Truth or (Suffer the) Consequences!

Do you influence others regarding serious decisions that they have to make? If so, you have a responsibility to provide accurate information to those whom you influence. When the issue is grave, your responsibility is also very serious.  

 One such important issue that can have significant consequences is the question of whether or not to receive the COVID-19 vaccination. Recently, in The Catholic Commentator there have been several articles or letters to the editor promoting the vaccination. There has also been at least one letter from a medical doctor indicating reasons for not being inoculated. 

Outside of The Commentator, there are many other voices that we can classify as either in favor or not in favor of the vaccine.   

The relevant question, the question that must be answered in order to make a good decision and therefore to have the best chance of a good outcome is: What and who should I believe? Since most of us will not do our own scientific research regarding this matter, we will, of necessity, rely on information provided by someone else. How do we know who to trust?   

Here are criteria you and I can use to determine who we should listen to:  

Do they truly have the common good in mind? Do they treat people as children of God?  

What is the fruit of their lives?  

Do they have the education, training and experience in the issues in which they are providing information?  

Have they been known to lie or to be vague and round-about in their explanations?    

Our responsibilities require us to do this analysis.   

 Personally, when I applied this type of analysis to the question of the COVID-19, I had to analyze two different groups. One group was composed of Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden, most of the mainstream media and others. Because this group was so homogeneous, I could think of them all as if they were one.   

Likewise, I treated a second homogeneous group as one. They were the front line doctors, Dr. Mercola, Peter McCullough and many other doctors (MD’s) and PhD’s, etc., who were doing hands-on treatment of COVID-19  patients and doing studies and research regarding these issues of concern.  

 Looking at this second group, I observed that they were truly taking care of God’s children, truly looking out for the common good. These doctors bore good fruit. They used all of their education, training, experience and creative abilities to develop new and better treatment protocols for their patients, losing almost none. They wrote papers and gave presentations and they provided citations for all of their research work and findings. They spoke clearly and what they said could easily be verified.  

As for the first group, they did not meet the criteria listed above so as to be trusted. They do not show a concern for human life (rather they promote the killing of unborn babies) nor do they demonstrate a love of the truth. The fruit of their lives is most certainly rotten.  

 You must now decide for yourselves who you are to trust; from whom will you get the truth, so that your decisions will bear good fruit.