ansel12 wrote:
“Where would Western Civilization be without an institution and unifying center such as the Catholic Church to bring it together in religion, in it’s fight against the various invaders of the past.”
I can see that you are an optimist. But the truth is that you don’t even know the answer to your own question. You assume that the answer would be that Western Civilization would be worse off. But, you know, you could very well be wrong, dead wrong. If the pope had simply followed the way of Christ, the way of the apostles, the way of the martyrs we so praise in the Te Deum Laudamus, maybe we would have won, just as we won over the pagan religion of the divine emperors of Rome. Don’t be so sure that you understand history better than God Himself.
In the same way, Obama is quick to ask where would we be if he hadn’t bailed out the banks (TARP ... and, yes, I know that happened on Bush’s watch, but with tremendous pressure from Obama and the Dems) and hadn’t stimulated the economy with $787,000,000,000. My answer to his question would be: maybe we would have been a helluvalot (this is kingdom-of-the-left phraseology, if you were wondering) better off than we are now.
"In the same way, Obama is quick to ask where would we be if he hadn’t bailed out the banks (TARP ... and, yes, I know that happened on Bush’s watch, but with tremendous pressure from Obama and the Dems) and hadn’t stimulated the economy with $787,000,000,000."
A 1700 year history fantasy rewrite, (which you did not fill in), and a Obama tie in.
I think I will pass on a your insights.