I don’t really know what else to call what I see when I go out, or turn on the news, except that a new religious fundamentalism is spreading like a cancer before our eyes. The superstitious fear of an invisible phantom killer moving silently through the masses, the behavioral tenets handed down from On High, the blind worship of ‘Science’, lashing out at non-believers, spreading the gospel of the End of Days, where a Great Flood (in this case, a virus) has been unleashed by an angry god in order to cleanse the Earth of non-believers. The parallels are endless.
As the great Morgan Smith has said, the mask is the new burka, serving a purpose similar to that of the burka. It is a sign of obedience, of submission and allegiance, to the new religion and the new god. Just look how natural it is for us as a species to backpedal straight into the gaping maw of the God State, where religion and authority exist as one. Too many of us are allowing ourselves to be seduced by the easy slavery that this will lead to. Resisting it, though, takes an act of will that not too many possess.
Sure, the acolytes of this reworked fundamentalism speak of Science, but when they do all I hear is God. As I’ve said before, we’re hardwired to seek out a god, and to place it in a position of absolute authority. We’re watching that process play out in broad daylight right in front of us.
And why do most of these people become highly offended when they encounter evidence that the virus may be fading away? Why do they seem not to care about the effects of lockdown on mortality and health? Because it’s a religion they’ve accepted, whether they know it or not.
And really, the news makes much more sense when you realize that millions of people are in thrall to a new religion.
What once appeared insane, now has a pattern, and a logic, however perverse it may be.
