Spotted this banner yesterday in the handsome market town of Malton: food for thought rather than prayer. Let me get this straight. You’re petitioning a supernatural being, who is both omniscient and omnipotent, in the hope that he will listen to our prayerful entreaties and, presumably, act. You keep saying that God has a plan for us: a plan which currently includes the unchecked advance of a contagion for which we have no cure. We have to assume that his current plan for humanity includes thinning out the herd by picking off the stragglers. Is he really going to change his plan because a few people ask him to? Is he at the beck and call of true believers? Is this how an omnipotent being behaves? If God wanted to rid the world of coronavirus, he could do it in an instant. The fact that he doesn’t should give us pause for thought. May I suggest a more appropriate slogan: Light a candle, say a prayer, wallow in self-delusion…
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