Professional Prophets of Doom: honest mistakes or lying for money?
Experts frequently make predictions about how bad things are going to be. When looking at some of the predictions listed below many people draw one conclusion: Some expert predictions would have correctly been called “idiotic” in ages prone to apply labels to intellectual abilities. Other predictions, slightly less inane, are, in hindsight, actually moronic. Read […]
When governments prop up too many bubbles, collapses are bigger.
Catholic Fundamentalism sometimes looks at various bubbles in the economy. They’re easy to spot. Their collapse is foretold by The Book of Revelation describing parts of Babylon going bust. There is an Education Bubble. Many public school districts pay upwards of $20,000.00 per student per year. When we realize that if a good teacher rented […]
Higher education is neither.
A few generations ago, 5% of the graduating high school seniors went to college. The, graduating seniors were taught far better than those today. High school graduates knew more and had higher skills in math, reading, history, and geography than recent generations of college graduates. One college graduate out of every twenty Americans provided the […]
Race to the bottom.
If everyone is falling, how fast are we, ourselves falling? We can’t tell without an unchanging, permanent, unmoving point by which we can judge our direction and speed. Today, for instance, a few days after the U.S. Federal Reserve printed more money, the Euro went up in value. The Euro had not gotten any stronger. […]
To see the future, look to truth.
“Pride goeth before a fall.” is a truthful description of reality. We see the truth of such proverbs by inserting names and happenings. For instance, we may say “John Corzine’s pride was such that it prompted him to take 1.6 billion dollars from depositors. He was caught, and fell.” To see the future, look to […]
An Act of War
Yesterday, on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, four United States employees at our Libyan Embassy were killed by a mob of Moslems. Among the dead was our Ambassador to Libya. He was suffocated. This is an act of war by the Brotherhoods of Moslems whom our President has […]
Modernism destroys.
Most of us are convinced that it’s important to be modern and up-to-date. Those who want us to destroy our lives and souls encourage us to forget our past and “get with what’s happening”. As nations, we’ve done that. The results are obvious: modernism destroys. Hundreds of millions of unborn babies have been killed by […]
One kind of person and two kinds of people.
Some people obey the commands to love God and neighbor. Others, won’t. Some people think, speak, and act as if they want to go to Heaven. Others, won’t. It easy to conclude that there are two kinds of people. Catholic Fundamentalism wants to recognize the primacy of free will over determinism, and suggests: “There is […]
Are giant, mega-churches good or bad?
America has long been a hotbed of fracturing and consolidating. At any given time, dozens companies are becoming conglomerates while existing conglomerates are spinning off subsidiaries. In religion, America has one giant denomination, the Roman Catholic Church. Methodists, Presbyterians, and the other “mainline” denominations are disappearing before our eyes. Many survive on endowments accumulated in […]
We’re crazy not to move to Texas.
Big bubble bursting! Rejoice and be glad: There is one state where elected officials care more about people than political structures. Texas colleges now offer college degrees for $10,000.00. That’s an entire degree, not just one semester, for ten thousand dollars. Assume that a company with a hundred employees moves to Texas. Maybe twenty of […]