No person should be deprived of their ability, in good conscience and freewill, to question and refuse a proposed medical treatment. Neither the efficacy nor the safety of the available injections has been sufficiently determined. Normal safety studies have not been done. The long-term effects on people both physically and spiritually are unknown. Many people for good reasons still have very substantial ethical, moral, and spiritual concerns about the development, ingredients, and effects of the proffered injection. But some in the Church are all to willing to trample upon the conscience of their brothers and sisters in Christ, whether out of fear or out of unquestioning faith in the honesty of government, its chosen experts, and the mainstream media. The concerns of many Christians are not due to politics or ignorance but are based firmly upon their deep faith and belief in Christ and their love for truth. A troubling new ideology is developing in which even Christians are willing to advocate the “necessity” for the “greater good” of forcing vaccination – injections – against the will and conscience of another believer, in the name of “love.” Such attempts at compulsion through manipulating and distorting the meaning of “love” are abhorrent to the Christian and a distortion of true love found within the phronema of the Church. https://orthodoxreflections.com/orthodox-resistance-to-vaccine-mandates-men-have-become-wolves-to-men/

The vaccine mandates around the world are causing harm to untold millions. New resources page is dedicated to essential resources for:
Applying for exemptions, particularly religious
Medical impacts of mRNA “vaccines”
Immoral nature of vaccine mandates https://orthodoxreflections.com/category/coronavirus/vaccine-mandate-essentials/

Speaking from experience, prior to working in pharmaceuticals, my colleagues (nurses and physicians) and I were not taught to report adverse events related to vaccines via the FDA’s VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System). The only people I spoke with who were aware of VAERS, previous to COVID-19, were pharmacists. Although “healthcare providers are required by law to report to VAERS,” (VAERS, n.d.) an alarmingly small percentage of health care providers are aware of the system. Of those that are, few take the time to report adverse events related to vaccines via VAERS (McNeil et al., 2013). Even during COVID-19, I have colleagues, who are physicians, who say they are the only ones in their practice reporting events via VAERS because the rest of their colleagues: are not aware of how to report, ridicule them for being “anti-vaxx” if they report, or find the VAERS reporting system too complicated. Another disturbing mentality related to me by my colleagues is how patients suffering possible adverse events related to the vaccines (including cardiac events) would ask their physicians to report the event, but the physicians would refuse and reassure them that the events are not related. However, per the EUA’s of COVID-19 vaccines, “irrespective of attribution to vaccination,” it is illegal for these healthcare providers not to report events, especially serious adverse events resulting in death, hospitalization, etc.

My colleagues (physicians and professors at teaching institutions, including cardiologists and oncologists) have witnessed a large number of serious and even deadly cardiovascular related events. Some of them have even estimated a five-fold increase of myocarditis cases this year. Ironically, all of the physicians (including cardiologists) I spoke with strongly recommend against the Moderna vaccine, but have admitted also seeing thrombotic and other cardiovascular cases with patients receiving some of the other COVID-19 vaccines. https://orthodoxreflections.com/answering-afr-on-covid-and-the-vaccines-with-fr-john-parker-and-dr-ryan-sampson-nash/

Elpidophoros did not incense the average person of Greek descent enough until his recent behaviour at the inauguration of the Turkish House in NYC. Only about 15% of Greeks belong to the Church. But ALL Greeks support their ancestral homeland.
https://orthodoxreflections.com/modern-day-janissaries/

While we cannot say for certain that “THE” Anti-Christ is here, we can safely say all the elements are here to facilitate his rise. Big Tech, Big Pharma, and our own government combine to make total control of our lives a real possibility for the first time in history. If you deny this, you are living in an alternate reality.

The question is not whether these forces are trying to control us, but rather will we let them they actually pull it off? https://orthodoxreflections.com/eve-of-destruction-preserving-the-orthodox-christian-faith/

Firstly we must speak the truth: this is a two-tiered society. This is medical apartheid. This is not a matter of being cooperative over a health concern.

