A Prayer More in Keeping with Our Great Pre-COVID-19 Progress (so rudely interrupted)

We thank thee, O Lord, that this same glorious Beijing, which once was moved to create an unprecedentedly harsh, exacting and uncompromising, anti-social and even anti-human socialism (even as all things social and human must needs be subject to periodic revolutionary upheaval), has been pleased in the fulness of time, and in the abundance of its wisdom, to create a Maoist capitalism equivalent to, and fulfilment of, that same glorious Maoist socialist experiment.

We thank thee that this truly unprecedented capitalism, solely by its own strength, brilliance and dogged determination, has lifted so many unworthy multitudes out of poverty, both within its own borders and far beyond them, even unto Africa and Europe and America - even as our own want of faith in Beijing, and undue harshness towards its legitimate mistakes, have begun to plunge us back into a conceivably still worse poverty.

We humbly beseech thee to grant us true repentance, and Beijing's holy spirit, that we may once again strive to be some small part, however unworthy, of that glorious, inevitable and impregnable post-human Future which the People's Republic has so kindly undertaken to build alike for us, and for all humankind, unto all ages. Amen.

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