A myriad things happened since my last entry in 2019; there's no time to start writing. Perhaps today is a good point—Easter season. It doesn't mean this nasty SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is over, but perhaps we can hold its horns and fight it. We're confronted with major changes in which all competing influences meet, and eventually find equilibrium. Change meets resistance, and resistance pains. And in time there's balance.
These are trying times. Quarantine became a byword fast, and people are commanded to wear face masks and shields, and practice physical distancing of > 1 meter. We're thrown into a war where the enemy is invisible, much like the Predator. And in war, no one is an atheist.
Regardless of religion, ideology or ethnicity, we're all brothers and sisters. Contrary to what extremists say, Christians and Muslims, e.g., don't mutually exclude each other, and this extends to all people even to those who don't have any beliefs. In this regard, the Catechism states:
the plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator. In the first place amongst these there are the Muslims, who, professing to hold the faith of Abraham, along with us adore the one and merciful God, who on the last day will judge mankind. [Dogmatic Constitution on the Church: Lumen Gentium 16 (CCC 841)]
On the other hand, Muslims agree that Jews and Christians of good will are also rewarded by God in heaven (cf. Quran 2.62, 215). Even with our own non-negotiables, we ought to tolerate or preferably love each other.
"May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance (Jude 2 NABRE)."
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