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CH 16: Lost opportunity for the faithful and their leaders

Despite having fought one another over religion for centuries, I have seen little effort on the part of the believers and their leaders to understand or relate to the religious underpinnings of my existence. If you believe in God being the giver and taker of lives, have you considered what message He may be sending through the ordeal you have experienced in me? If in death you are to leave this world alone, not accompanied by your near and dear ones, you got a glimpse of this even when alive. Being infected and in quarantine, at times counting your days in isolation, you got a sense of how the final journey may feel like.

You saw yourselves as supreme beings and felt invincible because of the money, technology, and power of the material world. Then you saw how a small dose of me, invisible to human eyes, was enough to infect hundreds of millions, bringing the entire world to a standstill and near collapse. Whereas you need more than 100,000 kilos of nuclear bombs to destroy the world, the Creator could do the same to all of your lives with just a 50-nanometer particle, without you ever having witnessed it with your naked eyes, and with very little destruction caused to anything else as a nuclear weapon would have done in my place.

No matter how wealthy and powerful you are, if you are one of those who believe in God’s existence, He showed you how vulnerable and helpless you can become within a matter of seconds. Even at funeral, it was a lonely goodbye as loved ones could only pray from a distance, not allowed to lay the deceased in final rest. The Creator did not need money, technology, or power to freeze you from end to end across the world. He only needed His will. He could isolate communities, regions, nations, continents, societies, and the entire world at a time you thought you could travel anywhere at anytime. Most importantly, He showed how life can be extinguished within seconds and how, without notice, all your material possessions and yearnings can evaporate so quickly into thin air.

It was surprising that very few, if any, of your religious leaders could make this connection and relate my existential threat to the greater messages that may have been coming from above the sky. Let this not be a missed opportunity for believers and their leaders from across the world.

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