Suddenly, I see that people in all countries have begun turning to God, religion and spirituality to desperately try and seek and find all sorts of explanations for the pandemic that has hit us all and is causing untold havoc in the world and our lives.
“Is there a lesson to be learnt from what is happening?” they ask themselves. “Is it a sign from God that we must heed to reform ourselves? Is the virus in some mysterious sort way a Messenger of God? “
To attribute divine cause or agency for the deadly Wuhan virus attack today is, in my opinion, nothing but the human world unfairly trying to scapegoat the Almighty for the tragedy we brought upon ourselves through our own misdeeds.
The scientific evidence emerging from US CDC and WHO researchers is slowly pointing to the cause of the virus outbreak being “accidental escape of man-made pathogens from a laboratory in Wuhan, China”.
Scientists from US and China it seems were collaborating there on a type of virological research that was scientifically exciting perhaps but ethically very dangerous.
Trying to “weaponise” animal viruses without adequate safety controls in a laboratory is akin to developing nuclear weapons in a reactor with no regulatory oversight protocols at all in place .
This is not the first time Scientists have let mankind down … We all know how dangerous and secretive scientific experiments back in the 1930s in both USA and Europe ended up producing devastating atomic bombs . … which to this day many countries of the world are stockpiling as WMD (weapons of mass destruction) and which are grave and present danger and a constant existential threat to all living beings on this planet.
More than 1 million innocent citizens who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the victims of “rogue” scientific research in weapons-grade nuclear fusion. Today close to 3 million people have died from the Wuhan Covid virus — and they are the poor innocent victims of “rogue” scientific research into weapons-grade virology too.
Humanity must learn to take full responsibility for its own crimes and guilt. There is no point invoking the name of God here and conveniently passing on the buck to him. We need no messages from God if only we knew how to heed the wisdom of our own.
Mankind must learn the important lesson the poet Robert Browning’s lines taught us: that if all must be right with us in the world then, firstly, we must know how to leave God remain alone in his heavens … undisturbed and unperturbed…
“And day’s at the morn;
Morning’s at seven;
The hill-side’s dew-pearl’d;
The lark’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn;
God’s in His heaven –
All’s right with the world!
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
SUDARSHAN MADABUSHI