How long can deficit spending last? There is a formula. If -$(Deficit spending) is less than PEI (Production Efficiency Increase), it can go on, forever. Here’s how it works: Let’s say that four people working a 100 acre field with...
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Bossy people are readily corruptible.
Bossy people find what passes for happiness when they can order others around. As a result, governments end up being run by bossy people. Bossy people are readily corruptible. Bossy people think there are two...
Loving our enemies begins by understanding how much they hate us.
One of Scripture’s hardest passages is Today’s Reading. In Mt 5: 43-48: Jesus said to his disciples: “You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I...
Christian unity: “Now is the day of salvation”.
Until the 1920s and 30s, Mainline Protestant groups agreed with the Roman Catholic Church. All taught that birth control and abortion were wrong. In the “Roaring Twenties”, Protestants began to abandon that position. By the...
Cafeteria Christians pick and choose the Scriptures they believe.
Cafeteria Christians pick and choose the Scriptures they believe. Most schismatics love parts of this week's Sunday Reading: 2 Gal 2:16, 19-21 "Brothers and sisters, We who know that a person is not justified by...
How to obey “The Least Commandments”? Receive the Sacraments.
Catholic Fundamentalism rejoices! Yesterday, we saw The Church’s daily reading that included Mt. 5:19. It referred to “The Least Commandments” that would be obeyed by those who would be “great in Heaven”. We learned to...
Are schismatics “least in the Kingdom of Heaven”?
Today’s Gospel reading from Mt. 5:17-19 applies to the “lesser commandments”. Those who obey the “least of the commandments” are the greatest in Heaven: Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not think that I have...
French Huguenots in America: mutiny, murder, and cannibalism.
Many believe that some of America’s earliest Protestant settlers were the Pilgrims, in 1620. French Protestants, known as Huguenots, settled on the South-east coast of the United States long before that. They provide a perfectly...
The origins of the word “protestant”.
Few think much about: The origins of the word “protestant”. It has in many minds, a positive meaning. It is associated with those who care enough to “protest”. Since we usually think of protests as...
An Old Testament Prophet foretells The Catholic Church.
Ex. 34:11-161 (The Prophet Ezekiel is a perfect example of: An Old Testament Prophet foretells The Catholic Church.) “Thus says the Lord GOD: I myself will look after and tend my sheep. (Jesus, God Himself,...