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Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng
- Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has defended his controversial sentence about Covid-19 vaccines being “from the devil.”
- Mogoeng said that if any vaccine is made to promote a “satanic agenda,” God must destroy it.
- He said that it was his constitutional right to express his religious beliefs and that others had the right to disagree with him.
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has defended his controversial prayer that any Covid-19 vaccine that is “from the devil” be destroyed.
“I block any vaccine that is not yours,” he said Thursday during a closing prayer.
He said:
If there is any vaccine that is from the devil, intended to infuse triple six into people’s lives, intended to corrupt their DNA, any vaccine, Lord Almighty God, that is destroyed by fire, in the name of Jesus.
Mogoeng spoke during a thanksgiving ceremony at Tembisa Hospital, which was also televised by SABC.
On Friday, Mogoeng was holding a press conference to unpack the 2019/20 Judiciary Annual Report, but instead received questions about his views on vaccines and the consequences of social media after his prayer.
An irate Mogoeng said he was not following the trends on Twitter.
“Honestly, I pay very little attention to the media. I don’t know if people honestly misunderstood what I said, or if they deliberately misinterpreted what I said.”
‘God must destroy him’
“I said, if there is any vaccine manufactured to promote a satanic agenda, of the mark of the beast, 666, or if there is any vaccine manufactured for the purpose of corrupting people’s DNA, that vaccine must be burned. God must intervene and destroy it! “Mogoeng said.
“If people are supporting a satanic agenda, they must tell us why. If they want us to have the 666 mark, they must tell us why.”
Mogoeng said he acknowledges that “not all vaccines advance on that agenda.”
Furthermore, he described himself as an independent thinker who did not need affirmation and had the right to express himself freely.
He said:
Prayer is controversial in South Africa. I’m not going to beg for permission to pray, ever. It is my constitutional right; I am a Christian and I will not be a hypocrite.
Mogoeng said there is no reason why his legal responsibilities should be separated from his religious beliefs.
As for the vaccine, Mogoeng said he was not “stating as fact” that a “666 vaccine” exists.
“But if there is [such a] vaccine, I don’t want it. This is the end of time according to us Christians. If there is a 666 vaccine, I want God to destroy it. “
He added that if there was any “clean” vaccine, “they must produce it quickly because people need it.”
South Africans are not idiots
Mogoeng said South Africans “were not idiots” and that they would not accept anything he says just because it is in the public domain.
He said:
My prayer was intended to touch all well-meaning Christians to pray to God and say, if there is any vaccine that will negatively affect people’s lives, that vaccine must never see the light of day. So people should pray against it.
Mogoeng said that people were smart enough to separate fact from fiction and did not need to accept everything he said.
“I am not a scientist, I am a prayer warrior.”
Legal complaint against Mogoeng
The human rights organization # Africa4Palestine criticized Mogoeng’s comments, saying he intended to file a complaint with the Judicial Services Commission (JSC).
“We believe that the latest comments from the Chief Justice undermine medical science and South Africa’s position on vaccine distribution,” the organization said in a statement on Friday.
The organization said:
By naming certain vaccines as ‘666’ or ‘devil’s vaccines’, [Mogoeng] you are undermining not only medical science, but also contradicting our government’s position on vaccines.
“We are confident that such outlandish fanatical speech and denial of medical science during a pandemic is a violation of the JSC Code of Conduct, which explicitly urges judges to refrain from such controversies.
“While we recognize the previous judgments of Judge Mogoeng and the important role he has played in our judiciary, we are of the firm opinion that his position calls on him to uphold international law, respect medical science, and not interfere in national relations and South Africa’s international standards as well as health policies “.
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