Mark Armstrong: "Everything We Value in This Human Life is About to be Lost"

Mark Armstrong continues posting his bizarre weekly updates in which he goes on political rants and writes as though he is quite angry instead of managing the Armstrongite splinter group he inherited from his father, namely the Intercontinental Church of God. 

This time, on his November 20, 2020 update, he complains that the media's warnings about the new third spike of infections of the coronavirus are starting to sound boring to him.

If there's one thing everybody knows it is that, “The numbers don't lie!” Nearly every news station is carrying numbers on screen throughout the day and night. Every radio news-break warns that we're drowning in the virus. They've doubled down on every superlative in the English language, and it's beginning to get a little repetitious.

Over a quarter of a million Americans have died from this terrible disease. The rate of deaths per day in the US is in the thousands. Hospitals are running out of space for patients. And meanwhile Armstrong minimizes the ongoing crisis by insisting that most deaths were caused by other underlying conditions and not the coronavirus itself.

Not only that, the numbers coming out of the CDC show that only a fraction of the deaths constantly reported on the news are exclusively attributed to the virus. But if some want to take the network reporters' word for it, they're welcome to do that.

He then spends the rest of the update complaining about the media making everyone scared and trying to somehow censor him. He never uses the word after this.

(While in this train of thought Armstrong implies that he might not be able to post these strange, bitter and angry tirades as much as does now. Such a statement appears to be an attempt to gain sympathy from his lay member followers.)

It's a little astonishing that Americans who love freedom would be prepared to relinquish it at the drop of a hat over the word of those who've made a career of lying to us. When you consider the fact that so many have died fighting for the rare blessings of freedom, the respect and debt we owe to those who came before, it becomes a little emotional. 

You can look forward to these updates being dialed back somewhat. Our beliefs and doctrines certainly don't hinge on my attitude, which has admittedly become somewhat jaundiced. But it does get a little tiresome, having a lot of tripe jammed down the throats of us all. We seem to be well down the road from a situation where the “truth has fallen in the streets.” None plead for justice, surely not from any mainstream networks or social media titans. When you look at the priorities of those promoting fear, it feels a lot like they intend to rule over what we can and can't know, and what we will or won't do.

He makes the hysterical and nonsensical claim that "everything we value in this human life is about to be lost." Words like this are to incite fear of the world outside his organization and loyalty from his followers towards him. Staying with Mark Armstrong's organization is presented as an act of defiance against bad people.

Having said that, we all want the best for those we love and it surely looks as if everything we value in this human life is about to be lost. 

To his shame Armstrong presents emergency measures designed to save lives and ease the burden facing hospital staff as somehow leading to the mark of the beast. This is shameful demagoguery that puts his followers at greater risk of getting the dreadful disease.

Shutdowns and masks won't be the end of the demands made upon the American people. They're just warming us up. Will we also curl up in the fetal position when they roll out demands that we all receive a Mark that violates our free will, not to mention God's Laws? No doubt it will be promoted as the only assurance of everyone's health and safety.

Please take the coronavirus seriously. Shutdowns and masks help slow the spread of the coronavirus. Shutdowns reduce social interaction which makes it harder for the virus spread. Facemasks makes it harder for the wearer to pass on any disease he or she may happen to have. Including the coronavirus.

Observe shutdown regulations. Minimize social contact, especially indoors. Wear your face mask. Wash your hands. Listen to your doctor. Listen to science. Of course discouraging social interaction is painful but that is how one fights a pandemic. It appears there will vaccines eventually but it will take months before the general public get it. Until then we must be careful not to catch or spread the coronavirus.