Thoughts In The Time of Plague

I believe in God and consider myself a Christian.


(I hope God considers me a Christian, too.)


Perhaps I listened to too many good Presbyterian sermons growing up in my small West Virginia town, but I do believe, with them, that the "church" is not the brick and stained-glass building we worshiped in, but the people of the congregation, the members of the faith instead; maybe that's why I have not been much of a churchgoer over the years, but I believe, whether in a building or not.


If you truly "love thy neighbor" why would you put them at risk by insisting on a crowded meeting Easter Sunday, or any other? To insist on such here in Kentucky after we have had several examples of the virus traced to church meetings--including some deaths--hardly seems "Christian." And with broadcast services and  drive in services even less so. I can "render unto God" without getting ill or putting others at risk even if I do skip the most sacred of all Christian services of the year, a genuine pity but a necessity in the time of contagion. 




Far more that we spend time trying to learn the lessons of WHY this old testament pestilence has been visited upon us. Why we still have  traditional areas of mass poverty where disease flourishes--after years of warnings---"wet"markets where this virus supposedly originated---after years of warnings---of failures to vaccinate properly which has allowed once eliminated scourges to reappear---after years of warnings.
And we can think and think and think why a "loving God" would allow this to happen to innocent people worldwide?


I don't know that answer, and I don't know anyone who does.


God knows.


I'm just sayin'...