Letter to the editor: Government shouldn't keep us from church

I am very disappointed in our government for making what I believe are unconstitutional regulations that have prevented Christians from attending services. “The government shall pass no laws infringing on the practice of any religion.”

The regulations imposed on Pennsylvania have prevented members of churches from congregating as a “congregation.” I am more disappointed that Christians have stayed away from the house of God.

Christianity was built on the blood of Jesus on the cross and the blood of the apostles and the holy martyrs. They died for Jesus so we could bow down and worship him today in the church that Jesus started over 2,000 years ago. Have the martyrs for Christ and the sons and daughters of the revolution died in vain?

When will we tell the government that we are not prisoners to be locked up for a crime we have not committed? When are Christians going to go to church on Sunday and demand the doors be unlocked so they can ask God to save us? No one is forced to go to church, but many are forced not to go.

Are we afraid to be “Christians”? I do not know, but the martyrs entered the arena knowing they would be killed because they believed. Will you come to church because you believe?

Jesus started the church, and no governor should keep us from attending it. The Lord’s day is Sunday, and no man can change that. “God, family, country!”

The Rev. Tony Joseph

Johnstown

The writer is pastor of St. Stephen’s Orthodox Church, Latrobe.