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Link: http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/08/10/disputing-darwin/
This is the title of an essay by Wretchard of Belmont Club on the creation of an entire generation of dependents whose only ability is to riot when the subsidies and the handouts run out. It springs from a masterful article by Theodore Dalyrymple in City Journal.
Comment #33, provides a valuable link to how a Catholic Bishop in pre-Civil War New York City saved the Irish from a similar fate using Biblical methodologies. Here's an interesting quote:
A religion of discipline, stressing conduct and the avoidance of sin, can be a pinched and gloomy affair, but Hughes’s teaching had a very different inflection. His priests mitigated the harshness with the encouraging Doctrine of the Sacred Heart, which declares that if you keep the commandments, God will be your protector, healer, advisor, and perfect personal friend. To a people despised by many, living in desperate circumstances, with narrow economic possibilities, such a teaching was a bulwark against anger, despair, and fear. Hughes’s Catholicism was upbeat and encouraging: if God Almighty was your personal friend, you could overcome.
Not at all different from the core ideas that I am pursuing.
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