Catholic and Enjoying It!
The curious thing about the Deep Ecology types is that they are typically applauded as well-meaning but eccentric visionaries, as the parlance goes, “care about the Planet.”
But what they propose (and what their celebrants and agitprop types in Hollywood celebrate) is this: the main trouble with Hitler is that he didn’t slaughter *enough* homo sapiens.
One of the curious horse races in our morally, psychologically, and spiritually screwed up culture is the race between our sense of human equality and dignity and our sense of responsibility to creation. Both are, of course, perfectly consonant with revelation: we are made in the image and likeness of God (so slaughtering Jews en masse is a Bad Thing) and we are charged with tending the Garden of Creation (so raping the earth is a Bad Thing too).
But as our culture cuts its roots in the Tradition, what happens is not merely that evils are let loose, but that Christian virtues are let loose too–and they do far more damage because they are isolated from one another and (often) pitted against one another. So we now live in a world that talks incessantly of things like “marriage equality” for pretend gay marriages and takes egalitarianism as a fundamental dogma of the universe–and which lionizes people who say that the entire human race (that would include all those people talking about marriage equality, not to mention all the Jews, minorities, women, etc.) needs to be exterminated because we are a virus infecting the Body of Nature.
Dale Ahlquist once remarked to me that future generation will say, “That’s something that could only have been believed in the late 20th or early 21st century. They were nuts back then.”
I agree.
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