The New Dark Age

There's no easy or magic way out of this new Dark Age. The only antidote is another Renaissance. Progressive Christians are moving in the right direction. Put the earth in your theology, prayers and actions, especially that. Platon spoke about the earth as the oldest of the gods, the grandmother of us all. Harvest electricity from the sun, not a nuclear or coal-powered plant.

Universities need shut down their departments of death that prepare students to manufacture nuclear bombs, pesticides, chemical or biological weapons and industrialized farming. Replace this abominable science with the science of solar power and life.

John Cobb, a process theologian and philosopher, was right in his denunciation of universities, speeding up the plans of rapacious banks and the industrial military complex, including petroleum corporations responsible for fuelling global warming.

As for colleges, they ought to put their students on the side of the earth and life. They must spread knowledge and enlightenment for a better and gentler world, one where humans and the natural world can coexist. They ought to do what all must do: Become solar, organic, and geocentric. Teach and practice biophilia. Teach the great Greek and Latin classic texts to inspire students with virtue. Only then, and if there's time, those students, tomorrow's leaders, will celebrate a Renaissance and pull the earth off the grasp of this new Dark Age.