It's strange how Christians shy away from any serious political discussion. We are living through one of those times that happens rarely - the collapse of the last western empire. The US entered World War Two in the expectation of inheriting the empires that Britain and France, in particular, were obviously about to lose. It hasn't been able to do it.

It is also so corrupt that its currency in eally quite valueless. All it takes now is for a major, lender nation to reofuse to accept the American dollar as the world's reserve currency - and the dollar will collapse to the value of wall paper.

The US  can prevent this only with constant war to establish effective deominance of the world, and use that power to write off its debts. But it's not working as the performance of the US military has been miserable for generations.

The US is also militarizing its police forces as if they were combat troops. Most recently, some Texas cities' police forces have been supplied with tanks. I don't think they're getting them to chase jaywalkers.

meanwhile, the tea partyers have embraced the Ayn Rand philosophy that the very perverted fomr of capitalism running wild in the US and around the world is actually a form of morality.

Little awareness of this shows up on the Religion page where people prefer to avoid any topic having to do with morality. But one would think that Christians would be concerned with these topics as they affect real life.

I had always thought that Jesus spoke mostly of our earhly behaviour. But I must have misread it. The really important message must be that his mother was a virgin, and he could do faith healing.