January 12th, 2010
Pope Benedict XVI, who just yesterday called gay marriage an attack on “creation and the natural order” (Portugal has become the latest country to approve the legalization of gay marriages; a gay couple got married in Argentina last week), has already proclaimed against the dangers of turning nature into a “new divinity.”
The pope also denounced the “supposedly egalitarian vision” that human beings and other living creatures should be placed on the same plane of existence, adding that such a worldview would “open the way to a new pantheism tinged with neo-paganism, which would see the source of man’s salvation in nature alone, understood in purely naturalistic terms.” Vatican spoke against the idea propagating the idea of ecology as “the religion of the millennium.” Vatican warned against the worship of nature as it is portrayed in Avatar, in which the people of Pandora worship mother goddess Eywa. The Vatican Spokesperson Federico Lombardi says in Avatar nature is no longer a creation of God to defend but a divinity to worship.
Category: Art & Expression, Ethics, Mother Earth, Pagan
