Opus 2025-429: In the Image of Bug

This morning, my mind went to a meme that I saw attacking artificial sweeteners.  It showed a picture of something which I couldn’t identify with a group of bugs, walking around it and not touching it.  The written portion pointed out that ants and bees, and a long list of other creatures would not touch this particular artificial sweetener.  I think their point was because the ants didn’t eat it, we probably shouldn’t put it in our bodies.

I’m sure that if I could think for a while, I could come up with all kinds of things that I might eat that ant wouldn’t.  Conversely, I vaguely in the back of my mind, remember watching a video of a group of ants, hauling the carcass of another dead bug towards their tunnels.  Am I supposed to take that picture as suggesting I need to eat more dead bugs that I find laying on the ground?

How often do we see things that are represented as facts and connected to other facts and acting like they actually had something to do with each other?  I think it’s an overwhelming habit we have.  We see it in the climate change advocates.  Drought is a result of climate change.  Floods are result of climate change.  Heat waves are the result of climate change.  Blizzards are a result of climate change.  What’s key here is they change their terminology from global warming, and global cooling to climate change.  I remember a line that I believe Dick Cheney threw out one time after describing dramatically this climate change and saying it’s called “winter”.

Don’t get too excited about all of the people telling you that everything is going to kill you.  My understanding is we’re going to die eventually anyway.  The side effects of the medicine they want you to take might be more serious than the side effects of your artificial sweetener.  We can’t get the data.  We just have to use the common sense that was built into our bodies.

Which brings me to my point.  We are created in the image of God, not in the image of bug.  We are certainly not created in the image of contemporary science.  Bugs don’t care what we think, they just want to bite us.  Science doesn’t care much about us as long as they get paid for coming up with the opinions that they are told to express.  Our God gave us free will and we are free to make choices based on what our minds and the Holy Spirit tell us is right.

Make sure you are channeling the right image.

homo unius libri