Clearly just forcibly shutting down recalcitrant Churches is not a good solution for the government. Now, of course, the government doesn’t have to. The banks can shut the Churches down instead. Your Church opposes same-sex marriage, sexually mutilating children, has hymns that are “antisemitic”, or has the word “Russian” in its name? No bank account for your Church.

No problem, you say? You can just donate cash? Sorry, welcome to the digital dollar. There is no cash. By the way, as an affiliate of a known radical, subversive, hate group – let’s just cut off your bank account as well. Just how do you keep a parish open, or a family from starving, with absolutely no access to any way to pay for anything?

The government does not even have to ask for everything all at once. After all, Satan normally works incrementally. Today you have to accept non-discrimination against LGBTQ+ persons in hiring for Church support positions (admin, daycare, teachers, professors, etc). That’s okay, right? The Church should be fair, right? You can easily talk yourself into that. Next week, you have to stop preaching against same-sex behavior. No sweat, lots of other topics to cover! Next month, you change a few hymns that are not “inclusive” enough. The month after, you have to ordain women. At some point you find yourself so far gone that there is no coming back. https://orthodoxreflections.com/central-bank-digital-currency-is-the-end-of-freedom/