Friday, January 02, 2009
"What We Really Need is a Moral Bail Out"
I choose neutrality on the pro-life issue; however, I do think the Deacon is on to something here...
At the Catholic.org website, Deacon Keith Fournier writes:
"I suggest that the financial collapse is simply the sordid fruit of the greed and the idolatry which has elevated the accumulation of stuff over persons to the level of something to actually be emulated - and dragged us all down with the indices. This practical materialism is a cancer,caused by a fundamental loss of basic values such as a respect for all human life, no matter how old or young, large or small. It has also given rise to a counterfeit set of purported 'values' which place consumption over care and ultimately eat away at true and authentic human freedom, whether that freedom is expressed in a market economy which purports to promote it or other structures of social, cultural and political life which are also succumbing to its corrosive effects."
