Truckers Convoy and Catholic Moral Obligation

Have you see footage of the Canadian Truckers Convoy? It's a spectacular site of thousands of truckers rolling down the highways from Vancouver for Ottawa to protest the federal government’s jab mandates for cross-border truckers. This is making a statement!

This huge gesture of resistance demonstrates the true power of the people. Peaceful demonstrations are sure to bring positive results. Notice how unlike the Marxist Communist movements of the summer of 2020, this massive protest does not threaten human life and property.

Although most of the truckers in Canada did get jabbed, they are in solidarity with those who choose not to. These truckers understand the value of free choice. The narrative here in America is that if you get the jab, you can't be for free choice, and you must condemn those who do not get jabbed. This brings up the point of free will.

Free will is a basic human quality. But because of our fallen nature fear overrides our desire for freedom. People in power who want more power over you know this weakness and take advantage of it. Thus the mask and jab hysteria.

But as the Congregation on the Doctrine of Faith clearly states, “Practical reason makes evident that vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be voluntary.” Of course, practical reason seems to have gone out the window, letting hysteria control our brains.

Eric Sammons further develops the point of free will as it pertains to mandates. "Modern people tend to believe that if something is good, then it’s also good to mandate it. That attitude, however, is contrary to Catholic moral teaching, which is solidly founded upon the acceptance of human free will. Freedom is a fundamental moral principle. If someone does something that is an objectively wrong act, but is forced to do it, that mitigates and possibly even removes the sinfulness of the action. Likewise, if someone is forced to do something good, that also mitigates its moral goodness. Without freedom, there is no morality." Mic drop.