COVID-19L: The Crown of Death

A powerful and timely warning, not that the World will heed it. Stay in a State of Grace, Dear Readers!

From the Boston Catholic Journal

By Geoffrey K. Mondello

An Impolite Reminder

Who gave much thought to it before the Corona Virus — COVID-19 — made the inevitable a distinct possibility? Suddenly we are confronting the possibility of widespread death — even Democrats who have made widespread death through abortion, infanticide, “a woman’s right” to murder her own children, assisted-suicide, and euthanasia, an integral part of their Democratic platform … to make everyone’s life better, you understand ... except those they acrimoniously legislate to kill.

But this looming death —  COVID-19 — even for Democrat ideologues is far more terrible than selectively killing off babies — even those who survive abortion and are butchered alive: it fetches off whom it pleases: Democrat as well as Republican, Liberal as well as Conservative. I mean, who wants indiscriminate death? 

According to Democratic demagogues, death must be either chosen or legislated and eventually become the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. But it must NOT be indiscriminate! It must be — to use the now tiresome phrase that applies to anything — “weaponized” against non-liberals, non-Democrats, and everyone else who is not in lock-step with them.

COVID-19? A political device that, in agreement with General Secretary Xi Jinping of China is the fault of President Trump and Conservative Americans who have not been correctly “re-educated” at American universities and colleges — and who maliciously believe the “propaganda” that Chairman Jinping himself, and his CCP, are largely and inexcusably at fault. Yes, there really are people — many of them — mostly Democrats, together with Anarchists and Nihilists — who hold that ideology is dearer than life itself.

Until it comes to them, or waits at their doorstep. They fear dying, even while they mercilessly inflict death on the innocent. They fear death even more than they fear not toeing the Party line.

“And all this —  COVID-19, death, sickness, and all the attending inconveniences — are mysteriously because of President Trump and unenlightened social and political conservatives” who are so backward, so ill-informed, that they actually believe in absolute values like life, traditional families, religion and the like. And, oh yes, ,… they are all carrying guns under their jackets and skirts and are secretly white-supremacists ... even if they are black.

Let’s cut to the chase: you are going to die. Sometime. And with absolute certainty. Democrats may sooner or later legislate your death for some capricious reason that sounds “cool” to them, or you may die by COVID-19, a heart attack, stroke, or “other” serious but non-infectious illness or disease, or even old age (until Democrats eventually find this unsuitable).

Allow me to insult you further (as well you deserve) —

It is time to trample upon your factitious, fragile, democratic, and genderless sensitivities ... to invade your “Safe Spaces”. It will give me great pleasure and I will indulge myself. 

Allow me to put this appalling state of affairs into perspective: although Holy Mother Church has not declared it so —  especially under the extremely sensitive, earthy, idolatrous, profane, and feckless papacy of Francis —  the entire matter appears rather clear to me: it is at least plausible —  it would certainly be “just”—  and therefore extremely likely, that this 21st century plague is entirely and existentially commensurable with this generation’s utter repudiation of God, reason, morality, and decency. To repudiate God is to repudiate all three.

Look around: the murder of children in (and now outside of) their own mother’s wombs, the lusting of men for boys and other men, of women for women; the pretension of choice-of-gender or no gender despite all biologically discernible physical appurtenances, and those notwithstanding, “gender-reassignment”-through-surgery, God banished from schools and public places as an impediment to the corrupt desires of men and women, licentiousness, pornography, materialism, even nominally Catholic institutions of higher-learning removing crucifixes and identifiably Catholic statuary in obeisance to a “progressive”, liberal, and militantly secular culture; the defiance of every form of authority (outside the Democratic Party)  —  utter “freedom-from” and absolute “freedom-to”. America has become liberal Amerika, and the jack-boot is on any throat of dissent or defiance.

In a word, we more than deserve this pestilence. To advert to a colloquial term presently unacceptable in polite ecclesiastical discourse, it is very likely a chastisement from God. How ... appropriate that Godless China was the flail.

To return to the matter at hand:

You are going to die! 100% Guaranteed!

And Who decides — unless you take your own life — is not you! Nor when you die.

You do not believe in God so why fear? There is no Hell for you or anyone else! It is the extinction of consciousness, or self-awareness — and so there is no “you” to be bothered by whatever transpires after you buy the farm. How quickly, at the hour of your death, will all the illusions you cherish about the continuation of your petty self in some insane form of “energy” or whatever you conceive to be the boat that you will float on forever — how quickly your irresponsible fantasies abandon you when you realize that there is a Judge after all and that there are consequences to the way in which you have squandered your life. Deep down inside you knew it — but hedged your bets on having the best of BOTH worlds.

You won’t.

COVID-19 is a “wake up call” to your delirium (opiated or otherwise) that life will go on forever — for you!

It is equally a call to what appears dreadfully present: the time to repent (remember that word so long-disdained?) and to believe what God Himself has revealed to you through His Only-Begotten Son Jesus Christ. There ARE things that you MUST do! And there are things that you MUST NEVER do!

And there is One in Whom you MUST believe. However “superior” you conceitedly believe your “intellect” to be, there are greater things than the self — particularly YOURSELF!

The First and foremost is God. But it should be of deeply personal interest to you that there are OTHER things as well … like Heaven, and … yes … Hell. And both are forever.

Whether or not you die today or next month is of little consequence. What is paradoxically vital is that you recognize it. You ARE going to die.

Repent and be converted. “Now is the acceptable time.” (2 Cor. 6.2)

“How quaint!”, you smugly say.

I do not agree.

You have everything to gain — and much suffering — even eternal suffering — to lose.

You did not make the world and had no say in it.  This applies equally to what lies beyond it. 

Geoffrey K. Mondello
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
March 12, 2020