Posted on 04/08/2008 11:48:41 AM PDT by fanfan
Yesterday, Post readers were moved by the image of our Prime Minister, in Poland on April 5, kneeling at the Death Wall of Auschwitz, the worst of the Holocaust extermination camps. In the museum guest book he wrote, "Lord, bless the souls of those who suffered and perished here, and deliver us from evil."
Prime Minister Stephen Harper pays tribute to Holocaust victim at Auschwitz.Peter Andrews/Reuters.
Stephen Harper's prayerful posture and traditional words of commemoration for the lost souls of a barbaric era reveal a sensibility noticeably out of sync with the religion of environmentalism that presently dominates our culture.
The contrast was illuminated in the coincidence of Mr. Harper's expression of reverence for human life with the contempt for human life displayed by Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society chief. In reaction to the March 29 maritime deaths of four seal hunters, Watson declared the deaths of seals a "greater tragedy."
Publicly discomfited, Green party leader Elizabeth May resigned from the advisory board of Sea Shepherd, but tellingly (rather like Obama with his racist pastor, Jeremiah White) wouldn't distance herself personally from Paul Watson. As a faithful adherent to their mutual church -- Our Gaia of all that is Non-Human -- to which she remains fully committed, May elected to stand by Watson for the sake of his "good work."
But what "good work" can compensate for Watson's advocacy of a population-decimating cap of one billion people, or calling human beings "the AIDS of the Earth?"
Watson should be a social pariah. Instead he's been touted by Time, that iconic pulse-taker of our culture, as an "Environmental Hero of the Twentieth Century," which speaks volumes about the inability of our society's wildly vacillating moral compass to locate true north.
Watson is the symbol of a movement that originated in a desire to improve the planet's physical condition, but transmogrified into the zero-sum dogma of eco-spirituality, in which the object of worship is the environment, and the messianic goal its return to a pre-civilization Edenic state. In this scenario, Earth is perennial victim, mankind eternal villain, the consumption of natural resources original sin. No emotionally manipulative appeal is beyond the pale for this pagan religion's demagogues, even the shameful appropriation of racist tropes. Alpha eco-spiritualist novelist Alice Walker claims, "the Earth is the nigger of the world."
The case of Englishwoman Toni Vernelli illustrates the disturbingly irrational nature of this death-friendly replacement of Christianity. In 2000, at age 27, Vernelli had herself sterilized so as to "reduce her carbon footprint" and "protect the planet." "Every person who is born," Vernelli lamented, "uses more food, more water, more land…and produces more rubbish, more pollution."
The West's plunging demographics suggest that, however extremist their views, Watson and Vernelli do represent an influential cultural shift. Canada's fertility rate is presently 1.54%, lower than China's one-baby 1.7%. Italy, whose fertility rate is a shocking 1.23%, "has lost a little of its will for the future," understates Rome's Mayor, Walter Veltroni.
The anti-natalist movement's guru is a philosophy professor from Cape Town University, David Benatar. In 2006 Benatar published Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence, which unabashedly advocates the extinction of humanity. It is always wrong to have children, Benatar claims, urging a "pro-death" view of abortion.
Is anti-natalism an historical first, a natural consequence of easy birth control? No. Cultural defeatism isn't technology dependent. In about 150 BCE, an ancient called Polybius wrote, "The whole of Greece has been subject to a low birthrate and a general decrease of the population." His explanation: "For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice and indolence that they did not wish to marry, or if they married to rear children born to them, or at most as a rule one or two of them … the evil rapidly and insensibly grew."
Anti-natalists are gentler exterminators than Nazis. No gassings, no ovens, just ideology induced suicide. The perfect world of the Nazis was judenrein -- free of Jews. The ideal world of antinatalists like Watson is menschenrein --people-free.
Wringing our hands and letting the Pope and other theological polemicists do the heavy intellectual lifting on this issue won't do. A return to the Judeo-Christian values that produced Western civilization is our best offence against the hollow purposelessness of militant secularism, the abhorent vacuum that loves the moral cretinism of anti-natalism.
We can love the Earth without hating its inhabitants. Demonstrating reverence for the dead is not enough. Mr. Harper must institute policies that show reverence for the lives to come.
bkay@videotron.ca
Ping.
Even Canadians can see Barack Hussein Obama’s hypocrisy? That's very telling. I think the MSM’s dream that Pastorgate doesn't have legs is whistling past the graveyard.
Remember all those rat experiments where the researchers crowd the rats into cages and then observe as they kill each other? The experimenters conclude that overcrowding causes some of them to go crazy.
Looks like that’s happening to us, and the libs are the crazy rats.
I have been told by someone who is fairly expert on the subject that the modern Greeks are the decendents of Christian Greeks. The Classical pagan Greeks stopped having children and died out. Scary.
As are literally billions of others..
Can anyone say.. Nuclear holocaust.. and anarchy?..
Check this out... http://www.vhemt.org/
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
“May we live long and die out”
Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth’s biosphere to return to good health. Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense.
words fail me.....
I say let them go first
Only the smart ones. Much like down there.;-)
Those are good words.
I know. LOL.
I came across these guys some years back and had a good laugh between spasms of moral horror. Much of what is touted as "progressive" is a thinly-disguised hatred of humanity in itself--the VHEM's disguise is even flimsier. In fact, these guys are teetering on the edge of the demonic, though they probably don't realize it.
We’ve reached the tippling point!
Crowding??? Do the math......
Each and every person in the world (est pop. 6.6 billion) could inhabit the state of Texas and have 1135 sq feet of space. (Avg one bedroom apt is about 750 sq feet.)
Bookmark.
And once a far-left president is seated along with far-left majorities in congress and they have confirmed far-left justices to the courts we will see the lunatics of the environmental movement, the homosexual activists, anti second amendment groups and race baiters exercising considerable influence and pushing agendas. And they will be listened to and their insanity will color much legislation and regulation.
The lust for power that infects virtually every political type has brought us to the brink of the de facto end of the American experiment. Most of the talk we hear about the constitution (and we don’t hear much these days) is nothing but lip service. Elect the leftists and even lip service will end.
And the perfect world for me would be moron-free!
Maybe it's me, but I'm not sure Texas would be very willing to go along with that idea. ;)
FWIW, I actually used that in a speech I gave on the fallacies of overpopulation in high school and the token hippie wannabe in our class asked me "but the problem with that is...people poop, aren't you worried about that?"
Without missing a beat, and while the rest of the publick skool drones giggled for a second, I said, "so? Poop has nitrogen and nutrients, it's good for the soil. At least if you're not a vegetarian."
(Needless to say that girl never liked me. I can't imagine why.)
So how do we fool the ‘rats into signing up for this?? Then they’d be extinct in a few years, and a Godly, moral people could bring back sense! Utopia!
Oops, let me clarify. How do we get the democrats to sign up for the voluntary no-breeding club? :)
Interesting info to learn - and no, I wouldn’t want 6 billion people living in my State.... ;^)
Hell, I'm kind of uneasy about 12,000 people living in my suburban community. And just how did we get to this point in the thread without a token "SECURE THE BORDERS!" post?
Secure the borders? Heck I live in Houston, we’ve been invaded and conquered. I’m the minority because English is my native language......
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