Murphy's Book of Job

Thursday, May 21, 2020

 It appears that my Governor wants to be teach us all the classic biblical story of Job.

 Biblical Scholars of course differ what was the actual original version of Job. Some claim that the original story was so bitter that they had to add a frame to it I'd give it a happy ending.

In the version that is most often taught in literary classes, Job is a righteous man who loves God and who God has rewarded by giving him good health good family and wealth.

as The Story Goes Satan came up to God and claim that job only loves him for what God gives him and that if God should take that away Job who is symbolic of all Humanity would turn against God.

God takes the wager and begins to strip of Job of all those things that make life good. taking away first his wealth and then then his family and then finally his health.

Job to his credit remains true to his love of God although in what is considered one of the most controversial stories in the Bible, he does come to question God's wisdom and perhaps even God's sanity.

In the modern version of the story we can substitute Murphy who plays both the role of Satan and God and we watch the state take away things as a test of our faith.

 Of course, this is a poor metaphor since Murphy has already expressed a distaste for religion with his forced mandate for curriculum for school kids so closing the church was not really a test at all but a bit of a sideshow to see how pissed off he could get Christians and perhaps even taking a shot at Jews when he closed down there Sabbath as well.

Unfortunately Murphy also does not particularly respect working people which is why he forces them to not only pay for their own kids college but to pay in taxes the colleges education of illegal aliens and other benefits to other groups that are part of his political agenda.

Despite this and other atrocities inflicted on New Jersey residents even before the covid 19 epidemic, polls showed that people still loved Murphy just the way Job continue to love God.

But Murphy in his ultimate wisdom decided that it was time to strip many of them of their jobs, their businesses, and other means of providing for their families.

Maybe Murphy decided that if Christians could create homeschooling to avoid his dictates for curriculum then he could send all student home to become homeschooled as well so that by remote he could continue the liberal propaganda.

Murphy then ordered all people to be locked up in their homes where they would not be threatened by the plague he claimed was upon the land.  he was not completely unforgiving in that he did not let them starve heat allowed Taco Bell and other such healthy food services to deliver so guaranteeing that if people did not die of the plague they might die of overweight or heart attacks – all of which the state would then count as deaths caused by coronavirus.

But also allowed people to seek out stores that offered essential services – although he made it easier for people to get an abortion than toilet paper.

He ordered people to wear masks when they shopped and suggested that people could catch the plague if they touched something someone else touched and so they went crazy and put on gloves – as the CDC later claimed they didn’t need – against a virus that turned out to be far less lethal for those actually exposed, even though the inflated death count rivalled other pandemics such as those in 1969 and 1957.

All this seems to be a test of endurance, how much God Murphy could put us through and how silly he could make us look before we gave up faith and condemned him for the sadist he appears to be.

Old Testament Satan would have really got his kicks out of seeing how stupid people looked walking on the streets wearing gloves and masks, standing six feet apart from each other so that even loved ones could not caress or give each other comfort.  it is very difficult to kiss someone through a mask especially when you think that someone is going to kill you with the virus.

And  yet, like the original Job, many of us retained our faith in Murphy, believing that he was doing all this to keep us safe  even though he then sent all of our parents and grandparents and other elderly loved one to their deaths by forcing them to cohabitate with sick people.

Perhaps ultimately, Murphy or someone else will rewrite this story of Job the way Moses allegedly rewrote the original in order to provide us all with a happy ending.

Even though Job thought God was crazy much in the way we all think Murphy is, it is possible Murphy will restore all those things that were taken away health, wealth and happiness.  God even gave job a new family to replace those that he had destroyed in his Wrath.

The big question here with here is whether Murphy can restore Our Lives to be whole again or must we all live under this new normal he has dictated.

Can Murphy give us back the jobs we’ve lost, the businesses he destroyed, and if he is really the God-like figure he seems to think he is, can he resurrect our dead relations the way Christ did Lazarus?