The Emperor Has No Clothes
April 16, 2007
The Pope just wrote a book and criticizes Capitalisms treatment of the poor. Now having not read it, I cannot comment much. But the statement of itself is bothersome as no other society has given the poor more chances than America. Can someone translate in German what we have on our front door. “Give me your poor and huddled masses”.
But really I am not criticising his take on the system we make our money by.
I am more concerned that he chose to write about quite frankly a bunch of same ole bull shit, when his churches credability is in his question. Do we sweep La Mahoney’s coverup, or the one he left behind in his previous Diocese? Do we forget that from I heard that when the Pope was just a Cardinal he was the liason between the previous Papacy and the Mahoney?
We are living in a time where Leadership and Moral Authority is greatly missing in America. We have aways been the Authority. And the Church particularily the Catholic church has led the way in leading with Moral Certainty while accepting our human frailties.
In todays, world where a Presidents indescresions can be caught on tape and broadcast across the world, the need for certainty is at an all time crisis level. Unfortunately, the Pope has just lost some street cred over here across the Pond.
Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam
On the book:Complementary lectures delivered in May 2004 and the lecturers’ letters of response to one another make up a small, potent book on the topic that Bruce Bawer’s startling While Europe Slept (2006) gives electrifying currency: the decline and all-too-possible fall of European culture to the radical Islam that Mary Habeck in Knowing the Enemy (2006) calls “jihadism.” Pera, a philosopher of science who has become president of the Italian senate, dissects political correctness and the condition of which it is a symptom, cultural relativism. Ratzinger, who a year later became Pope Benedict XVI, summarizes Europe’s Christian heritage with breathtaking concision and historical mastery. Both men see Europe today in a crisis of identity that has made it largely unable and unwilling to defend its culture against intransigent Islam, and both call for revivifying Christian identity. In his letter, Pera advocates nondenominational Christianity as the basis of a revitalized Europe; in his, Ratzinger propounds the conditions for a pan-European Christian civil religion such as Pera outlines. An engrossing, enlightening, extremely timely discussion. Ray Olson
…Europe is dying. We know that birthrates in most European countries are near to 1. That means for every two people, one is produced since birth rates measure births from women. If one only measures the birth-rates of indigenous Europeans, not recent immigrants, they will find that in fact the number is closer to .25, that is for every four European Christian women only 1 will have a child……
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