Pernicious Pestilence and Plagiarism

Let's deal with the issue of plagiarism right up front: some of the material in the following screed is lifted directly from the King James Bible, but so what?  I'm not the first to plagiarize Ezekiel and Kings and I will not be the last. At this point I need their wisdom to bolster my premise: the Corno 19 plague is all part of the master plan of that mythological clock Master that set the galaxies and the planets and the individual Earth-lives spinning in their assigned orbits.

Here is Ezekiel 5:17 telling us how the LORD made people see things His way: "So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee.  I, the LORD have spoken."

Listen to 1 Kings 8:37, in which Solomon describes how the LORD "sent a pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be..."

There are many more Biblical authors who beat the same drum, but the point they all agree on is that mighty forces prevail when men or mammals get out of line.  Who, us? Creatures of the Earth?  We get out of line? Let us count the ways:

Remember way back in that other century when those sex-crazed grasshoppers visited those Mormons in Utah and all the grasshoppers wanted to do was procreate and feast on the crops? See what happened. Yo, here come the sea gulls.

The LORD doesn't like it when His flock gets out of balance. Those hoppers weren't satisfied with just becoming fishing lures and providing entertainment for capture-inspired boys and girls.

And yes, you Adam and you too Eve.  You both accepted the mission to go out and multiply but you wayyy overdid it.  And what your progeny did to the Garden is beyond forgiveness. Extracting minerals and carbon-based material with no regard to the environment. Destroying the planet's lungs by cutting down most of its trees.  Filling earth's most precious treasure, its oceans, with plastic garbage and using the life-sustaining reservoir of air as a sewer is only a small list of the insults to the magnificent gifts that were given to a virgin planet.

Need we ask why a non-forgiving agent has come among us, thinning the herd?  No surprise that the ones with walkers and canes who can't keep up are the first to fall. Oh, you don't buy Guy-in-the-Sky meddling?  Try NATURE DEMANDS BALANCE (grasshoppers taken care of but what about these 12 trillion Homo sapiens?). Or something else. The one thing we do know for sure is that something put a really big you-know-what in our punch bowl.

Don't forget to wash your hands.