Tilting at Windmills

One definition of tilt is "to rush at or charge", as in a joust between two knights.  Tilting at windmills is an idiom derived from the novel Don Quixote.  Don Quixote was insane.  He thought himself  a chivalrous knight and at one point in the novel was going to battle 30 to 40 ferocious giants.  The giants were actually windmills.  Tilting at windmills means to attack imaginary enemies.  We live in a world where insane leaders, thinking themselves noble and chivalrous, fight an imaginary enemy with windmills.  One hundred years from now there could be the idiom Tilting at climate change which will mean imbeciles that destroyed a culture battling an imaginary carbon dragon.

We have a de facto Muslim and socialist/statist in the White House and a Gaia(ist) and socialist in the Vatican.  Barack Obama favors Islam over Christianity and big government over liberty.  Pope Francis is an anti-capitalist and favors governments controlling wealth and equitably distributing it.  The Pope also personifies the earth:

“ [She] is protesting for the wrong that we are doing to her, because of the irresponsible use and abuse of the goods that God has placed on her. We have grown up thinking that we were her owners and dominators, authorised to loot her. The violence that exists in the human heart, wounded by sin, is also manifest in the symptoms of illness that we see in the Earth, the water, the air and in living things.”

The above paragraph is an extract from the draft encyclical the Pope is to present shortly calling for the world to take manmade climate change seriously and to take immediate steps to control carbon dioxide emissions.  The words sound more like the writing of a planet worshiper, a follower of Gaia theory, than the words of a devout Catholic.  Is extracting the fossil fuels, that God made, from the earth "looting" the planet.  The Pope is essentially saying that Man is raping a feminine Earth, and not just any man but western, capitalist white men.  With all the crap that's blamed on white men, it's no wonder that Bruce Jenner wanted to become Caitlin.

The manifest symptoms of illness in the environment the Pope sees are not caused by capitalism.  Actually, some of the most polluted areas on the planet are in Russia, China, India, the Middle East, Africa, former Soviet bloc countries, and South America.  And the cleanest places on the planet are in free, modern industrialized countries that practice the least encumbered capitalism - America, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, Japan.  Pope Francis should discern that fact, but it's hard for him to see anything through that tiny slit of his helmet he's donned to go fight an imaginary dragon.