11 Aug 2020 | 04:27am IST

Mariano H Correia

If you read and ponder minutely the various happenings occurring in this chaotic and disorganised world, one cannot deny that it could be a bad omen to humanity. Most precisely now in the 21st century many distasteful events are on the rise. There is no justice and peace amongst Nations, one sees the other as its foe and as such it looks like the world is heading for a massive catastrophe.

In the newspaper it is routine to read more unpalatable news then otherwise. News of floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, terrorism, rapes and murders corruption at higher levels, cases of dacoity and terrible accidents both in the air and on land engulfs the whole newspaper. There is no space for good news as there exists none. Humankind is more prone to fast buck making by hook or by crook, come what may. Man has forgotten the idea of God and for most of them money and power are their Gods in this materialistic world.

Spirituality has taken a back seat and has been replaced by apostasy, debauchery, promiscuity, and sexual immorality. Atheism has prevailed over theism. The pandemic of COVID-19 that we are presently facing is the price we have to pay for our actions and wrongdoings. We know that the Almighty is just, all loving, merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and prompt to forgive and forget. This pandemic of COVID-19 which originated at Wuhan in China is giving sleepless nights to one and all, to the elite and the poor alike around the globe. The whole world so to say is waging a war on this invisible, tiniest of the tiny nano particle sized virus called the Novel Corona Virus 2019 as it started showing its ugly head in the fag end of December 2019.Millions and millions of people are affected and infected throughout the world and lakhs of people have succumbed to it. Its transmission is at a lightning speed.

The medical fraternity and research scientists the world over are burning midnight oil to come out with an effective vaccine to curb the same. It is still many more months away from being tried on humans, so as to ascertain its preventive effects on the deleterious symptoms and morbidity in acute and critical cases. You may say I am a pessimist, which I am. Some may agree, some may not.

Instead of worshipping, praising and thanking God, we adore mammon (money) and worldly power as our gods. Our God being a just, loving, merciful and compassionate one, at the same time a jealous God who does not want or tolerate other idol gods before him. That is why I say God has sent this scourge of this pandemic of COVID-19 to make his creation (mankind) aware of the apostasy that has been committed by man. God has lot of patience and is expecting to see how long will man keep aloof from Him, when He is waiting anxiously with open arms to embrace him. Likewise, the beginning of the universe God had warned humanity of the various possible catastrophes that would happen if His people desert Him, and go after other gods who are just idols having eyes, but cant see, having ears, but cant hear and having mouths but cant speak.

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