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“When Titus found fault with him for contriving a tax upon public conveniences, [Vespasian] held a piece of money from the first payment to his son’s nose, asking whether its odor was offensive to him. When Titus said ‘No,’ he replied, ‘Yet it comes from urine.’”

There's a story very similar to this relating to Jesus; one of the only mentions of him in the Jewish texts. Somebody asked him whether it was lawful to donate the price of a prostitute to the temple treasury. His reply was something on the order of "why not use the money to build a toilet for the high priest ... from the place of filth, to the place of filth."

A monologue by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson set off a debate over the obligation of businesses to care about the welfare of their fellow citizens, and the impact of their products on society’s morals and happiness. But the responses of both sides miss the true culprit–– the corroding effects of secularism, the two-centuries-long intellectual movement that has tried to do without God, and replace Him with government.

What more needs to be said.

You can’t spend millions trying to eliminate the father of morality from society as government has done and then complain that the people are amoral.

Business is simply people writ large. If you work relentlessly to eliminate God from the public sphere you will eventually remove morality from society.

What can you expect from society then? What can you expect from business then?

Why should business care about individuals? It doesn’t raise the bottom line.

The only reason big business does anything altruistic is optics.

Don’t be fooled business plays to the largest common denominator.

Real morality never enters the board room. Why because God has been banned from society and therefor from the souls of those who inhabit the seats of power.

Libertarians argue that open borders aren't a problem; the welfare state is. But they ignore the fact that it's easier for a representative republic or democracy to do something about borders than about the welfare state.

Is it the same way here? Is it harder to do something about secularization and unbelief than about other problems? Is it harder to get people to believe in God and act like it than it is to cope with other trouble they get into?

The stats quoted here led me to find this great article:

https://fee.org/articles/the-great-horse-manure-crisis-of-1894/

Does this somehow sound familiar?

“In 1898 the first international urban-planning conference convened in New York. It was abandoned after three days, instead of the scheduled ten, because none of the delegates could see any solution to the growing crisis posed by urban horses and their output.

The problem did indeed seem intractable. The larger and richer that cities became, the more horses they needed to function. The more horses, the more manure. Writing in the Times of London in 1894, one writer estimated that in 50 years every street in London would be buried under nine feet of manure. Moreover, all these horses had to be stabled, which used up ever-larger areas of increasingly valuable land. And as the number of horses grew, ever-more land had to be devoted to producing hay to feed them (rather than producing food for people), and this had to be brought into cities and distributed—by horse-drawn vehicles. It seemed that urban civilization was doomed.

Crisis Vanished

Of course, urban civilization was not buried in manure. The great crisis vanished when millions of horses were replaced by motor vehicles.”