Weaponizing “Good”?

After being referred to a podcast about “Religious Freedom,”¹ I have observed even more frequent use in other Church articles of this phrase: “except when necessary to protect health and safety,”² as in:

[Religious freedom is] the right to “exercise” or live your religion without interference from government or others, except when necessary to protect health and safety.³

SO what are the acceptable restraints, not just to religious freedom, but to all our Constitutionally enumerated rights and freedoms if the test is “when necessary to protect health and safety”? What restraint cannot be judged by control-obsessed Utopians to be necessary for "health and safety" — necessary for our own good or for the good of society or the planet? It shouldn’t be that hard to discern possibilities considering our extended exposure to the “live exercise”⁴ called COVID-19:

• Forced closure of businesses
• Forced masking
• Prohibited public gatherings (including for worship, funerals, weddings, etc.)
• Prohibited singing in public
• Forced experimental vax for employment, school, transplant, travel, gatherings, etc. etc.
• Forced quarantines and / or isolation even within households
• Threatened removal and / or destruction of pets
• Banned outdoor activities even for exercise
• Snitch lines
• Restricted medicines
• Debanking
• Prosecution for lawful protesting
• & on and on.

For those paying attention, the live exercise (escalating control) continues with the mantra "health and safety" taking center stage with a key component being the "health" of the planet. How far have and could other measures of control go for "health and safety"?

• No walking, fishing, picnicking in the woods⁵
• killing of healthy (at risk???) animals⁶
• no eating / consuming of ... (you name it: meat, sugar, candy, certain herbs, certain natural remedies, etc.)
• enforced dieting for unacceptable BMI
• govt. enforced treatment protocols for various diseases
• things one can and cannot watch, read, discuss, write about
• how, where, and how often one can travel
• 15-minute towns and cities
• what and how many animals one can own, even on a farm / ranch
• compelled retrofitting of homes to meet climate standards
• yearly, mandatory home inspections for evolving code compliance
• number of children per family
• & on and on.

Some of these items may seem unimaginable in Western society, but then who could have imagined what was done during COVID-19?

Evil is obsessed with inverting the Good and will co-opt, corrupt, or weaponize every Good that it can as the agenda to totally control or destroy the world goes on with the help of so many.

Let us never forget:

Those who would give up essential Liberty [Freedom], to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty [Freedom] nor Safety.⁷

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1. I first became aware of the “health and safety” wording in limiting freedoms through a friend’s reference to this podcast:
The Uncomfortable Truth About Religious Freedom
(Connor Boyack | August 17, 2025 | Time 48:16 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7slU4-a4-M&t=566s
Subsequently, I found the same working in various other places (See footnote 2; bold emphasis added):
2. • Understanding Religious Freedom:
What do we mean when we talk about religious freedom?
At its most basic, religious freedom means the right to choose, change, declare, and act upon your faith. It includes freedom to worship but is much more than that. It’s the right to “exercise” or live your religion without interference from government or others, except when necessary to protect health and safety.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/religious-freedom/answers-to-common-questions?lang=eng
• “12. Government cannot discriminate against religious believers. All people have a fundamental right to believe, worship, and exercise their religious beliefs as they wish, so long as it doesn’t harm the health and safety of others.”
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/religious-freedom/answers-to-common-questions?lang=eng
• Current Events and Social Discussion 1:
“While religious liberty is our first freedom, we need to focus on creating a space where everyone is free to act upon their core beliefs and values so long as they aren’t harming the health or safety of others.”
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/religious-freedom/answers-to-common-questions?lang=eng
• Understanding My Role:
    5. ...Just as the Savior allowed everyone to make their own choices, we need to seek to understand others’ beliefs and allow them to live as they believe, as long as they don’t harm the health or safety of others.
“Religious freedom is not absolute. Limits on religious activities are appropriate where necessary to protect compelling interests, such as the life, property, health, or safety of others. But such limitations should be truly necessary, rather than an excuse for abridging religious freedom.”
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/religious-freedom/religious-freedom-the-basics?lang=eng
• “Religious freedom is more than just the freedom to believe what you want. It’s also the freedom to talk about and act on your core beliefs without interference from government or others, except when necessary to protect health and safety.” https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/religious-freedom/religious-freedom?lang=eng
3. Full quote: What do we mean when we talk about religious freedom?
At its most basic, religious freedom means the right to choose, change, declare, and act upon your faith. It includes freedom to worship but is much more than that. It’s the right to “exercise” or live your religion without interference from government or others, except when necessary to protect health and safety.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/religious-freedom/answers-to-common-questions?lang=eng
4. live exercise
military practice using real bullets, military exercise which simulates real combat
https://english_contemporary.en-academic.com/110476/live_exercise
- pattern now being used for propaganda, political, social, medical, and other experimentation on humans without their consent or knowledge
5. https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2025/08/get-out-of-woods.html
6. Canada Orders MASS CULL of 400 Ostriches Despite No Infections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2r8VqK9c_c&list=WL&index=2
7. This was first used[1] by Franklin for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its "Reply to the Governor" (11 Nov. 1755)

