Masks, by virtue of concealing our faces, deny the expression of just those features that reveal to a greater extent than all others our humanity. The face, in its entirety, discloses the spark of the divine that resides within the human being and which makes him…a person. Nor need one be a conscious believer in God in order to concede that the facial countenance, more so than any other aspect of the body, affirms the person’s standing as a moral agent, a being with an inviolable dignity, possessing rights and duties.
The Mask, in veiling the face, then, dehumanizes the human being who wears it. It divests the Masquerader of his…humanity. As such, it undercuts the inherent dignity that belongs to human beings as human beings, i.e. bearers of the image of the God in whose likeness they were made. Consequently, Masqueraders are Corona Walkers, zombies not as dissimilar as we’d like think they’d be from the zombies on The Walking Dead.
A masked society is decidedly less human, and, we can assume, will end up being less humane. Read the entire article at the link below.
https://thenewamerican.com/beware-the-lefts-empire-of-the-mask-rand-paul-warns/
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