Church leaders are calling on governments to 'repent' for Covid ‘totalitarianism’. I won’t be joining them

Prompted by what signatories consider "an emergent totalitarianism of the State over…the Church”, a new statement is urging governments to "repent" lest they "become liable to God’s wrath”. The Frankfurt Statement, which references the Covid pandemic and has been signed by hundreds of church leaders, suggests mass media and governments have been guilty of "fear-mongering, propagandizing, and indoctrination”. But Jared Stacy, who is writing a PhD on evangelicalism and political conspiracy theories says the statement consists of “panic-driven theology”