, of course, there have been a variety of other persuasive techniques besides the

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most effective, that is social pressure. Those charged with implementing government policy on the

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China virus, they have experimented and brainstormed with a variety of ways to get you to comply in

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in addition to that most effective means, social pressure. And these brainwashing techniques

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include the force of law. And that is being increasingly brought to bear on us, isn't it?

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City ordinances or edicts by dictatorial governors, they're all being enforced by local police across

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the nation. In addition, things like travel restrictions and access to public places, entry into stores and

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shops are all being increasingly conditioned on your compliance to everything from masks to temperature

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swipes, right? To, in the very near future, this is happening, this is coming. In the very near future,

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you will be subjected to documentation of your test, your COVID test status. And you will be subjected

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to then documentation on your vaccine status. Are you up to date on all your vaccines? It's not going

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to be just one. Dear listener, we have become a nation of sheep. We have become a nation of sheep

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who refuse to do our homework. We'd rather comply. It's a lot easier. Rather than realistically seeking

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the gold standard of health in our present state of COVID-acy, that gold standard of health being

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herd immunity, even as Sweden has done. They had a lot of uptick in cases and so forth, but that's

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over with now. It's behind them because they have achieved herd immunity. Rather than seeking this,

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we have pursued the herd mentality whereby we follow blindly the rear end in front of us like a cow,

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like a herd mentality. We follow that rear end in front of us wherever it leads, whether it leads

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to the slaughterhouse or over a cliff. I recently heard a virologist say in passing, and this is so

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good. He says, there's no defeating a virus. You can't make war on a virus. It's too small,

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too ever-present, too adaptive, too eliminate, unquote. That's so true. To think that you can

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defeat a virus, that's hubris. What is effective and what is only effective, dear listener, is your

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marvelous God-given immune system. Oh, as Dr. Delgado says on his website, and I love this, Dr. Delgado

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says, we need to stop saying, stay safe to everyone. We are safe. We have a powerful and

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intelligent immune system that is designed to withstand toxic microbial inundation at all times.

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This is what will indeed deliver us from this so-called crisis, dear listener. By the hand of God,

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you have an immune system that will help defeat all comers. This has been Pastor David Bass at New

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Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church, and we meet for holy worship at New Geneva. We are not a part

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of the COVID cult. Come without your mask to our worship service at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the

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corner of 4th and Boulevard. Once again, we meet New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church meets on

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Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard, and you can call us for more

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information or some feedback at area code 208-523-0196.