In a Christmas video, while urging the public to get their booster jab, Boris Johnson recruited Jesus Christ to the cause. Boris celebrated those 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”.
Two thousand years ago most diseases were assumed to be punishments imposed by an angry God on sinful humans (with mental ill-health assumed to be demonic possession). I’m not too sure how the ministry of Jesus relates to the Covid vaccination programme. I’m just happy to acknowledge the ‘true meaning’ of Christmas: the birth of Santa Claus.
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