Waiting For the Lord to Come, and the Virus To Go

EVERYWHERE I GO, I am one of only a few people wearing a face mask. Most of the time, I stay home. Either America doesn't care, or has given up. and the killer virus rampages across the land, killing relentlessly, turning us all into targets of opportunity. On the radio in the middle of the night they smug young girl sports talk show host made it clear that she intends to accept the invitation to the pool party, and that she does not care whether she catches the virus, but doesn't want to give it to anyone. What? There are no sports to talk about these days. Covid 10 insanity, on the air. The crazy ones say that it might be the end of the world, almost as if they hope it is, or don't care. The world will go on, for another four billion years, even if we don't, I want to but do not tell them. Even crazier are the Bible believers, the ones who say that Covid 19 is the fulfillment of biblical prophesy, that these are the final days, as if the scientifically primitive people who wrote the bible had the slightest knowledge of what would happen tomorrow, much less thousands of years in their future. The truly mentally ill are fervently awaiting the return of the Lord, in presumably a flaming chariot wielding a terrible swift sword, their mental illness manifesting itself in their complete disassociation from observable reality. These righteous, self deluded faithful needn't concern themselves with such non problems as climate change, impending environmental destruction, or global pandemics, for they have far greater concerns, the impending arrival of God, which gives them a perfect excuse to care about nothing nor anybody else. Since these disasters are our modern disasters, they must have been predicted by the Bible; how convenient to use twenty twenty hindsight to read into the bible predictions which simply are not there. Our current maladies are so severe that they can be used to justify one's religious beliefs, and the belief that followers of God foretold their future, our present, thousands of years ago, and that this truth is written in a sacred book which the modern faithful can easily hold in one hand, while waving off their responsibility to help us solve our problems with the other hand. Our righteous holders of the truth need fear nothing, nor help anyone, but can afford to sit idly by, and watch the rest of us suffer. according to the Word of God, Jesus told his friends that he would return in their lifetimes; he is long overdo. And if those still awaiting his return wish to spend their time waiting rather than helping and serving society, such is their right, and such is my right to call them mentally ill, and criminally irresponsible.