Adam Smith and Benedict XVI. From the religion and economics department, Spengler explains Cardinal Ratzinger’s 1985 thesis that an unethical economy destroys itself.
Ethics founded on religion are the precondition for long-term economic success, if for no other reason than economies depend on family formation. If the present economic crisis helps the West to reflect on its moral weakness, the cost well may be worth it.
Unimaginativity. Reverent Stephen Coulter visited the West Bank and discovered that modern-day Bethlehem is not an idyllic scene of shepherds and babes and peace and joy. “O Little Town of Bethlehem” cannot be sung in such circumstances. Cranmer reports:
So he has deleted the carol from Christmas worship in the Dorset parish of Blandford Forum on the grounds that the words were “too far removed from life in Bethlehem’ and no longer ‘represent the modern-day reality of the war-torn city.”
Memo to Rev. Coulter: The Christmas Story is not about the town, and the hope of Christmas is not that Bethlehem will be preserved as a liturgical theme park. Did you also notice that the star is no longer there?
Military wisdom. “Don’t draw fire; it irritates the people around you.” (via BurtonBlog)
Finally, a coherent argument for environmentalism. From Are We Lumberjacks, a site with many good diversions.
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To hell with trees, hug a keg!
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