America’s future as a free society is in serious peril because there are so many authoritarians in positions of power and influence who have contempt for the American people and their values.
“LEAKED: Audio Shows Former NIH Director Trashing Christians at Event Hosted by Christianity Today,” RedState, March 8, 2022:
Dr. Francis Collins, former NIH Director and current “science advisor” to Joe Biden, has long proclaimed himself and Dr. Anthony Fauci as “not political figures.” But newly leaked audio, obtained by The Daily Wire’s Meg Basham, tells a far different story.
The audio was taken on October 26th, 2021 at an event hosted by Christianity Today in conjunction with the Institute of Politics (a leftwing organization founded by David Axelrod). Russell Moore, a favorite among socially left-leaning “evangelicals” like David French and Beth Moore, conducted the interview portion that included Collins.
What followed was the mocking of Christians, the dismissal of individual rights, and false assertions about the legalities involved with vaccine mandates. But rest assured, none of this was political per Collins’ self-description.
“The US government does have the authority to mandate vaccinations if there is an outbreak that is threatening people, because it’s not just about you, it’s about the people you’re going to infect,” Collins claimed, even though science journals were already reporting by that point that vaccinated people were just as likely to spread the then-dominant Delta variant as those who were unvaccinated.
Collins went on to ask rhetorically, “Do [mandates] convince people who otherwise wouldn’t get them?” He answered himself, “Oh yeah, especially if it means losing your job.”
Perhaps Collins should opine less on legal issues because that turned out to be objectively false. As most are aware, the Supreme Court ended up striking down the Biden administration’s federal vaccine mandate. Collins tried to cite Jacobson vs. Massachusetts, a 1905 case that involved state-level mandates, in the interview, again showing his lack of knowledge of the topic. The lack of empathy shown to those losing their jobs over a mandate that was scientifically pointless (everyone spreads COVID) is also striking.
Later, Collins would go on to outright mock Christians who value personal freedom from the government.
Collins said evangelicals, in particular, over-emphasize notions of personal liberty when it comes to mandates, saying they have so “wrapped themselves in the flag and wrapped themselves in this concept of personal freedom, that public health just grates on them.”
“[Evangelicals] have forgotten many times that freedom is not just about rights,” Collins contended. He then employed a mocking caricature of a Southern accent, asking the students, “How many times have you heard, ‘Muh freedom means I got rights’? Well, okay, you also have that other R-word: responsibilities. That’s what freedom is supposed to incorporate.”
I’m not sure what planet this man lives on, but freedom is actually about rights. There can be no freedom without rights, and anything that violates those rights is logically not freedom. The nod to “responsibilities” is a weak, commonly used excuse by government apparatchiks to force their agenda on others. Even tackling Collins’ claim on the merits, what responsibility to others does someone have to get vaccinated if the vaccine does not stop the spread of COVID?…
Arguably the most politically pointed portion of Collins’ remarks came when Moore asked him about the political opinions of his fellow Christians. Collins answered by referencing an Atlantic article by anti-Trump pundit Peter Wehner, another member of his and Moore’s book club, that argued evangelicals have “embraced the worst aspects of our culture and our politics” and that “churches [have] become repositories not of grace but of grievances, places where tribal identities are reinforced, where fears are nurtured, and where aggression and nastiness are sacralized.”…
gravenimage says
Biden’s ‘science advisor’ trashes Christians, dismisses individual rights, says government can force vaccine
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Just appalling stuff.
mea mark says
Dr. Francis Collins is a typical marxist toady spewing typical marxist trash. marxisim, like all forms of socialism, is just feudalism renamed because the deposed Nobel Classes realized that they could not get the people to support : fight for the re-institution of feudal governance.
Being a marxist toady, Collins supports every lawless form of government offices occupying ruler usurping institution of government oppression.
Collins fits perfectly into the Shot Gun Joe Quisling America looting RICO operation. Quisling
Biden’s RICO looting, plundering, and sell out of America and Europe degrades : diminishes America which moves in support of the marxists, like Collins,intention to supplant the American constitution with their [defunct] soviet constitution.
Wellington says
Collins is as objectionable as Fauci. Both are medical monsters and both have no regard for liberty. They’re also pathological liars and massively incompetent.
Because of people like Collins and Fauci (Walensky is another) the American people have concluded something they never did before, i.e., that the medical profession as a whole cannot be trusted. This is a damn shame because there are many competent and decent medical professionals out there (e.g., Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Marc Siegel), tons of them, but nonetheless perceptions have been changed about the medical profession as a whole just as it has changed about higher education in its entirety.
