The Reckoning?

 

God gave Noah the rainbow sign ...

It seems unambiguous to me that what is going on in the US currently is a struggle of good and evil. With evil seemingly triumphant. Yes, the Democrats and the contemporary left are simply morally depraved. Their postmodern essence is the denial of the possibility of either good or evil; and a denial that there is such a thing as truth or reality. For them, it is only “the narrative.” And the only response to crime is to blame the police. Their spirit is the spirit of destruction.

This tips into an inexorable and accelerating downward spiral, and we are witnessing it. Things are falling apart in civil society now at breakneck speed: the censorship, the denial of free speech, the endemic racism, the open hatred of “whites” or “cisgender males,” the devolution into tribalism, the open corruption, the Hunter Bidens and the Jeffrey Epsteins and nobody seeming to care; the random destruction in the streets of the largest cities, and nobody seeming to care. Actual calls now for dissidents to be arrested—Republicans, anyone who worked for Trump. Against, of course, the relentless but unmentionable backdrop of unrestricted abortion, with the current governor of Virginia, or Whoopi Goldberg on TV, going so far as to openly endorse post-birth infanticide.

Joe Biden? A testament to the truth of Hannah Arendt’s phrase, “the banality of evil.” 

Already little is left of American democracy. If you do not have free speech or a free press, and you cannot trust your elections, democracy is not the correct term.

COVID-19 is of course a separate matter, an Act of God. But COVID-19 might be a judgement from God. Not just on the US; I do not imagine China will come out of this better than the USA. I read the waters are symbolically rising again behind the Three Gorges Dam.

Everywhere the cities are burning. What will be left?

Today, a friend taught me a Jewish tradition: you go to the Book of Psalms, and meditate daily on the Psalm one number beyond your current age. This is the psalm that best advises you for the year. Supposedly this is personal; but my psalm sounds as though it might apply for all of us:

Let God arise!

Let his enemies be scattered!

Let them who hate him also flee before him.

As smoke is driven away,

so drive them away.

As wax melts before the fire,

so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

 … A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows,

is God in his holy habitation.

God sets the lonely in families.

He brings out the prisoners with singing,

but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

… God is to us a God of deliverance.

To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

But God will strike through the head of his enemies,

the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

The Lord said, “I will bring you again from Bashan,

I will bring you again from the depths of the sea,

that you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood,

that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”

 

Forgive me for pointing out that this is one more example of how the Bible is not OK with "I'm OK, You're OK" morality.