Eureka Moment

I was checking the evil empire (Facebook, although Google is far more evil) and saw the quote below by a local priest and experienced a moment of enlightenment.  He said, in part: 

“I was musing on the mentality of our country at the moment that, ‘You are not valuable unless people around you say you are valuable.’ Abortion is the lived expression of this idea. It is the ‘you have no value until I say’ put into action... HUMANS cannot convey existential worth. That only comes from God. We either recognize it or fail. [U.S. society is failing]."

Wow, that’s a key that unlocks a few locks in a post-Christian society. 

It helps explain the “sky is blue” slogan “Black Lives Matter”, which I'd considered either a thought-terminating cliche or a vacuous truth in service of the political - but could it also mean what it says and be a plea by blacks to be seen as valuable by other humans? (Although in the spirit of both/and, it’s also brilliant slogan because it can politically imply a huge swath from police reform to reparations to Marxism.) 

Fr.’s post also explains weird frequencies in pop culture like how on the TV series “Hannah” the despair the grown characters feel at not be wanted by their mothers, or given up by them, is a decent expression of human idolatry in a world without consciousness of God.