On Saturday, a 25-year-old man blew himself up outside a fertility clinic, but it became a minor footnote in the news cycle by Monday morning:
For those who haven't forgotten about this wanton act of destruction, let's talk about the growing movement of people who genuinely think that human beings are a curse to the planet and must be exterminated in order to set things right.
Bartkus allegedly posted plans about how he would carry out the attack. 👇
Tomorrow morning I will finally be gone. Will be mixing sulfuric and formic acid in a bucket in my car, and it should produce 10,000+ PPM within a minute or two.
The top comment on this suicide forum was not, "That is absolutely insane, your life is worth so much more than you think, please don't kill yourself."
It was "I hope it goes smoothly."
In his audio manifesto, Bartkus talks at length about the "right to die" and the absurdity of life. He blames parents for causing death by "making you exist in the first place."
By his logic, parents like this are the most evil entities in the universe:
Just last week, The New Yorker published a piece about the growing anti-natalist movement, which sees itself as liberating humanity by ... killing humanity.
This kind of nihilist extinctionism didn't spring out of a vacuum. It's the end result of creating "men without chests" over the past two centuries of Western civilization.
In the mid-1700s, French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau promoted the idea of the "Noble Savage," or that primitive people are morally better than those who are educated/civilized.
If you are a Westerner, you've been taught this your entire life. It's everywhere, even in children's films.
When combined with the teachings of intellectuals like Thomas Malthus, who argued (in 1798) that human populations would soon surpass their food supplies, and Charles Darwin, who taught that mankind could have evolved from animals without divine intervention, potent mixes of ideologies were brewed that underpinned many of the violent wars and genocides of the 20th century.
Following WW2, those ideologies shifted into different, but similar, movements involving causes such as climate, abortion, and "decolonization" that masqueraded as campaigns for environmentalism and human rights.
Climate cultists believe that humanity is a curse to the planet that must be stopped by reducing the number of people. The easiest way to do this is cut people's access to affordable energy, which kills two birds with one stone by eliminating current and potential humans while reducing manmade emissions.
Reducing your "carbon footprint" is preached everywhere. We are encouraged to drastically order our lives around this cult.
You cannot go a single day in Western nations without feeling the narrative being pushed on you:
Children are bad
Wanting to have kids is evil
There are too many people
The earth is burning
Abortion has been a handy ally along the way toward these anti-human goals. Most people want abortion for convenience, but some, like Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, want to use it as a tool to control human populations.
Whether or not people understand how this anti-human ideology has influenced their thinking, it has affected most Westerners to the point where it's engrained to some degree within them (I am talking to you, dear reader).
Consider chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall, someone we all learned about growing up - and many people still idolize. Consider how similar her beliefs regarding population sound to Bartkus:
Other leftist movements also have this in their DNA. The push to "decolonize" and "decenter whiteness" (by which they ultimately mean "destroy Christian influence") is rooted in anti-human thinking.
They pretend to care about human value and rights, but they exist to overwhelm systems, erode equality and personal liberties, and establish the State as god.
America's weird "race" wars have always been, at their core, about pro-human vs. anti-human ideology.
Bartkus took the threads of these interwoven movements - from Darwinian eugenics to Marxist collectivism to Enlightenment secularism to BLM and Palestinian protests and and transgenderism and abortion and climate activism - and concluded the obvious:
Humans are bad and should not exist.
There are millions of young people who are disillusioned with everything and are looking for hope. Secularism has failed them. The Disney motto of "follow your heart" has failed. The flood of cheap products from China isn't filling the emptiness in their hearts anymore.
Tell me, when was the last time you heard something like this outside of church? 👇
God created man in his own image; he created him in the image of God;
he created them male and female.God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.
Humans are made in God's image. We are to fill and rule the earth.
This was so important that it's included in the first chapter of the first book of the Bible.
It's repeated again to Noah:
Whoever sheds human blood, by humans his blood will be shed, for God made humans in his image.
But you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it.
Bartkus understood that something is wrong with humanity. His suicide testifies that the human race is lost and the world is screwed up.
But he rejected the message that could have saved him: That we have a Creator who loves us and chose to redeem us in spite of our evil.
Do you know that? Do you know your value?
Even the hairs of your head have all been counted. So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Don't be like the human-hating nihilists who think there is no meaning. Don't blow yourself up because you think people are irredeemable. Don't be part of Satan's plan to kill and destroy.
God is calling out to each of us. He is not far from you. There is absolutely nothing in your past that could prevent you from being saved. All your mistakes? Those have been wiped out. You are debt free.
Death is not the end, nor the ultimatum.
All you have to do is believe.
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