Repeating the same message projected by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Boris Johnson has tried to persuade members of the public to get their booster shots by telling them that doing so upholds the Christian principle of “loving our neighbour”, further saying that’s what “Jesus told us to do. It’s Christmas, do what he said”. The Prime Minister also showered praise on those who received the vaccine in order to protect others. The Guardian has the story.
Boris Johnson has invoked the teaching of Jesus Christ to urge the public to get a Covid booster jab, in a message issued to mark a Christmas he said would be “significantly better” than last year’s.
In a video statement filmed in front of a Christmas tree in Downing Street, the Prime Minister celebrated members of the public who were “getting jabbed not just for themselves, for ourselves, but for friends and family and everyone we meet”.
“That, after all, is the teaching of Jesus Christ, whose birth is at the heart of this enormous festival – that we should love our neighbours as we love ourselves,” he said.
His words echoed the message from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who said earlier this week: “I would say, go and get boosted, get vaccinated. It’s how we love our neighbour. Loving our neighbour is what Jesus told us to do. It’s Christmas, do what he said.”
The Prime Minister said he could not say the pandemic was over, but pointed out that many people were able to celebrate with more family members this year than last.
“If this year you need a bigger turkey and there are more sprouts to peel and more washing up to do, then that is all to the good, because these rituals matter so deeply. And I hope that people will enjoy this Christmas this year all the more keenly because of what we had to miss last year,” he said.
There had been fears the government might impose limits on socialising over the festive period in a bid to slow the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant, but ministers decided to wait and monitor the data.
In 2020, some parts of the country, including London, the home counties and the east of England, were placed under tier-four restrictions just days before Christmas that meant a “stay at home” order was in place. Elsewhere, up to three households could gather, but only for a single day.
The NHS has accelerated the pace of booster vaccinations significantly since the arrival of Omicron, and in some parts of the country will continue to deliver jabs even on Christmas Day.
Johnson was baptised a Catholic but has rarely discussed his own religion. He married his wife, Carrie, at the Catholic Westminster Cathedral earlier this year. When ITV’s Robert Peston asked if he was a practising Catholic, Johnson replied: “I don’t discuss these deep issues.”
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Pass the sick bucket please.
Johnson is now simply beyond abuse and contempt.
He is now in a class of immoral vileness all of his own!
Invoking “Pity” for his deep sickness will be the next stage of his decent
‘Curse-ed are the Leaks, for they shall escape to inherit the Earth.’
‘Let he who is without sinovac – nay, without any brand – cast the first blow.’
Apparently, a fragment of the Gnostic texts from Nag Hammadi hints that the above rendering is incomplete, and that it likely continues with: ‘… unto those who would stab thee.’
Certainly seems to make more sense.
“And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
(Jesus, in Luke 18:7-8)
I don’t get it.
Don’t these whizzes in conservative central office think to read comments in the MSM, and social media, to judge just how popular Boris is?
Every comments section of every online MSM, and every blog I have read over the last few weeks is literally chock full of condemnation for Boris.
Who needs polling?
I take it back. Judging by the single downvote I got for that comment Boris himself is lurking. 🤣
Abortions, several, personally. As PM, responsible for hundreds of thousands.
Whoring, adultery, abandoned wives and children, much and many.
Lies, too many to bother begin listing.
This is a small part of the CV of the man who presumes to know what Christ would think. I would not want to be in his shoes when God’s judgement comes on him. “…it would be better for them that a millstone be tied round their neck, and they be thrown into the deepest part of the sea….”
I’m sure there was one that went along the lines of (and I may not have it exactly right): ‘It is easier for a camel to sit beside me, if The Eye of The Needle has not passed through thine skin.’ Old Etonians Ch 4, V12, unless I am very much mistaken.
GvdB, the cat and others think that pushing boosters with that useless and outdated gunk in particular is ‘overt medical malpractice’.
And mandating it or them via any coercion or even mandates is akin to ‘state-sponsored suicide’.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/more-evidence-on-omicron-vaccine
“unless the health agencies and drug companies are really too ignorant and incompetent (possible for agencies, implausible for drug companies) to know this, then pushing boosters right now during peak covid would seem to be overt medical malpractice. the last thing you want with disease everywhere is to suppress your immune system.
this is all still mosaic data in the process of assembly, but thus far it seems to point fairly strongly to:
omi is vaccine evading
omi looks enhanced vs those with vaccination, likely due to OAS
boosting during a surge carries immunosuppression risks that are being hidden in order to push policy that looks ill conceived
more and better data will emerge. things may change. but so far, this looks like the odds on hypothesis.”
I’m pretty sure Jesus would be opposed to the entire corrupt system that the world runs on.
First and foremost he’d have a strong word with his representatives on Earth.
…..and He would probably say “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do”.
That’s more than I will ever do.
Give your friends and family a wonderful present, he says – like a blood clot for Christmas?
