The Garden of Eden, Unknown German master; 1410

THE WORD “diversity” has been corrupted. It’s almost impossible to use the word today without conjuring something that is opposed to diversity, which stands for variety and multiplicity. “Diversity” to egalitarians is not diversity but its opposite: an imposed homogeneity and stifling of differences.

It’s a shame because “diversity” is a good word. All of the created order is diverse. God loves variety and differences. He could have made all people the same, but he did not. He deliberately created differences. Therefore difference must be good. There could be no other way, given the imperfections and limitations of creatures, for God to express divine goodness. St. Thomas Aquinas explains this:

[T]he multiplicity and distinction existing among things were devised by the divine intellect and were carried out in the real order so that the divine goodness might be mirrored by created things in variety, and that different things might participate in divine goodness in varying degrees. Thus, the very order existing among diverse things issues in a certain beauty, which should call to mind the divine wisdom.

[Aquinas’s Shorter Summa, Chapt. 103; Sophia Press, 1993]

This world is a celebration of diversity.

— Comments —

Funky Ph.d. writes:

This seems like a good spot for a word from one of our favorite poets, Gerard Manley Hopkins:

Glory be to God for dappled things —
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced — fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.

MJ writes:

We all know that diversity is just a tool to destroy the institutions of Traditionalist 1.0 America.  For example, the Boy Scouts had to be diverse and accept open homosexuals.   The military has long been under attack to diversify its ranks with females in combat arms units and large numbers of unqualified nincompoop blacks in the officer corps.  (I could tell you stories from my personal experience.)  I predict that in the not so distant future churches, if they wish to maintain their tax exempt status, will soon have to diversify and accept homosexual unions as sacramental marriages.   And yet, the Left is totally silent about the appalling lack of diversity in our nearly all-black basketball and football teams, or the fact that Hollywood is run almost exclusively by white male Jews, who comprise less than 1% of the population. That is why, whenever those around me are praising the glorious effects of diversity, I, an outspoken semi-Semite, dutiful son of a Jewish mother, bring up this Jewish control of Hollywood, and wax eloquently of how much better our entertainment industry would be if Tinseltown were to produce movies and shows that were to reflect the lives and likes of all of America, and not just those of the secular white progressive left.

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