Catholic and Enjoying It!
Today, my minions, I bid you go and contemplate the various prognostications about E.T. in this article and ask yourself, “What do these different scenarios for dealing with the utter silence from space tell us, not about the existence, non-existence, bellicosity, godlike transcendence, brutish Darwinian contempt for weaker life, technological prowess, pagan doom, or Kubrick Evolutionary Wonder of alien races, but about the persistent insistence of the post-Christian mind in finding a replacement for Christian eschatology?” The whole article seems to me to be one huge attempt to do just that, with all the attendent failures of those who, getting rid of God, believe not nothing, but anything. The conclusion–that utter silence from space–somehow holds promise for the future of the human race is as pure an attempt to replace eschatological hope with mere secular physical expansionism as any I know of. The possibility of Heaven or the Second Coming never once figures into our author’s calculations. He is resolute in his refusal to abandon the hope that we can make a heaven of this creation if we just get *big* enough and trust in ourselves sufficiently. It’s the credo of every totalitarian regime of the 20th century.
Of course, with your Dark Lord at the helm of the project it would be different. Then it would work, because I really *am* competent to run your life and (with sufficient applications of our article author’s “liberation biology”) live forever. A sufficiently well planned, orderly and compassionate World Administration under my rule would oversee an expansion to the stars that would colonize the universe and bring happiness, first to me, as the Representative of Mankind, and eventually to you (trust me). Meanwhile, however, you must make sacrifices so that my dreams can come true. Start with sacrificing your children to the Earth, our only true source of life since God does not exist, there is no transcendent hope of Heaven, and all our hopes are pinned on nothing higher than biological success. This is the first thing they teach you at Dark Lord school.
That is all!
Update: John C. Wright explains it all!
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