A booster rocket to heaven via an early and untimely death – what a gift.
Funny how people suddenly began caring about abstract others all of a sudden with the advent of this virus.
My mum almost died a few times from pneumonia caused by the common cold. Many have actually died as a result of catching a cold or the flu. Yes, perhaps in smaller numbers than with this virus, but only by a matter of degree.
Few wore masks and were religious about getting the flu vax and militant about others getting it. But now many bullshit themselves and others about how caring they are.
For those thinking this will all be over soon, we will know soon enough. Either Johnson decides to accept the data showing restrictions are not necessary OR he continues/reimposes restrictions and a new variant ’emerges’ in early Jan to perpetuate the destruction of society.
It is all going to look VERY odd indeed if the 3 devolved nations, which have been very quick out of the blocks after their meeting with Michael Gove, all have the re-imposition of restrictions and England is the only part of the UK without – same as it feels odd that Eng doesn’t have the vaxx pass and the devolved admins do.
Well – as one of the totally a-religious, even I feel insulted at Johnson using Christian doctrine as a propaganda tool. The absurdity is immense.
You closet catholic you.
Straight from the book of St. Pfizer I presume. Johnson himself has said the vaccines don’t stop you catching it or spreading it so to suggest Christ would encourage his followers to take a dangerous medicine on the false premise it protects others is verging on blasphemy. It’s a clever ploy by Johnson and the AOC but it’s phoney and most people know that it’s phoney.
How dare this bare-faced liar speak the Lord’s name in vain. Johnson is despicable.
This smells very much like a deal being made between the government, and the Archbishop’s office. Perhaps churches and cathedrals are going to become the new jabbing venues? Lots of money promised to churches for this? Vx passes required to enter churches? It’s no coincidence that this comes just after Welby’s remarks.
They seem to be calling them Boosters now, as the pharma companies have said since they started dishing them out, that they arent vaccines and do not give immunity and using religion to deliver your message seems opportunist when they wanted the churches shut
Maybe mentioning Christ signals the next phase of tyranny: normalising jabbism with cultural and philosophical backing from ‘God’.
If you want jabs in your nativity play, you have to explain how it all makes sense ‘according to the ancient beliefs of this land’.
Hey presto: Populism wrapped in traditionalism.
Only, the people ain’t buying this fraud.
It gets more “handmaid’s tale” with every passing day.
Said before and I will say it again – did Margaret Attwood borrow their playbook when she wrote the novel or are they doing a real time adaptation of it?
Goodness, how infantile he assumes the people to be. Hilarious!
Most of them are infantile……..
After how he treated his wife and kids he has the nerve to invoke the words of Jesus Christ!!! And that’s ignoring his decades long history of lies and deceit. The man has no shame.
I take my hat off to Johnson and The Anti-Christ of Canterbury. No, I really do. That they can say this sort of thing and remain utterly deadpan is genuinely impressive.
I used to think Monty-Python were good, but they are nothing next to these guys.
Spectacular! Encore, encore!
Yes, but it’s no dry humour, but moral subversion and ‘playing God’. They just seem like ghouls to me.
Jesus would not have told us to vax up. He would have gone into big pharma and turned over the tables of the money changers
We wish.
Where the hell is he today?
Suppose we can replace the feeding of the 5000 with 5 loaves and 2 fish, with immune compromising the millions with one jab – an arguably bigger miracle?
The latter certainly seemed more incredible, until recently. And all that without faith!
I’m both double jabbed and an academic theologian. Boris, a man who has only a passing affiliation with truth would be wise to not poise as a Christian prophet or theologian. Then again, same might be said of the Archbishop.
‘Love thy neighbour as thyself’ said Jesus.
I love myself enough to not force my neighbour to take a vaccine against their will, nor to coerce them until they do by calling down divine judgement upon them.
Where’s THEIR love, really?
Isn’t it just cowardice and conformity to powers and authorities they neither understand nor wish to?
If you love other people, you wont ask them to do something that may harm them, just to make you feel better.
Jesus never asked for that.
In Christ there is no Jew nor Greek, slave nor free man, vaxxed nor unvaxxed.
Merry Xmas folks. 2 years of proud resistance.
Cheers!
In the critical community, many are laughing at what they see as the enemy’s desperation, while others are getting ever more triggerable into fury.
Personally, listening to BBC Radio 4 this morning, Christmas Eve, I found myself in the second group. The segment was about how quite a large number of people have done volunteering work since last March. They played a tape of one woman who said her voluntary work had included “giving information to the unvaccinated”, as if we were morons in need of nice people to help us see the light. I found myself shouting at the radio at the top of my voice. This isn’t funny. It’s babyburning insanity.
Probably an old biddy who could not wipe herself without getting you-know-what all over the bathroom. It’s this kind that is usually the most bossiest, the most know-it-all.
“information” = propaganda…