Solidarity at Issue: Pandemics and Religious Belief

A global pandemic such as that of the 2020 Covid-19 corona virus, causing great suffering and loss life, brings home difficult conditions make for our fragile human life. But question religious belief poses, about “natural evil” in a world created by loving God, satirised Voltaire 18th century, masks more existential problem, possibility greater solidarity. In background is Deist view God complementing “polite society” mutual benefit guaranteeing latter’s benevolent outcome. It worldview, Charles Taylor (2007) explains, has put aside premodern idea transformation, was symbolised virtuosi, saints, theophanies, so on, now looked upon with suspicion modernity. generous response to suffering, what called pandemic. Camus’ novel, The Plague, we see authentic resists being boxed enthusiasts constricted ideological affirmation cosmic picture obscures fault-lines bourgeois society.