THE IRONY, IT BURNS. THE AUTHOR DR. EVERETT PIPER WAS BLOCKED FROM SHARING TO ANY PAGE ON FACEBOOK BUT HIS OWN UNTIL MAY 12 BECAUSE OF THIS ARTICLE HE WROTE, THUS PROVING HIS POINT. Greatest threat America faces during COVID-19 pandemic is loss of liberty

If anything is clear in the history of civilization, as well as that of the church, it is this: When you sacrifice human freedom for the sake of human safety, you almost always diminish the human being. Citizens of the former Soviet Union, for example, may have been “safe,” but this was not the stuff of personal dignity and worth. As the old axiom goes, “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for,” and so it is with human beings. Safety at the expense of freedom always degrades rather than elevates what it means to be made in the image of God. Michael Ramsden (from the Oxford Center for Christian Apologetics) recently argued that the greatest threat to human beings in the 21st century could, in fact, be a misguided concept of human safety.