CHRIS ROPER: Mogoeng’s vaccine apocalypse
There were many deranged elements to the chief justice’s speech last week (divine mining, anyone?) but the worst of it was that it made the Covid-19 anti-vaxxers think they’re not untethered from reality
Let us do chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng the disservice, disguised as a courtesy, of pretending to believe that his God and his devil are real. Many of us, thanks to the super-efficient propaganda machinery of what we could amusingly term Big Religion, have at least a vague idea of who the Christian God purports to be. But God’s inseparable companion Satan, the Morty to his Rick, if you will, gets far less press.
But first, why do we care about Satan? At a Gauteng government event held at Tembisa Hospital last week, God’s chief justice, Mogoeng Mogoeng, offered a public prayer which went like this: "I lock out every demon of Covid-19, I lock out any vaccine that is not of you. If there be any vaccine that is of the devil, meant to infuse 666 in the lives of people, meant to corrupt their DNA … any such vaccine, may it be destroyed.."..
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