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M Z's avatar

Here is a quote from Fr Teilhard which I find troubling.

What fundamental attitude…should the advancing wing of humanity take to fixed or definitely unprogressive ethnical groups? The earth is a closed and limited surface. To what extent should it tolerate, racially or nationally, areas of lesser activity? More generally still, how should we judge the efforts we lavish in all kinds of hospitals on saving what is so often no more than one of life’s rejects?…To what extent should not the development of the strong…take precedence over the preservation of the weak?

Here is my source:

https://religiondispatches.org/pierre-teilhard-de-chardins-legacy-of-eugenics-and-racism-cant-be-ignored/

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Aidan T's avatar

Teilhard was a fraud and a spoofer. He lived at a time when Catholics were nervous about how to reconcile the new facts about evolution with Christianity, and he appeared to someone who could do this. I don't think he understood either very well, and had a massive ego to boot. I don't think that there is anything useful in his writings.

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