The lung infection affecting Nelson Mandela’s chest has hit back at the thousands of people who have been offering up prayers for the former SA president over the weekend, reminding them that it (the virus) is one of God’s children too.
The infection criticised church goers who have been praying for the complete recovery of the former president, pointing out that if he pulls through again it would mean almost certain death for the millions of germs who have recently made his lung cavities their home.
Churches across South Africa have been holding prayer gatherings all morning, with almost all prayers being said in favour of Mandela’s complete recovery and hardly any in support of the virus.
Doctors are hoping the former president will be strong enough to leave hospital early on Tuesday morning, giving the chest infection little over 24 hrs to live.
‘It’s always the same’ claimed the exasperated lung infection ‘it’s one rule for us pleural effusions and another for cute baby lion cubs and those fluffy little ostrich chicks. It gets on my tits’.
This is not the first time that people across South Africa have prayed for Mandela’s safe recovery from a viral infection. In 1980 millions of tuberculosis viruses were made homeless following a successful campaign by Christians to have them evicted and earlier this year a stomach bug was shown the back door by Mandela’s loyal ecclesiastical watchdog.
Gallstones removed from the former president last December say they are keeping an eye on proceedings and would consider returning to their homeland in the bladder if the virus proves triumphant in its bid to remain infectious.
Once again the saying of prayers has drawn the Church into a conflict it could well do without.
First it was the ordination of women priests, then the opposition to gay marriage and now it is the persecution of millions of nucleic acid molecules affecting the life of just one person.
Some people are already saying this is one health problem from which the church may never recover.
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Posted 7 years ago #
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Like it, though I am not sure that the bugs aren't praying for his survival too.
If Mandela dies they will die with him, and they are just trying to peacefully coexist and are rueing having selected such a frail host with a hostile immune system. When they were created, the idea was just that they make a bit of a mess and propagate via the man-flu carryings on spreading their offspring far and wide. It was all just supposed to be a bit of fun.
It is the bugs' misfortune that they happened to have cocked up their ecosystem to disastrous effect.
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