From T1:9

• The whole Christ. He either deceived mankind... was himself deluded... or he was divine. There is no getting out of this trilemma.
• Theodicy: why under a benevolent God do things like the Upper Big Branch mine disaster or, harder, natural disasters happen? Image: St Barbara, patroness of miners.
• Like the Tower of Babel, false ecumenism in the form of common texts is crashing down. A mainline counterfeit of the Catholic unity in the Roman Rite and the Byzantine and other Eastern rites. One reason for the failure besides mainline decline is better Roman Rite texts as part of Pope Benedict’s Catholic revival. As Charley has said, the lasting accomplishment of ecumenism is not union but better understanding (me: let’s teach the Protestants about the true faith) so the two sides aren’t trying to kill each other.
• Joblessness: the kids are not alright.
• The end of cheap credit. A reality check for many.

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