Mark Steyn on Logic

In today's Chicago Sun Times Mark Steyn does an interesting object lesson about where we are headed by comparing the thoughts of what he calls Four Jills in a Jeep. Two are of particular interest to me. He contrasts the first elderly female to blow herself up in the cause of Jihad (Fatma An-Najar) who was until she blew herself to pieces in Jebaliya was a 64 year old grandmother with 41 grandchildren and the new presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of America,Katharine Jefferts Schori, who sniffed to a national interviewer that Episcopalians are too well educated to have children. Her interviewer asked, somewhat incredulously whether, in Steyn's characterization whether they wanted to become like the Shakers, to which she replied "We encourage people to pay attention to the stewardship of the earth and not use more than their portion." Evidently, she has bought into the idea that human beings in God's creation are a problem. She also seems to have missed the parts in the bible that discuss God's bounty. In the long term that is both lousy theology and lousy stewardship.

It is an interesting contrast from my parent's generation who thought it part of their social responsibility to produce children. (I had three sibings). I am not sure what would possess the new bishop to jump on the side of political correctness. It does not seem like much of a way to enlarge her denomination.

The other two are some performing bimbo, named Scarlett Johansson, who in the name of current social theory has herself tested for HIV every six months and Condoleezza Rice, who makes an argument for democratic aspirations in the middle east. Steyn's point is to contrast the long term effects of especially the first three Jills. Steyn's article is worth a read. It seems in her first few months that Bishop Schori's comments are not.