Modern Aztecs and Child Sacrifice

Mark Shea has a wonderfully wise post on the climate summit and the popular solution--that is, less of the populace--for climate change.

Somehow, the conventional wisdom of the modern era, both left and right, always ends in our need to ignore the teaching of the Church and murder as many innocent people as we can before we drop our current panic and move on to a new urgent reason for ignoring the Church and murdering more innocents. Forty years ago, we needed to kill innocents in order to avert the population bomb and the inevitable global famines of the 80s that we all remember not happening. Then it was global cooling. More recently, we needed to rush into Iraq to stop the WMDs that weren't there. Now we are being stampeded toward a global one Child policy (I'll see our ruling classes in hell first). Once again, I'm reminded of the curses of Leviticus for those (like our culture) who forsake the covenant:

And as for those of you that are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. 37 They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues; and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And those of you that are left shall pine away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity; and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away like them. (Lev 26)

The whole thing is well worth your time. Honestly, the perennial face of deep evil is the exact same, if you have but eyes to see it--the perversion of the human sacrifice of Christ, a sacrifice willingly made for those he loved. The Aztecs slaughtered thousands upon thousands in order to make sure the sun came up again. A more perfect analogy for the modern urge to kill the surplus population in order to preserve a level of quality of life for the right sorts could not be found. Well, except a certain formerly successful German political party.