This flies by quickly so you may want to keep your mouse handy to hit pause. For best viewing enlarge to full screen. Grab a cuppa and take a look into the past and your possible future....
I hate to get into this again, but I hate even more to see people misled. So, two cents:
The current economic disaster is not the fault of any individual, any political party, or any single social group. On the contrary, it is due to a general failing on the part of everyone, from politicians and lobbyists and CEO's at the one extreme to the struggling blue collar laborers at the other. Everyone got greedy (or more correctly, continued to be greedy), and now someone has to get burned. What is so hard for me to comprehend is that this is history: it is not the first time. The "Great Depression" of the 1920's and 30's followed exactly the same script: expansion of credit leading to a housing balloon leading to collapse of the economy. I cannot help but be reminded of the "wheel of fortune" Holy Card that was popular in the late 14th and early 15th centuries.
This is not an individual sin, but rather a general moral failure that permeates our culture -- as our Holy Father has stated repeatedly. There is an old saying, "you can't legislate morality". It never has worked before (think prohibition, prostitution, abortion, speeding, etc. ad inf.), and it cannot work this time. The effective solution does not lie within the political realm.
But there is a solution, and it is a solution known to every Catholic. Morality changes when there is a (religious) conversion -- and not before. If we wish to avoid periodic economic collapses, we must do what Jesus told us to do: "teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you...." Evangelism, and evangelism alone, is the only force that will get us out of this mess and others.
Accept responsibility, repent, confess, do penance = evangelize.
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This was a pretty good video! Too bad it went by so quickly. It was hard to see some of the things he showed screen shots of.
Thanks for sharing this.
adrienne --
I hate to get into this again, but I hate even more to see people misled. So, two cents:
The current economic disaster is not the fault of any individual, any political party, or any single social group. On the contrary, it is due to a general failing on the part of everyone, from politicians and lobbyists and CEO's at the one extreme to the struggling blue collar laborers at the other. Everyone got greedy (or more correctly, continued to be greedy), and now someone has to get burned. What is so hard for me to comprehend is that this is history: it is not the first time. The "Great Depression" of the 1920's and 30's followed exactly the same script: expansion of credit leading to a housing balloon leading to collapse of the economy. I cannot help but be reminded of the "wheel of fortune" Holy Card that was popular in the late 14th and early 15th centuries.
This is not an individual sin, but rather a general moral failure that permeates our culture -- as our Holy Father has stated repeatedly. There is an old saying, "you can't legislate morality". It never has worked before (think prohibition, prostitution, abortion, speeding, etc. ad inf.), and it cannot work this time. The effective solution does not lie within the political realm.
But there is a solution, and it is a solution known to every Catholic. Morality changes when there is a (religious) conversion -- and not before. If we wish to avoid periodic economic collapses, we must do what Jesus told us to do: "teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you...." Evangelism, and evangelism alone, is the only force that will get us out of this mess and others.
Accept responsibility, repent, confess, do penance = evangelize.
I think this is relevant and helpful:
http://www.zenit.org/article-23930?l=english
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