This quote was used as a motto on the title page of An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania (1759); the book was published by Franklin; its author was Richard Jackson, but Franklin did claim responsibility for some small excerpts that were used in it. In 1775 Franklin again used this phrase in his contribution to Massachusetts Conference (Objections to Barclay’s Draft Articles of February 16.) - "They who can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
An earlier variant by Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanack (1738): "Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power."
Many paraphrased derivatives of this have often become attributed to Franklin:
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.
He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.
People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.
Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.
Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

“Two Baskets of Figs”

1 THE LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, ...
2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
(Jeremiah 24:1-3).¹

If “the line separating good and evil passes ... right through every human heart”² what happens to that line when human hearts formulate states, classes, political parties, nations, churches, NGOs, corporations, etc., etc.? Does the line not externalize through everything generated by humankind? Doesn’t history and scripture make it clear that there is always a compound and that the division is seldom 50/50?³

If we are observant, God’s word is filled with far more lamentation⁴ concerning “Israel” than praise (regardless of whether the chief tribe was Judah or Joseph/Ephraim), so why are we so suckered into silence or unmitigated defense when a basket of figs (again whether of Judah or Ephraim) claims to be good or justified or chosen or favored? What happened to “by their fruits ye shall know them”⁵? What happened to “resist not evil with evil”⁶? What generally happens to good (or even other bad) figs when evil ones have the power?

BUT is a history of victimization (some tragically real and some augmented⁷) sufficient reason to squelch every criticism? How many other tribes or groups have been the victims of genocidal agendas⁸? Does that excuse more atrocities? How specious to label a Semite as anti-semitic if s/he  criticizes a fellow Semite or rejects a militant version of Zionism⁹! How false to weaponize it against every reasoned, legitimate criticism.

Every nation, kindred, tongue, tribe, or people have their two baskets: factions of good; factions of evil. When we refuse to acknowledge the divide — the compound nature¹⁰ — we distort truth and consequence. We open ourselves to a plethora of deception about what and who is real; what and who is false; what is prophesied; what is fulfillment of prophecy.

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1. Old Testament | Jeremiah 24:1-3 (Context)
   1 THE LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
   2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
   3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
2. Full quote: “[T]he line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts.”
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (p. 746). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
3. New Testament | Matthew 7:13-14
   13  Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
   14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
4. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2014/01/gods-lament.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/03/where-are-lamentations.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/03/isaiahs-lamentations.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2016/03/this-vale-of-sorrow.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/deja-vu-dilemma-watchmen.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2018/04/sighing-and-crying.html
Old Testament | Hosea 9:9-10
   9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
   10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
Old Testament | Jeremiah 29:16-17
   16 Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;
   17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
Old Testament | Amos 4:9
   9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
5. New Testament | Matthew 7:15-20
   15 ¶ Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
   16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
   17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
   18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
   19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
   20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
6. New Testament | Romans 12:17 ~ Recompense to no man evil for evil.
New Testament | 1 Thessalonians 5:15 ~ See that none render evil for evil unto any man;
New Testament | 1 Peter 3:9 ~ Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing;
New Testament | Matthew 5:39 ~ But I [Jesus] say unto you, That ye resist not evil [with evil]:
7. Menuhin, Moshe. "Not by Might, Nor by Power": The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism (Forbidden Bookshelf Book 22). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.
Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro: The Empty Wagon: Zionism's Journey from Identity Crisis to Identity Theft
https://www.youtube.com/@RabbiYaakov/videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6PsKFBxY8Y
Meet The ‘Wrong Jew’ The Media Doesn’t Want You To Know Exists (Double Down News | Apr 28, 2024 | Time 4:00 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mEuE-XiHj4
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide
9. See footnote 7
10.. Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 2:11, 15-16
   11 For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, ... righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility. ...
   15 And to bring about his eternal purposes in the end of man, ... it must needs be that there was an opposition; even the forbidden fruit in opposition to the tree of life; the one being sweet and the other bitter.
   16 Wherefore, the Lord God gave unto man that he should act for himself. Wherefore, man could not act for himself save it should be that he was enticed by the one or the other.