Secondly, those who are vaccinated must refuse the privileges, stand with their brothers and sisters in Christ. Don’t go to the wedding reception where they are going to separate the vaccinated and unvaccinated, like putting the black folk at the back of the bus in Selma, Alabama. Be brave. Try not to patronize their restaurants as long as only the elect are allowed to be seated.

Do your best – I know this is difficult!

In Russia, when they tried to introduce these passports, everyone stopped shopping, and it all screeched to a halt in a few days!

We must decide whom we serve – God or Mammon – God or our desire to shop, and to eat, and to have fun. This is our test, our fast, our asceticism.

Finally, brethren, if a church practices medical apartheid – the separation of the so-called vaccinated and unvaccinated, stay out of that church.
https://orthodoxreflections.com/a-return-of-evil-signs/

We read in the Gospel, the Lord planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, built a tower in it, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country, until the season came to collect the fruits from it. But those who had been left to care for that land beat the Lord’s servants, and killed some, and stoned some others.

Then last of all He sent unto them his Son, saying, They will reverence my Son. But when those husbandmen saw that Son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. (Matthew 21:33-38)

Time and time again, this is what we have seen in the fallen world. Time and time again, evil men have seized on the land the Lord has entrusted to their care. Time and time again, evil men have created two classes of men:

The blacks and the whites.

The Jews and the Gentiles.

The vaxxed and the unvaxxed.

Saint John Chrysostom tells us that the intention of such men – such rulers – is evil from the beginning. https://orthodoxreflections.com/a-return-of-evil-signs/

We updated our health impacts article to replace a banned YouTube video on vaccine impacts on fertility with a nurse whistleblower. COVID patients are being treated with Remdesivir and stuck on ventilators, and it’s killing them.
https://orthodoxreflections.com/true-health-impacts-of-covid-vaccines-multiple-resources/#murder

If you are concerned about challenges to your COVID vaccine religious exemption over the previous use of products / medicines that were developed or tested using aborted fetal cell lines, then you need to read this article from an Orthodox physician.
"But what about CHOICE? Do bioethics not support choice? Where are these ethics when society allows a woman to choose between keeping or aborting her baby but does not allow a consumer to choose whether or not the product he/she consumes is derived from the cells of that aborted baby? Is this lack of choice ethical? It is absolutely NOT ethical, which is why I fully expected Dr. Nash, in his podcast, to describe how he, as a prominent bioethicist who self-identifies as Orthodox, was working towards advocating for that CHOICE. Even God gives us choices between good and evil and every grey area in between. How can we claim to live in a free society when the use of aborted fetal cell lines has become so systemic, thanks in part to the concealment of their use for so long, that when it comes down to choosing an ethically sourced drug, there is no choice?"
https://orthodoxreflections.com/the-aborted-bioethics-of-ancient-faith-radios-fr-john-parker-dr-ryan-sampson-nash/

The data show the FDA has gone from a drug approval rate of 38% in 2005 to 61% in 2018. In situations where a drug is aimed at a disease where few medication options already exist, 89% of new drug applications are approved on the first try. 21% of FDA approved medications ultimately had to be removed from the market or be given a black box warning. Essentially, if you’re taking a newly approved drug, the chances that this drug will be found to be extremely dangerous is 1 in 5. Only one in ten new drugs provide substantial benefit compared to existing, established drugs. The malfeasance of the FDA has been so bad that prescription drugs are the 4th leading cause of death. American patients also suffer from about 80 million mild side effects a year, such as aches and pains, digestive discomforts, sleepiness or mild dizziness.

