Defiled

 "Then the priest shall command that the house is emptied before he examines the house itself, in case what is the house is what has caused the pollution". Leviticus 14:36.

In the first season (entitled 'Signs and Portents'... more on that later) of the Science Fiction show Babylon 5, there is a troubling episode entitled Infection. A group of archaeological technologists from earth have uncovered a cache of bio-machines from a long dead culture and bring them aboard the space station. Here, these machines merge with one of the team members and re-produce an ancient warrior whose primary goal was to rid his world of anything alien and intrusive. Unfortunately, the A I program has a very exact definition of what is acceptable, and everything living that does not fit this criteria is instantly deemed "impure" and therefore must be exterminated.

Thankfully, the commander of the station (in very Captain James T Kirk fashion... had to get that in) finds a weak spot in the program, and exploits this to shut-down the bio-weapon. The leader of the expedition and the artefacts are then returned to earth for an official enquiry... but strangely, they vanish amidst government red tape.

The season is called 'signs and portents' because all of these manner of incidents are the glimpses - the signs - of what is coming... a cosmic war with all-encompassing consequences.

The 'signs' of the times we now face are most certainly resonating with the basic story and consequences of this tale.

This week, Saudi Arabia made it illegal to do almost anything outside your own home - including taking a child to school or visiting a shop - unless you provide proof of double vaccination. A country which still practices various austere punishments for minor crimes, no doubt, has no issue prescribing such 'purity', but a reporter in the Washington Post stated that such a law was the most "progressive" legislation he had ever witnessed, putting the regime far ahead of the West, which should clearly learn from this and quickly follow the example.

Our gradual encroachment here of 'jab required' policy hasn't quite reached that point as yet (the UK Government clearly aren't as up front in respect to their hypocrisy as the President of France), but it's now clear what the 'direction of travel' on all of this is to be - holding to a different position on the current vaccination program to the powers that be is not acceptable, so our PM can state "ALL must be jabbed", as he signs up to an accord to see the entire globe injected with an experimental vaccine by 2022.

In the days of settlement into the promised land, the Lord makes it clear to the people of Israel that when infection breaks out either in a community, or livestock, or in a property, it's essential, to reach a remedy, that the genuine cause of the problem is identified and dealt with.

We would have appeared to have reached a point here in the UK where the present biological threat is in recession (the winter flu season may well be another story), but what this has left in its wake, due to the manner of analysis and 'containment' employed by our authorities, is a far more dangerous and disgusting viral contagion - one which has poisoned the attitudes and behaviour of many to believe that the only way to achieve purity for the future is to expunge or at least ghetto those who are now viewed as nothing more than a cause of infection.

As our venues (and, perhaps far more worrying, our employers) begin to excise those who are defined as the 'unclean' of the hour, those doing the expelling need to be deeply concerned, not only because of the inherent wickedness that history shows us is endemic to such a process, but because once this is implemented, you can be certain it won't be too long before other groups become equally seen as not 'good' enough due to some trait that becomes vile.

Woke culture is truly incapable of allowing any room for mercy or forgiveness... that is the ideology that is now upon us.

Reject what is evil. Hold fast to what is good, whatever the cost.