Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?

God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.

Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.

We who are about to die, are going to take one hell of a lot of the bastards with us.

We expect that many of these people will be in very deep trouble by the time they come to us,