Greenpeace?
ShortRound | 12.22.06 - 3:28 pm | #

Isn't it odd that German liberals are becoming more like good guys while so many American liberals are looking more like Nazis?

Very strange.
Mark S. (not for Shea) | 12.22.06 - 3:38 pm | #

" Greenpeace?
ShortRound "

Yeah, one more stereotype bites the dust. 'Environmentalist' is not synonymous with 'mad scientist.'
Pavel Chichikov | Homepage | 12.22.06 - 4:02 pm | #

The Germans in greater part have learned some bitter lessons from the Nazi period. I remember when the German supreme court years ago threw out the abortion law passed by the Social Democrats because it was too liberal and conflicted with the post-war German constitution (Grundgesetz). Compared to our abortion free-for-all here thanks to the Supremes, the German abortion law is positively conservative.
Arnold | 12.22.06 - 4:40 pm | #

There is something afoot- I am finding more and more books and sources that are crossing over the ideological lines- unconsciously discovering what our Catholic social doctrine lays out so comprehensively. All of these social concerns are interrelated- if you love human life, you will love those lives from the moment of their existence- and you will care about the economics, the environment, and the need for peace. The best resource for seeing these connections is the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, and two books that seem to make some of these connections are Crunchy Cons and Dominion- both written by self-described religious conservatives- and deal with the environment and animal rights and dignity- without the neo-pagan baggage.

I am trying to make in-roads in the liberal community by being a pro-life Democrat and a pro-nuclear power environmentalist- stressing the common good over ideological partisanship.
timothy shipe | 12.22.06 - 4:51 pm | #

Praise be to God.

The separation between ecological concerns and reverence for the human person has to be one of the most distressing phenomena of this era. We need to look particularly closely at the profanation of what God has created that is implied in so much of the technocratic mind-set (cf. C.S. Lewis' Abolition of Man).

Mark, thank you for bringing us this piece of wonderful news.

Merry Christmas!
current lector | 12.22.06 - 9:02 pm | #

Good News indeed! At least the Germans have learnt from the past - unlike the rest of the world it seems.

The best resource for seeing these connections is the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church

Right on, Timothy!
Louise | Homepage | 12.22.06 - 10:56 pm | #

Now, if only these German Greenpeace members could infect the rest of the organization with their good common sense, then we'll get somewhere with the "shattering stereotypes" business.
JonathanR. | 12.29.06 - 2:32 am | #