A quote from Brendan O’Neill on Spiked Online, 28 December 2005

Popes used to talk about good and evil and the threat posed by sin to the soul of Mankind; now the Pope talks about flu and al-Qaeda and the threat posed by pollution to the health of the planet. He doesn’t evoke the fear of God but fear of the future, trying to find common ground through the contemporary pieties of environmentalism where old-world Christian piety no longer cuts it.