I'm glad that you wrote about this, because none of my faithful Catholic friends have much of an idea what to do about the hijacking of the month of June, and the rainbow. Will say it's hard for me to see the mass produced cheap-dye rainbows and not want to puke. What would be analogous? Claiming the sun as an emblem of, say, abortion? (Not that it's been done.)
Rainbow decor always was the domain of little girls, so seeing it splashed around on adults and city streets (the city I live in has draped rainbow flags from street lights downtown) seems like a sign of infantile regression of what are supposed to be adults. This is hard. And now they're polluting the month of June, where I look forward to wildflowers and towering cumulus, planting and being outdoors most of the day.
So, I don't have any better ideas than what you suggest here, active refusal to allow these things to be smeared with disgusting grime. I'll try.
Love this! I’ve always loved colorful items and rainbow-themed clothing etc so I have struggled with the pride adoption. This has helped me tremendously. Read “The Abolition of Man” many years ago but will pick it up again!
I seem to recall that (a few years back now) the chap who runs some kind of biblical-theme-park decided to project a big rainbow over a replica Noah’s Ark. This displeased some folks, but he correctly stated that “ it was our symbol first” or words to that effect.
I venture to risk the patience of our host, the good doctor, by linking another of my own which encourages us to read more C.S. Lewis. I'll plead only that it undergirds his point above!
Rainbow is just fine in our world! I see it for what it is; beautiful colors and a gift from God. As for symbols of mankind’s current nuttiness, well I’ve just had lots and lots of neatness placed into my shopping habits - I have less to choose from but that makes life MUCH easier. 😉
I'm glad that you wrote about this, because none of my faithful Catholic friends have much of an idea what to do about the hijacking of the month of June, and the rainbow. Will say it's hard for me to see the mass produced cheap-dye rainbows and not want to puke. What would be analogous? Claiming the sun as an emblem of, say, abortion? (Not that it's been done.)
Rainbow decor always was the domain of little girls, so seeing it splashed around on adults and city streets (the city I live in has draped rainbow flags from street lights downtown) seems like a sign of infantile regression of what are supposed to be adults. This is hard. And now they're polluting the month of June, where I look forward to wildflowers and towering cumulus, planting and being outdoors most of the day.
So, I don't have any better ideas than what you suggest here, active refusal to allow these things to be smeared with disgusting grime. I'll try.
Love this! I’ve always loved colorful items and rainbow-themed clothing etc so I have struggled with the pride adoption. This has helped me tremendously. Read “The Abolition of Man” many years ago but will pick it up again!
I seem to recall that (a few years back now) the chap who runs some kind of biblical-theme-park decided to project a big rainbow over a replica Noah’s Ark. This displeased some folks, but he correctly stated that “ it was our symbol first” or words to that effect.
Never again shall the World be destroyed by deluge ... He is not a man, that He could lie ... This is the Promise of the rainbow ( pre-corruption)
Bingo! Lewis is our guide for today! That was exactly how I began my post on Monday.
https://deeplevity.substack.com/p/transposition
Just read it, absolutely fantastic, thank you! Lewis really is the best…
Ps I hope to have more on dryads and naiads very soon!
I shall await it with giddy anticipation!
Crazy how on point he was with Abolition of Man and That Hideous Strength!
Indeed.
I venture to risk the patience of our host, the good doctor, by linking another of my own which encourages us to read more C.S. Lewis. I'll plead only that it undergirds his point above!
https://deeplevity.substack.com/p/read-more-cs-lewis
“Read more Lewis” is basically the title and substance of everything I’d want to say…
Rainbow is just fine in our world! I see it for what it is; beautiful colors and a gift from God. As for symbols of mankind’s current nuttiness, well I’ve just had lots and lots of neatness placed into my shopping habits - I have less to choose from but that makes life MUCH easier. 😉
Thanks for this, the wake-up call from the Objective Room is where a lot of people are today. Great stuff
Excellent piece Sir! Have read CS Lewis since childhood.
Lewis is fantastic and classic...need to re-read!!
Hopefully it’s ok to plug my good friend’s tome here (who awakened me to the dangers of statism two decades ago, and called out the Covid fraud almost immediately... https://www.ezrainstitute.com/resource-library/articles/covid-calamity-when-the-cure-is-worse-than-the-disease/
Book. https://ezrapress.ca/products/the-mission-of-god.
Love cheerful rainbows and also share them with grandchildren and Leprechauns
Tired of the high jacking by the fringes