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We must admit that the Culture of Death has done a marvelous job at undercutting the Christian foundations on which the United States was built. While the question of when this devolution began can be disputed, that it has arrived cannot be denied. The Church has been warned about the threat to Christian culture long before St. John Paul the Great used the term “Culture of Death” to great effect in his 1995 papal encyclical, Evangelium Vitae. Alas, in recent years the Vatican has been more eager to join Caesar’s view of the world than to challenge it. Let us consider environmentalism.
In June of 2015 Pope Francis issued the encyclical, Laudato Si. This was the first ever papal document focused on the environment. It was received with much enthusiasm by many modernist cultural icons such as Yale University and CNN. The later news organization excitedly reported the arrival of the encyclical with a clever click bait title, “The Pope’s 10 Commandments on Climate Change.” There was much for progressives to cheer; the document was a detailed embrace of one of the key “Culture of Death” beliefs, climate change. The heft of the encyclical is impressive. It is about 2 ½ times longer than Evangelium Vitae. The content of Laudato Si is much preferred by Caesar. It focuses on pollution, alternative energy, and consumerism rather than the morally dogmatic topics of abortion and euthanasia that John Paul II discussed in his papal encyclical addressing the Culture of Death.
Laudato Si does contain some beautiful language and even a bit of theology and philosophy, as well as some efforts to link itself to traditional Church teaching. Yet, its focus gives secularists the belief that the Church agrees with the proposition that people are bad, the planet is good. The Holy See’s official policies do little to challenge that perspective. Last year The Vatican formally joined both the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 2015 Paris Agreement.
How is all the above linked to “Soylent Green”? To begin let me inform younger readers what the term means. Soylent Green was a 1973 science fiction movie that looked at the US in the then far off year 2022. At that time, the film tells us that the evils of overpopulation, pollution, and global warming (yes, that altar was already constructed back then) have devastated the planet. So, an enterprising but evil company decided to make food out of dead bodies. In the end the hero figures it out but is wounded in a battle with the bad guys. He shouts out the bone-chilling warning to the crowd, “Soylent Green is people!”
Continued below.
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In June of 2015 Pope Francis issued the encyclical, Laudato Si. This was the first ever papal document focused on the environment. It was received with much enthusiasm by many modernist cultural icons such as Yale University and CNN. The later news organization excitedly reported the arrival of the encyclical with a clever click bait title, “The Pope’s 10 Commandments on Climate Change.” There was much for progressives to cheer; the document was a detailed embrace of one of the key “Culture of Death” beliefs, climate change. The heft of the encyclical is impressive. It is about 2 ½ times longer than Evangelium Vitae. The content of Laudato Si is much preferred by Caesar. It focuses on pollution, alternative energy, and consumerism rather than the morally dogmatic topics of abortion and euthanasia that John Paul II discussed in his papal encyclical addressing the Culture of Death.
Laudato Si does contain some beautiful language and even a bit of theology and philosophy, as well as some efforts to link itself to traditional Church teaching. Yet, its focus gives secularists the belief that the Church agrees with the proposition that people are bad, the planet is good. The Holy See’s official policies do little to challenge that perspective. Last year The Vatican formally joined both the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 2015 Paris Agreement.
How is all the above linked to “Soylent Green”? To begin let me inform younger readers what the term means. Soylent Green was a 1973 science fiction movie that looked at the US in the then far off year 2022. At that time, the film tells us that the evils of overpopulation, pollution, and global warming (yes, that altar was already constructed back then) have devastated the planet. So, an enterprising but evil company decided to make food out of dead bodies. In the end the hero figures it out but is wounded in a battle with the bad guys. He shouts out the bone-chilling warning to the crowd, “Soylent Green is people!”
Continued below.
Soylent Green is People! Will the Vatican Respond?
January 17, 2023 (Edward J. Barr) – We must admit that the Culture of Death has done a marvelous job at undercutting the Christian foundations on which the United States was built. While…
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