The conflicts of interest at the personal and agency levels account for the seemingly bizarre behavior of the FDA. Well, ‘bizarre’ if you think the mandate is protecting the American people.
https://orthodoxreflections.com/the-corruption-at-the-heart-of-covid-forever/

Ancient Faith Radio has a board member that worked for Pfizer for 19 years. Is that previously undisclosed conflict of interest responsible for the one-sided coverage of the COVID vaccines?
https://orthodoxreflections.com/does-ancient-faith-radio-have-a-vaccine-conflict-of-interest/

Concise talking points, and we are beginning to compile a running list of Orthodox & RC bishops who are opposed to the vax, the mandates, or both. If you have suggestions to add, please leave comments.
https://orthodoxreflections.com/concise-covid-vaccine-talking-points/

In the post below, we outline three major arguments for religious exemptions that can all work together – 1) Abortion and aborted fetal cells usage are abhorrent to Orthodox Christians 2) Orthodox Saints have commanded us to avoid these vaccines and as their spiritual children we must obey 3) We have been given free will by God which is sacred, and cannot be overridden by any mandate that violates our conscience. https://orthodoxreflections.com/for-covid-vaccine-religious-exemptions-your-sincerely-held-beliefs-are-what-matter/

There’s no such thing as a “religious exemption REQUEST.” It’s the LAW. It’s the employer’s burden, not yours. All you have to do is NOTIFY THEM of your sincerely-held religious or moral beliefs. Stop thinking you have to beg for it.
https://orthodoxreflections.com/for-covid-vaccine-religious-exemptions-your-sincerely-held-beliefs-are-what-matter/

A former president of the American Medical Association said COVID vaccine program is the biggest biological catastrophe in human history and no one knows how to stop it. If you watch only one video on vaccines and COVID, then make it this one.
https://orthodoxreflections.com/true-health-impacts-of-covid-vaccines-multiple-resources/#vaccine

What some Orthodox hierarchs have failed to consider is the sacerdotal nature of creation. Any—no matter how remote—connection to a sacrifice of human life opens a portal of evil inside the walls of the Church.
https://orthodoxreflections.com/the-gatekeepers-let-in-what-they-are/

When we priests speak out, we get shut down by fellow clergy and our hierarchs (who can suspend us or defrock us at a whim). Our hierarchs who want to speak out are threatened by their superiors and synods. Priests are in danger of losing their parishioners who have fallen for the official narrative. These parishioners feel scandalized when their priest speaks out, and consider him one of the “crazy” conspiracy theorists: The evil one uses this to convince them to leave the parish (and her Sacramental life), and they may take others with them.

https://orthodoxreflections.com/a-greek-priest-on-the-divisiveness-within-orthodoxy-over-covid-vaccines/

In an Era of Apostasy, secular laws and God’s laws have diverged. Christians should not compromise or be silent. We must successfully spread the word of God so that Christian values return to the majority. With God, all things are possible. #onebabyatatime
https://orthodoxreflections.com/mitigating-abortion-in-a-fallen-world-onebabyatatime/

It should be a banner time for science and scientists. All we hear from official sources is praise. “Trust TheScience™!” vies with “Follow TheScience™!” and “Believe TheScience™!” as official slogans for the past two years. The ironic thing about our current situation? Even as we all seem to worshipfully refer to TheScience™, actual science is in graver danger than ever before. And most people haven’t even noticed.

That is only possible because the average person has not a clue what “science” actually is and what conditions are required for “science” to flourish. Science is not an accepted body of knowledge that no one is allowed to challenge on pain of censorship. Science is not simply anything people with credentials and lab coats say it is, even if they have the power to silence their critics. Actual science relies on quantifiable data, not mere opinion. Freedom of thought is essential to science. Science is supposed to be self-correcting through rational debate.

Currently, however, actual science is being suppressed in favor of an officially enforced orthodoxy. https://orthodoxreflections.com/can-we-save-science-from-orthodoxy/

Religious Covidism - the new heresy being propagated by the Greek Archdiocese. No wonder there is a movement among Greeks to declare independence from the Patriarchate in Turkey.
https://orthodoxreflections.com/the-new-heresy/