Defying Common Sense

LIBERTY UNIVERSITY, in defiance of science, common sense, and decency, is open for business. Classes are being held as usual, not online, but in classrooms, the old fashioned contagious way. Face to face, the students within inches of each other. This, presumably, at God;s discretion, as channeled through Jerry Falwell Jr., who, enviably, seems to have a hot line to the almighty. Either God does not understand microbiology,wants the pandemic to worsen, or is suspending certain inconvenient laws of nature for the greater good of the inculcation of the Christian faith. Presumably, the latter. There are no assurances; we are dealing with a biblical deity who once dismissively exterminated fifty thousand and seventy Philistines in retribution for the god given curiosity of a single individual who curiosity compelled to her to disobey the lord's instruction that nobody should gaze into the ark containing the most important, relevant document on Earth; the covenant of the law. Mass genocidal extermination is beyond neither god's powers nor proclivities. Perhaps he wants the virus to succeed. Also, in Falwell Jr., we are dealing with a minister of the faith who tells us that Donald J. Trump is ordained by God to be president of these United States. Since God's president implores us to get the American economy up and running again by Easter, and since no economy can function properly in the midst of an epidemic, Trump, like Junior, is apparently privy to God's apparent suspension of certain laws of science; namely,, viral contagion. We the people who remain sane must hope that either God's protection from Covid 19 is all American, or that someone can talk some sense into Falwell Jr. and Trump, and, with or without God's help, convince them that this pandemic is quite real, that now is not the time to proceed with business as usual, and that the laws of science and nature apply to everyone at all times.