By Metropolitan Nektarios of Kerkyra
We are not entitled to take responsibility for what does not belong to us. It is inconceivable to read how there are spiritual fathers who threaten with a penance to abstain from Holy Communion those who are vaccinated! Our spiritual authority is to "bind and loose" sins and not to deal with medical issues and to make our personal positions and views positions and views of God and the Church.
It is a delusion to shift the events of the times to an eschatological level and take risks by scaring people that the end of the world is near.
It is a delusion to think that those who have been vaccinated have become followers of the Antichrist.
It is a delusion to believe that the freedom of our will is abolished with the vaccine. This freedom is an element of the image of God given to us by the Holy Spirit.
It is a delusion to shift the events of the times to an eschatological level and take risks by scaring people that the end of the world is near.
It is a delusion to think that those who have been vaccinated have become followers of the Antichrist.
It is a delusion to believe that the freedom of our will is abolished with the vaccine. This freedom is an element of the image of God given to us by the Holy Spirit.
