Devout

Greetings good citizen, the Christian sabbath is here and many of you are shunning the guiding force of your life out of fear for your own well-being. We'd like to think the plagues of centuries past have taught us the folly of gathering to worship when religion teaches that your conversations with the Almighty are both personal and private.

Naturally, when the church WAS USED to propagandize the public, attendance was mandatory. Even the slavers appreciated the power of blind fear. While there is much rich turf here to explore, especially along the lines of 'what have you done for me lately' in the politically red south, it is on the front page of today's NY Times that we encounter a positively reckless headline that 'implies' that the death rate of the Coronavirus is 50% [the headline teases further by telling how two young healthcare workers were infected and only one of them survived, wtf?

Let's not discount the 'better than you' aspects of 'devotion'. The churches are NOT Empty this Sunday Morning and the poor minister/priest/rabbi/Imam will still have to endure close contact with people he would rather not get closer to than his pulpit/alter. Depending on denomination these Holy men and women will err to caution regarding the portions of the service where communion is practiced.

Some of the devout arrived early at church this morning to demonstrate their 'faith' was stronger than their fear, even in light of headlines implying a 50% mortality rate. This isn't about 'self-preservation', it's about defending a belief system that teaches hatred and superiority.

Difficult to call which is more 'reckless', the headlines or the headstrong who don't have enough going on upstairs to even wear hats.

Blind faith can be more dangerous than a loaded gun, which we shall witness as the virus makes its rounds.

The 'recklessness' of abandoning the teaching of how the political process works to the nation's/planet's youth has come home to roost. Instead of being an avenue of debate, the media has reduced politics to Team Sports where the emphasis is more on winners and losers rather than the critical element of 'compromise' the process is intended to foster.

If you aren't part of the solution then you are part of the problem.

You can't teach stupid anything because they already know so the situation becomes one of 'what do we 'do' about stupid?'

Short answer, stupid refuses to compromise and in doing so has revoked their membership in civil society.

If you can't bring yourself to cooperate then you don't belong here. Making 'your team' number one loses sight of the larger picture. [None of this is about YOU!]

My way or the highway is never the answer but if you believe [let's leave thinking out of this] YOU deserve special consideration because that's what you want [it will make you 'happy'...for a moment or two] then you are invited to find happiness in a place where your pursuit of it will not harm others.

That is what the H.A.E. is all about.

If only we could get people behind a prohibition against exploiting one another rather than our inclination to devote heart and soul to an imaginary superbeing, the world may stand a chance of surviving its 'human infestation'.

Funny how the term 'plague' is 'relative' too, eh?

First post using Grammarly and I'm quite pleased, hopefully, YOU will find them more 'readable!'

Until next time Head,

Gegner