Google penicillin + miracle together and you get over a third of a million references, in English alone.
So wartime penicillin was clearly one of God's miracles, n'est c'est pas ?
But what if it was one of God's paradoxes instead ?
We all recall how much GK Chesterton loved to talk about God's paradoxes and how freely he added many of his own.
Adolf Hitler love to 'talk' too - rants usually.
All too often about how Jews were fungoid growths and fungus ferments.
Adolf and German right wing culture of his era generally all had a real mania for seeing Jews as literally being cultural fungus pathogens bent dissolving the German organic society.
During WWII, the Nazis saw the entire war as being about a fungoid growth taking the world by storm ---- with the Aryan race resisting it all the way, in a case of it being either them or us.
That proved to be the case, because in 1945, the Nazi Aryan vision was totally defeated and penicillin did indeed take the entire world by storm....
"Isn't it ironic," sings Alanis M.....
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