The EPA was born on December 2, 1970 in an executive order by Republican President Richard Nixon. Congressional hearings followed. It was a time when rivers were catching fire regularly in the United States.
It was effectively murdered on July 29, 2025 by the MAGA Republican White House occupant*. Will the MAGA congress object—or lawsuits succeed in time to rescue it?
Under MAGA’S domain, EPA is no longer an Agency to Protect the Environment, but an Agency for Promoting Ecocide. And, of course, Matricide.
This latest version of EPA is sure to result in the killing of Mother Earth as we know her and future generations of children. Therefore it is a movement of Matricide, killing of our Mother for generations coming after us.
It will result in more global warming and more environmental hazards, polluted air, toxins, wildfires, hurricanes and more rape of Mother Earth. It promises more quick cash in the pockets of fossil fuel corporations that do not want to be bothered by laws that suggest the common good matters.
Or that capitalism and profits should have limits. It is the epitome of what Pope Francis called, “savage capitalism.” Its premise is that justice for future generations of plants, animals, and humans has no place at the table when decisions are made in boardrooms and on Wall Street that decide the future of our planet.
Will the Mothers, Fathers, Grandparents and Great Grandparents of America rise up and tell it like it is? And vote MAGA out?
It impacts not just Americans–what happens to Mother Earth in America or anyplace else on Earth affects all humans and all other-than-human creatures all around the planet.
Will religions rise up and shout about this evil killing going on? Will the American Catholic Bishops leave Opus Dei behind, stand up and shout out on behalf of Mother Earth as Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Sí instructed us to do? Will every Catholic parish in America do the same?
Saint and Doctor of the Church Hildegard of Bingen had this to say about protecting Mother Earth:
The Earth should not be injured!
The Earth should not be destroyed!
The earth is at the same time Mother.
She is the Mother of all that is natural,
Mother of all that is human.
She is the Mother of all,
for contained in her are the seeds of all.
In another prayer she identifies God, the “I am,” and Wisdom with Earth itself—which means MAGA’s killing of the Earth is deicide as well.
As I wrote about in my book on the Cosmic Christ 27 years ago, Gaia is being crucified. This time, it is not the Roman Empire that is nailing Jesus to the cross, but MAGA that is nailing Gaia to the cross.
Hildegard writes (Wisdom and God are speaking):
I am the one whose praise echoes on high.
I adorn all the earth.
I am the breeze that nurtures all things green.
I encourage blossoms to flourish with ripening fruits.
I am led by the spirit to feed the purest streams.
I am the rain coming from the dew
that causes the grasses to laugh with the joy of life
I call forth tears, the aroma of holy work
I am the yearning for good.
In the murder of the EPA, we are witnessing the mortal sin of ecocide—meaning a deadly choice by every congress person and citizen who does not stand up and object. And the media—will they object? Will the churches speak loud and clear? Will everyone with a conscience in our nation?
* Matthew Daly, “Trump administration moves to repeal EPA rule that allows climate regulation” Associated Press, on PBS NewsHour.
See Matthew Fox, Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint for Our Times: Unleashing Her Power in the 21st Century, pp. 33-44.
And Fox, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Global Renaissance, pp. 1-9, 144-148.
And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth.
And Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality.
And Fox, Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ.
Banner Image: Smog on the backed-up New Jersey Turnpike. Photo by BK on Flickr.
Queries for Contemplation
Do you agree with Hildegard that Mother Earth is the Mother of all that is natural and all that is human and the Mother of all? How does this translate into your politics?
Recommended Reading
Matthew Fox writes in Hildegard of Bingen about this amazing woman and what we can learn from her.
In an era when women were marginalized, Hildegard was an outspoken, controversial figure. Yet so visionary was her insight that she was sought out by kings, popes, abbots, and bishops for advice.
“This book gives strong, sterling, and unvarnished evidence that everything – everything – we ourselves become will affect what women after us may also become….This is a truly marvelous, useful, profound, and creative book.” ~~ Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism.
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Global Renaissance
In what may be considered the most comprehensive outline of the Christian paradigm shift of our Age, Matthew Fox eloquently foreshadows the manner in which the spirit of Christ resurrects in terms of the return to an earth-based mysticism, the expression of creativity, mystical sexuality, the respect due the young, the rebirth of effective forms of worship—all of these mirroring the ongoing blessings of Mother Earth and the recovery of Eros, the feminine aspect of the Divine.
“The eighth wonder of the world…convincing proof that our Western religious tradition does indeed have the depth of imagination to reinvent its faith.” — Brian Swimme, author of The Universe Story and Journey of the Universe.
“This book is a classic.” Thomas Berry, author of The Great Work and The Dream of the Earth.
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth
Fox’s spirituality weds the healing and liberation found in North American Creation Spirituality and in South American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of every religious and political persuasion to unite in a new vision through which we learn to honor the earth and the people who inhabit it as the gift of a good and just Creator.
“A watershed theological work that offers a common ground for religious seekers and activists of all stripes.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice.
“I am reading Liberating Gifts for the People of the Earth by Matt Fox. He is one that fills my heart and mind for new life in spite of so much that is violent in our world.” ~ Sister Dorothy Stang.
Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox lays out a whole new direction for Christianity—a direction that is in fact very ancient and very grounded in Jewish thinking (the fact that Jesus was a Jew is often neglected by Christian theology): the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an extended and deeply developed way.
“Original Blessing makes available to the Christian world and to the human community a radical cure for all dark and derogatory views of the natural world wherever these may have originated.” –Thomas Berry, author, The Dream of the Earth; The Great Work; co-author, The Universe Story
Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
Matthew Fox tells us that he had always shied away from using the term “Anti-Christ” because it was so often used to spread control and fear. However, given today’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables in this book employing the archetype for the cause of justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a moment, for examining the archetype of the Antichrist, it is now…Read this book with an open mind. Good and evil are real forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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