“I don’t see for the life of me,” Peterson commented, “what the Catholic Church has to do with the ‘climate crisis… Just the formulation is wrong; the priority is wrong; you save the world one person at a time.” He stressed the more important function of the leader of the Catholic Church as “Saving souls…not by worshipping Gaia.”
Peterson also criticized Francis for wanting to be relevant. But the pope’s notion of relevance appears to be conforming to the ways of the secular world. In John 17:9, we read Christ’s words: “not for the world do I pray.” In the Greek language, there are two distinct words for the “world.” One is gaia, which refers to the world that God created, the world that, according to Genesis, is “good.” The second word is aion, which refers to the era or the age. This is the man-made, secular world. Given the priority that Francis assigns to the climate crisis and his concerns about being relevant, one must ask whether he is not worshipping gaia as much as he is worshipping aion.
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