Of Butterflies and Bigots (eBook, ePUB)
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"I find among the poems of Schiller no mention of the caterpillar." So wrote the poet Ogden Nash. Insect larvae are not the only creatures that have been disregarded. The same can be said for children. Bigots, as we will see, create bigots who go on to disregard their own children, creating even more bigots. We have a vicious circle. It takes complete nurturing to see the small. Schiller did write, "Slowly the butterfly floats, poised on ambiguous wing." If the insect is regarded, it is as an adult. We would need to put our professional pride in our pocket, but perhaps our very, very distantly...
"I find among the poems of Schiller no mention of the caterpillar." So wrote the poet Ogden Nash. Insect larvae are not the only creatures that have been disregarded. The same can be said for children. Bigots, as we will see, create bigots who go on to disregard their own children, creating even more bigots. We have a vicious circle. It takes complete nurturing to see the small. Schiller did write, "Slowly the butterfly floats, poised on ambiguous wing." If the insect is regarded, it is as an adult. We would need to put our professional pride in our pocket, but perhaps our very, very distantly related cousin, the "the repulsive and sinister form of the caterpillar" as the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche described it or that Child in the manger can bring us to our senses. If we can set aside our biases there is deep wisdom to be found in the evolutionary strategy of the caterpillar and in the divine strategy of the Incarnation, as we will see.
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