United Airlines Being Sued Over Christian Persecution.

United Airlines, based in Chicago, Illinois, has been sued by 2,000 employees after the business threatened to fire them for requesting religious exemptions to the COVID vaccine mandate. After applying for a religious or medical exception to the airline’s wide vaccine mandate, the employees were placed on unpaid leave.

According to CBN News, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby proclaimed, “Any pilot, or any employee, who all of a sudden decides, ‘I’m really religious,’ you’re putting your job on the line.” “You had better be careful with that.” (Pause… wow.)

Kirby’s threat sparked a class-action lawsuit filed by more than 2,000 United Airlines employees who formed the Airline Employees for Health Freedom alliance (AE4HF). The workers say that the airline violated its legal rights by firing at least 200 employees and refusing to pay 2,000 others for more than a month.

Sherry Walker, co-founder of AE4HF and a United Airlines captain, stated, “We are standing for our religious freedom and medical autonomy, and we feel we are entitled to the protections under Title VII.” Walker also accused United Airlines of preventing employees from looking for work elsewhere and denying them access to their savings and 401(k) plans.

Meanwhile, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing the AE4HF’s class-action lawsuit. If the workers win on the merits and the judge issues a preliminary injunction, United Airlines will be required to reinstate their employment or provide them with paid leave.

The Senate Oversight Committee was also interested in United Airlines’ response to employees who sought religious exemptions from the COVID immunization. Major airlines, notably United Airlines, have been questioned by lawmakers about how they spent more than $70 million in Cares Act money intended to assist them in recovering from the COVID outbreak.

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge James Ho wrote in an opinion that the district court concluded  “[United Airlines’] mandate…reflects an apathy, if not disdain, for many of its employees’ concerns and a paucity of tolerance for individuals expressing diversity of view,” Judge James Ho said in a ruling for the district court. The airline showed a “calloused approach” and “apparent scorn for” persons of faith, according to the judgement.

According to Breitbart News, Sen. Ted Cruz was outraged by United Airlines’ treatment of religious employees, and he lambasted Kirby for his “very unsettling” handling of unvaccinated personnel. The Republican leader of Texas grilled Kirby on the company’s vaccine obligation during a hearing for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation concerning the airline industry’s governance.

Sen. Cruz pressed Kirby on why, in the face of a pilot shortage, United Airlines opted to put 80 pilots on unpaid leave who had requested religious or medical exemptions. Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, a Republican, addressed Kirby about his “apparently self-created dilemma,” according to the story. The case “Sambrano v. United Airlines” is now pending in the Fifth Circuit of the United States.

You must always remember that you are a child of God in moments like these. You must not allow anything of this world to receive your support while at the same time rob men and women of faith. We don’t run away from confrontation just because we’re terrified of it. Why should we be afraid when we have God on our side? Matthew 10:34 says: “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Furthermore, deciding not to support a company like United Airlines is a question of where your priorities lie as a child of God, and it is something we should pray about and seek God’s advice on. Whether you choose to protest in public or speak out in your own neighborhood, remember that as Christians, we are representing Christ to the world, and what we do and say, as well as how we say it, can affect how others perceive Jesus through us. Stay inquisitive in the word of God, and the world around you. 

As we look back at ancient civilizations or even 50 years ago the technology we currently possess is “godlike” and highly advanced. And the technology we possess today is highly primitive compared to what it may look like 5, 10 or even 50 years from now.

Technology is progressing so fast, but as humans we are hardwired to not really process that exponential change. I think we need to change our mindset however, as the institutions, corporations and governments in the world are starting to break down at this point.

More demand is created for innovation in the technological sector as polarization continues between the competent Americans, and the ones who just take the information thats been spoon fed to them. Now more than ever, there is a demand for alternative platforms for Americans to voice their opinions and cultivate ideas. Much of the coming tech is to be considered the wild west, where people race to purchase virtual real estate, or NFTs for millions of dollars.

With the coming of Zuckerberg’s “Meta”, we can assume a large percentage of society will be participating in the shenanigans laid out by those who specialize in keeping the mind full of dopamine. But we can always trust that the great minds of our nation will step forward and provide a healthier inevitable alternative to the abrasive nature of our current pseudo-metaverse.

According to the World Economic Forum, in 2020 the entire digital universe has reached 44 Zetabytes of Data. For perspective, that is 40 times more bytes than there are stars in the observable universe. And it is just at the beginning.

The Internet of Things (IoT), which can be described as an explosion of mobile devices, smart connected devices from smartphones to smartwatches and autonomous vehicles as well as social networks and digital transformation. It is creating a world in which people can know anything, anywhere, anytime. This on-demand culture is truly mindboggling and unlike anything experienced in human history.

The world is changing so fast that people no longer understand the world we live in anymore and the world we are rapidly entering. Software is not just eating the world, it’s swallowing entire industries whole and creating different industries overnight. Understanding the rapid rate of change itself in digital technologies and the information technology revolution is imperative. Because it has been, is and will continue to be responsible for rapid societal, political and economic change for better or worse.

Today’s millennials and younger generations are used to technology and are digital natives. But even many of them can’t keep up with the rapid innovation. The implications of billions of people having access to the world’s information at their fingertips is incomprehensible. The results are multi-dimensional and our old way of politics, society, and economics stop functioning in the face of this type of exponential change. When things change so fast, so hard, it becomes impossible to figure out the rules and even to agree on how society or business or consumerism or entrepreneurship or regulation should work in the digital age.

What most fail to grasp is that when all of the leading technologies of our civilization are combined, we’ve entered dangerous territory. If you combine advanced robotics, and artificial intelligence alone you’ll have a soulless person. There are kids playing around with AI code in their rooms nightly. This isn’t some far off threat, it’s a golden ticket for the less fortunate who want to make it big. Learning just two programming languages is enough to make six figures if you’ve got an extensive portfolio.

Why are tech companies paying so much for programmers? They’re in a rush to find the pinnacle of efficiency and innovation. But they never ask, what’s on the other side of that door? Once society reaches peak efficiency, Christians will already be subject to persecution. Because why would they bow to Jesus when they’ve got all the tricks up their sleeves? They will be taught to believe that we haven’t looked at life from their point of view. Everyone will paint the Christian man as evil for simply detesting human nature.

The technology comes with a price, if you don’t play by the same rules as the UN, WEF, Lucis Trust, etc. you’re going to be a second class citizen. The elite have cast their shadows on civilization to make their mark during each and every industrial revolution. Today we see Elon Musk trying to influence the crypto market by entertaining careless young traders. While at the same time, trying to make a breakaway civilization to get to mars.

“The Fourth Industrial Revolution, finally, will change not only what we do but also who we are. It will affect our identity and all the issues associated with it: our sense of privacy, our notions of ownership, our consumption patterns, the time we devote to work and leisure, and how we develop our careers, cultivate our skills, meet people, and nurture relationships”

Klaus Schwab

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is reshaping every sphere of human life — from government to commerce; from education to healthcare. It is even impacting human values, opportunities, relationships and identities by modifying virtual as well as physical worlds of human beings. It is in my firm belief that Christians won’t get access to much of the technologies to come. By choice of course, because that is the nature of the puzzle God has laid out for us. We’ve been given free will to live for the world and repent there after. But to be born again, solidifies your role in this world. We’ve identified ourselves based on the values the bible emphasizes, and used them for the foundation of our very identities. To walk away from that is the unthinkable. Stay inquisitive in the word of God, and the world around you.