Mendacity, wokeness, overall stupidity and an antipathy for liberty will inevitably result in contempt for those in charge, regardless of the field such people are in charge of. Sadly, this now also applies to medical practice in America. Having been an educator for 29 years at the college level I know first-hand what has happened to college education and it is as inexcusable, though of longer duration, as what has happened to medicine in the past two years. So unnecessary, but then incompetence and an opposition to liberty and truth have always been unnecessary.
Infidel says
I’m betting that both he and Fauci were involved in the decision to set up bio-‘research’ labs in Ukraine. Which are now caught up in the war. While I condemn everything else the Russians are doing, I wouldn’t blame them if they totally blew out those labs. In the meantime, the Freedom Caucus should together start demanding that we shut down any other such labs anywhere else in the world outside the US, and audit what we are doing within the US itself
E T says
Good luck with that, which of the 30 countries will be first – -approximately 330 labs in 30 countries. They have been busy little scientists, working for the greater good of course.
somehistory says
He’s what my father would have called…”Jack….” (apology to any named Jack reading my comment.)
He’s a liar. And it always chaps the hide to hear people from the South mocked in fake accents and word usage. It’s never done *well* because unless one is actually from the South, the word usage and accent are just too difficult to learn and use.
I’ve heard many try. Born in the South and heard many variations of Southern speak…those from GA sound different from SC, and those sound different than people like me…from Florida; and then there is Mississippi, etc.
One who has been born and raised here can tell the differences right away and know the origin.
We don’t say “muh” things like or “I got rights” because we are actually educated; and we don’t go about using the ‘r”; or the “n” word…unless one is Black, who use it regularly.
So, this mocking by the lying fool, just makes him sound that much stupider. Uneducated about the Law, Christ, and the Southern people.
And, they cannot force the ones of us who set out hearts on Jesus and His Father to take the poison jab through threats of job loss. Jesus told us to “Count the cost.” He also said, “You are worth more than many sparrows,” after pointing to the fact that God takes care of the “lilies of the field, the birds of heaven and no sparrow falls to the earth without the Father’s knowledge.”
He said, “Do not be anxious about what you are to eat, what you are to drink., what are you to put on…these are the things the nations are pursuing….but your Father knows you need these things…Seek first the Kingdom and all other things will be added to you.”
So, foolish liar, collins, you need to begin again to learn something useful, because, you are a total failure so far.
Namer says
Collins can just go make unromantic love to himself. He should also have his license to practice medicine revoked. DO NO HARM!!!!!
shoehorn says
If Evanjellyfish aka *socially liberal Christians* wanted to support basic Christian beliefs and values, they would support Trump’s anti-abortion stance. The 45’s greatest legacy may yet be his appointment of similarly minded judges to the SCOTUS should they manage to overturn Roe vs Wade.
https://christianlifedaily.com/christian-nurse-awarded-374000-after-being-forced-to-resign-for-refusing-to-abort-babies/
ET says
Francis Collins should not be allowed to leave the country. Ndaakziiwkaag – – He makes me sick.
Linde Barrera says
To ET-I respect your opinion and your right to free speech. But I think Dr. Francis Collins (and all “Americans” who think like him) should seriously consider moving to Communist China, or Venezuela, or Cuba, or Somalia. Why? Because these countries do not value individual freedoms. And I will help him pack. ??
E T says
Linde, The Great Barrington Declaration sought to end lockdowns, opting for an approach they dubbed “focus protection”, which would aspire to achieve “herd immunity” while protecting the vulnerable.
Outgoing NIH Director Francis Collins lamented he Great Barrington Declaration was “getting a lot of attention, there needs to be a quick and devastating takedown of its premises”, the NIH Director told his colleagues Lawrence Tabak, Cliff Lane, and Anthony Fauci in an email from October, 2020.
He is an evil SOB, keep him close, down the road he should be charged with his part in the grand scheme of how many people died because of their fraud and lies.
Remdesiver shut down people’s liver and kidneys. He / they knew what they were doing.
gravenimage says
E T, I’m not familiar with “ndaakziiwkaag”.
E T says
Ojibwa meaning he makes me sick.
OLD GUY says
Dr. Collins is right, Governments can force Vaccines. Governments can also force labor, reproduction, control of the media, death camps, the list goes on and on in a COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP.
Is he in the WRONG country, sounds more like China, Russia or Iran.
Or is he just another PHD “Piled Higher and Deeper” university idiot who thinks he is smarter than everyone else in America? I think he missed civics and the Constitution of the United States of America, that gives the power to the people not the government.
E T says
He is one of thousands of “Elites”, a follower of Freak Schwab, of the World Economic Forum. We are the ignorant “little” people, too many in numbers, that need to be erased period. I am still waiting for John Galt to arrive on the world stage.
James Lincoln says
I’m not sure who is worse:
Fauci or Collins???