The Lord God has a question for humans

The Lord God has a question for humans

I am honored to transmit to you humans a question from God.

God, being all knowing, of course noticed that today you celebrate, or should I say, commemorate “World’s AIDS Day.” God wonders why you do not now go ahead and celebrate, or commemorate, a different disease every day of the year.

God suggests that you go in alphabetical order, so as not to provide too great a strain on astrologers, numerologists, and other special interest groups regarding the selection of particular months and dates for each particular disease.

Thus you could have, and this is just me, the blogger, who is not all knowing, coming up with names off of the top of my head, the following in just the “A’s” alone.

World Allergy Day, World Attention Deficit Disorder Day, World Asperger’s Day, World ALS Day, World Arthritis Day, World Asthma Day, World Autism Day, World Anxiety Day…

Would that not be fun and educational for your children? Just like World’s AIDS Day. Thus not a day would go by that there is not sorrow and special school based activities. (After all, we know that children around the world are all caught up in their basic studies and have ample time to spare worrying about adult worries and woes).

And there would be no scheduling problem, since most secular governments have stopped celebrating such events as the birth days of your great men and women, holy days, or days commemorating saints, or even the birthdays of your current leaders. {Even Great Britain, retaining the custom of the Queen’s Birthday, does not celebrate it on her actual birthday). And look at the United States, who no longer celebrates the actual birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The 4th of July is safe because it is a big summer beer and barbecue weekend. And we of course know what is happening to the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus Christ, who cannot even be mentioned in schools anymore.

So the Lord God suggests that you have every day be assigned a patron disease, disorder, mental illness or, to be traditional, a “plague day.” Children could learn the symptoms (with high technology graphic pictures, of course), learning to produce and self diagnose themselves (handy when there is no medical care). I guess “World Hypochondriac Day” would have to be an important day as a result. But after all, children do not have enough to worry about. Fortunately you would not have “World Abortion Day” since, well, every day is an abortion day, and further it is a “right” or a “choice” and not a medical condition, so it does not match the criterion for commemoration.

Teachers have a difficult time teaching reading, mathematics, history (secular or faith based) and science, but I notice they have no problem with discussing “gross” subjects with their students. So I imagine that teachers would really shine in the daily “Disease Day” celebratory presentations. Hollywood (and Bollywood) can provide any support for the gory scenes, such as what open sores look like. The American policy of “No Child Left Behind” can really come true, as every child will have access to the nightmare of worry about symptoms of their inadequate and deteriorating health. They can also worry about mommy and daddy, brother or sister (and their dog or cat) coming down with each disease they learn about each day (that’s assuming the child has an intact family, of course). After all, children do not have enough glorious things to honor, or bad things to worry about. Why not go “all the way?”

So, um, I hope that everyone has had a, I guess you’d say, “Meaningful” “World AIDS Day,” and just think about all the good that you have done. Much better to “raise awareness” of a disease on a “special day” than a founding father or mother, honored past leader, honored present leader, saint, holy person, or self sacrificing avocation, such as maybe having “World Alms Day” to raise awareness of charitable alms giving.

Don’t bother writing God a reply! (He already knows what you will say or think since he is, after all, the all knowing).