God Loves Diversity
August 17, 2022
IF GOD preferred uniformity to variety, then why did He create so much thrilling diversity? He created true diversity, not the cultish, artificial “diversity” we hear about all the time.
Scientists can spend entire careers studying a single species of insects or plants.
“Estimates of the total number of insect species, or those within specific orders, often vary considerably. Globally, averages of these estimates suggest there are around 1.5 million beetle species and 5.5 million insect species, with about 1 million insect species currently found and described.” (Source)
So many different insects inhabit the world that many haven’t even been studied and named.
Do birds try to be other birds? They may eat other birds or parasitically feed on their eggs, but they don’t strive to become what they are not and no scientist has observed — ever — a fish morphing into a bird. Except when they want each other for food, animals mostly leave each other alone.
They are themselves: Humming, feeding, flying, running, jumping — an endless and marvelous diversity of life. The only effect man has had on all this enchanting diversity is to reduce it. But nature reviles him. And its diversity persists.
Modern “diversity” is a messianic, religious cult. Differences among human beings, whether between races or individuals, are not inherently evil. As St. Thomas Aquinas explained, God made all of nature various and diverse:
[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]
God loves true diversity, not phony, man-made uniformity. God loves unity amid variety. Diversity is beautiful and good. The cult of equality seeks to obliterate differences and make everyone the same, creating a dull, ugly and dispiriting world.
