‘This changes everything’: observations about the current situation in Church and the State

‘This changes everything’: observations about the current situation in Church and the State by Maike Hickson for Life Site News

God lets a crisis in society and in the Church take place so that mankind can amend its ways and find its way back to Him. Just as in our personal lives, it sometimes takes a shocking event to wake us up and change our ways.

Some revolutionary politicians used to remind us: “Don’t let a crisis go to waste.” And Naomi Klein, whose criticism of disaster capitalism my husband once honored, recently claimed in light of the purported threat of a climate crisis: “This changes everything.”

A promotional text for her book of that same title expounds:

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Climate change, Klein argues, is a civilizational wake-up call, a powerful message delivered in the language of fires, floods, storms, and droughts. Confronting it is no longer about changing the light bulbs. It’s about changing the world—before the world changes so drastically that no one is safe.

Either we leap—or we sink.

At the same time, it seems that God has a similar way of talking to us, yet with very different goals.

He lets a crisis in society and in the Church take place so that mankind can amend its ways and find its way back to Him. Just as in our personal lives, it sometimes takes a shocking event to wake us up and change our ways.

I personally think that this is right now happening in Church and society.

And so let us hope we are at a threshold to something much better than what we have gotten used to.

I have learned much from the intellectually honest Dr. Robert Malone, the original inventor of the mRNA vaccine, who is a critic of the current corona policies. He says that the last two years have “changed everything,” to pick up Klein’s motto. He once retweeted a liberal’s tweet, which went, in its substance, like this: here we liberals thought that Donald Trump would usher in a dictatorship, only to wake up and realize that it was our Democratic governors. Malone described himself in an interview with LifeSite’s Jim Hale as “center-left,” but in his honesty, he could not go along with what some of the Democratic policies have become: means of limiting fundamental civil freedoms.

Dr. Malone is not alone. Many people have been shaken by the ease with which politicians were willing to cut down our freedoms. (Nota bene: some of us are also astonished how Donald Trump continues supporting the vaccines.)

When we are at a moment in history where our very own liberties are at stake, “this changes everything,” I would say. We need to re-arrange our thoughts and look at the priorities that emerge from this moment in history.

When recently speaking with Jeanne Smits, my colleague at LifeSite, she brought up the image her mentor Jean Madiran liked to use: when a house is on fire, you welcome any firefighter who is willing to come put down the fire.

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