whose fault is it
Reply to Altmann
Last Saturday, a man named Robert Altmann from Echternach had the Wort published a letter entitled “Whose fault is it?” “And in subtitle” The Plague – by Albert Camus and the plague of the coronavirus which has fallen on humanity “.
Cathos confronted with the enigma of an omniscient, omnipotent God, said to be streaming with LOVE and who nonetheless passively witnesses one of the greatest catastrophes that humanity has ever experienced, see their faith faltering.
They begin to wonder about this cynical God, who from his “living”, had taught his disciples from “the blind from birth”, that the fault of this poor victim is not attributable either to herself , nor to his parents… but that God has his part in it, “it is so that the action of God can be manifested through him”.
It is from this “pedagogy”, to use an expression repeated by the media all day long, that the Church built the sinister theory of the test, which allowed her to sit on a solid base the bondage and patience of the little man.
I find in the large documentation that I had established to attack intramural Christianity, a preaching delivered in 1736 by Blanchard – prior and lord of Saint-Marc-les-Vendômes.
Very prescient.
It looks like, reading it, in the middle of a coronavirus crisis.
“You are working with a violent cough, your lungs are exhausted, your stomach rejects food, you are consumed by a slow fever which makes you ethical …
In a word, you find yourself overwhelmed by the multitude of evils that afflict you …
If you are wise, you will recognize that all these kinds of illness are as many gifts as God has given you. ”
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It takes a sick brain to write such revolting things.
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So in summary, if God tests you, don’t complain, it’s because he loves you.
It was out of love that he chose you to live the worst.
It is a rare privilege and you should be thankful for it.
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It’s incredible cretinism.
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At the time of the terrible tsunami which killed hundreds of thousands of people, a Jesuit writing at the Wort, calmed the flock by similar incongruities.
Now, in the midst of a coronavirus crisis, a devastating epidemic having already caused 30,000 deaths, Altmann, in his letter, repeats the old theory of testing.
He cites St. John and the example of the blind from birth.
Knowing that it is in very bad taste to insist more, he quickly falls back on a side arabesque and he will find somewhere divine goodness in the solidarity of the brothers and sisters who help each other out of the test that God imposed on them, once more out of love.
Let’s read what he writes:
“I would like to quote here a short extract from the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John of the 4th Sunday of Lent (9,1-41). This is the passage relating to the blind from birth. “Whose fault is he blind, ask his disciples of Jesus, of him or his parents? “Neither to him nor to his parents, replies Jesus, it is so that the action of God is manifested through him”. This is at least the version given by the new translation of the Bible. Must we not recognize that in the current crisis, the action of God, if it exists, manifests itself through so many volunteers, who commit themselves to the service of their brothers and sisters in distress, whether in hospitals, retirement homes or other vital sectors of society, whether believers or unbelievers, all united in solidarity, and who, after all, only do their job as men, seeking, as Doctor Rieux in “The plague”, to cure the sick? ”
Vir wéi saudoumm hâlen d‘Paafen hir Bridder a Schwësteren ?!
March 30, 2020.
Gaston VOGEL
