Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label idolatry

COVID-19 and the Idolatry of Comfort

There's a lot that I don't know, but one thing I do know is that 2020 will go down as a year of infamy.  This seems to be the consensus these days.  You may believe that COVID-19 is our century-defining pandemic, or you may be convinced that Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci manufactured a crisis to further their vaccine agenda, but you undoubtedly feel that the events of 2020 will ripple into the decades to come.  Finally, we've found something upon which we can all agree! I think we can also agree that crises reveal character.  Yes, crises can also build character, but they ultimately reveal it.  They unveil our constitution, showing us who and what we really are.  This pandemic is no exception.  In a world dominated by social media the COVID-19 pandemic quickly became political.  Information spread as rapidly as misinformation, virtue-signalers and libertarians engaged in heated meme warfare, and people engineered masks from all kinds of asinine o...