This is what the ghoul that @DouthatNYT interviewed retweeted in response to giving such an embarrassing reply to his question. It's not that @noor_siddiqui_ and her ilk don't understand what Douthat was conveying through the poem, it's that they have open contempt for it. They have contempt for the transcendent nature of life, the beauty of the intimacies that creates it, and the presence of God within it. They have contempt for the spiritual chill that their practices bring to everyone who observes them. To call these people soulless feels somehow insufficient. If they were merely empty, it would be pitiable. These are ravenous monsters who seek to consume the fundamental way by which our species propagates itself - by which two people connect in the deepest way to create new life - and grind it through an Silicon Valley grindset optimization machine that even Andrew Niccol would have said was too dystopian for film. They are not just empty, they are destroyers, and they must be stopped.