Just read an inspiring article on the Guardian website, for which people who went through intensive care with Covid were reunited with those who nursed them back to health. Very moving, though one quote, from a 60-year-old Salvation Army minister, left me feeling rather queasy. “From day one there were hundreds, if not thousands, of people praying for me. And I believe to this day that those prayers were answered”.
Sentiments of this kind have a superficial appeal - a good news story to counteract so many Covid-related tragedies - but only until we give them a moment's thought. The faultlines in such faith-based certainties soon become apparent. God, the minister is suggesting, could have saved everybody else in the intensive care unit, but, for whatever reason, he chose not to. What a morally bankrupt idea!
Licenced yesterday: children playing on a beach at Eyemouth, Scotland…
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