Reason is not the enemy of faith

Why? Essentially because reason comes from God.

Reason - rationality - is God-given. And He gave it to us for a reason: to bloody well use it.

The inability to use your reason because you are a broken individualist does not mean you have faith.

Viewing the pandemic through a political lens is a failure, and it leads to blind notions about what "peak" and "flattening the curve" mean, like these were magical green lights to go ahead and "open" things back up. People seem to be quite stupid. These are only means of controlling the rate of infection. If a second or third wave hits, it can be very much back to square one.

When the pandemic first broke out and crisis measures were just starting, a friend of mine said, "I think this will all blow over in a couple weeks."

And I was like, "Yep, you're in denial."

That's pretty much been my response to every conspiricist/fideist long-winded culture-war hazmat-brain condom cult pronouncement about everything from punishment/chastisement to hoax to lab conspiracy etc.

My response is, "Yep, you're in denial."

I'm not one to make predictions, but perhaps come August, or some time thereabout, we will be faced with two options:

1. Continued quarantine/isolation/business closure with the protection of jubilee/debt cancellation across the board and UBI

or

2. Social Darwinism (aka passive genocide).

The Christian Fundamentalists/Conspiricists/Fideists have planted themselves fully in Option 2.

Oh, by the way, anyone who says the Church has closed, or that the State has imposed these sanctions on the Church, is a damn liar.

Many, if not most, churches remain open for private prayer (with x marks the spot on pews for distancing) and confession is available by appointment, and in some cases outside parking lot where the priest is ten feet behind glass panel and disinfectant with paper towels is there for the penitent to wipe down after he or she is done and all out of ear shot, and all the online stuff as well.

And for every doom-and-gloom story about some Orwellian drone in the air and broad brush scenes of sheeple in lockdown of the State, there are 500 stories about heroism, ordinary kindness, openness, discovery, charity, faith, and all the rest.

Actually the ratio is probably more like 1000 light to 1 gloom. But for the conspiricist fundamentalists these sorts of stories are decidedly inconvenient to their doom-and-gloom narratives. And besides, they just spin the stories of light into that of the worldly humanist sheeple living under the illusion of the spirit of anti-christ.

They have their own firing pistol, their own firing time, and their own end-win.

The ordinary person looks at the facts and is like, "2 plus 2 equals 4, thus I need to do this and that in order to prevent such and such."

And the conspiricist is all like, "NOOO, WE'RE IN AN ORWELLIAN LOCKDOWN STATE AND IF YOU HAVE FAITH ENOUGH THEN 2 PLUS 2 EQUALS FIVE!!!!!"

LOL