“When we lose sight of all for which we should be thankful, that vista can always be recovered through service to others.”

“Regress – material, intellectual and moral – can be as common as progress. If each new generation proves a poor custodian of the laws, behaviors, knowledge, and learning inherited from those now gone.” – Victor Davis Hanson.

“Literature and history become bulwarks from the cruel assaults of old age.” – Victor Davis Hanson

“I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.” – Thomas Jefferson

I don’t know where I picked up this quote, but the last sentence in it is about as accurate an explanation of the current environmentalism as could be found.

“What finally focused my attention on the aristocratic roots of environmentalism, however, was a chapter in Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class. Although the book is justly famous for coining “conspicuous consumption” and “conspicuous waste,” there is a lesser-known chapter entitled “Industrial Exemption” that perfectly describes the environmental zeitgeist. Veblen posed the question, why is it that people who are the greatest beneficiaries of industrial society are often the most passionate in condemning it? He provided a simple answer. People in the leisure class have become so accustomed to affluence as the natural state of things that they no longer feel compelled to embrace any further industrial progress.”

1. We are strictly forbidden to do so in Scripture
2. To do so is to usurp a task assigned to Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
3. We do not have adequate insight into the inner motives that drive others, thus rendering our judgment incomplete and often unjust.
4. Doing so leads to comparisons and contrasts that are harmful to the one making them.
5. Doing so creates a proud, arrogant spirit wherever it pertains.
6. Doing so divides between brethren thatcher than creating the spirit of unity commanded by the Word.
7. Doing so sets one up to be judged, as we are told we will be judged by the same standards we use in judging others.
8. Doing so fails to imitate the approach of Jesus Who abstained from judging while on earth.
9. Focusing on it provides fodder for the gossip mill, thus exacerbating the entire matter.
10. Doing so often causes us to look stupid as we are seen and heard judging others for the very things of which we are often most guilty.