I don’t know where to turn. I’m going to lose my job in 10 days. My wife blames me and has turned on me. Everyone I know has gotten the Vax and is eager to throw those who haven’t under the bus (they’re not even approved here in Canada). I’m on the verge of losing everything. This truly is a nightmare.
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Spend the next 10 days finding a nurse who will squirt the vax down the sink and give you a saline injection.
Ask other nurses. They will lead you to the right one.
If you have to lie in order to do something, is that thing really worth doing?
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Exodus 20:16 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/exo.20.16.KJV
It seems more like the 'principle of double effect' in moral theology.
If a woman was in a car accident, e.g., and got an emergency operation to say, repair her aorta to save her life - while that also risked the life of her not-yet-viable unborn child?
If she lost the child, the emergency decision to operate would not be considered a decision 'causing an abortion' morally, because the loss of the child was not the intention. It was a totally unwanted consequence or 'double-effect' of it.
Or similarly, if you were hiding people from the Nazis or communists? And the secret police came door to door, asking if anyone knew where they were - and you said, 'No'? Or a terrorist asked a group of hostages, to say if anyone in the room was American?
Morally (vs. circumstantially/technically), denying it would not have the quality of being a lie - because your primary spiritual will/intent was not to bear false witness, but to save a life. The spirit of the Law.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark+7%3A5-15&version=NIV
The world can't cause you to sin, nor can circumstances. Your only trespass would be how you reacted to the world.
In those examples, is the person attempting to save lives in any way at fault for the circumstances leading to the child being lost or a lie being told in their efforts to save lives? No. Therefore, they have not defiled themselves and have done what is right.
There’s some sort of precedence for lying to be a spy in the Bible, can’t find it now. I’ll try to find the context