Stabilizers

There are two beliefs of Christianity that stabilize civilization.  One is the Imago dei meaning the image of God.  The concept starts in Genesis at the creation and shoots through the eschatology of Judaism and then Christianity.

The second is that "to whom much is given, much will be required".  It basically gives a person two things.  People with "much" will have to account in the afterlife for what they did with it, and to gain more and more means to have more responsibility with what you did with "much".  This allows for a warning for material gain, and if taken to heart puts an easy on social classes.  This does not mean social advancement in wrong.  It means social advancement comes with an equally greater responsibility.

A Science of Morallity

This post is to an article that has been on the Net for awhile. An interesting direction it has taken on ethics.
 I briefly argued that morality should be considered an undeveloped branch of science. 

racial sampling VDH

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/288353/obama-s-racial-politics-victor-davis-hanson

Analysis of what the EU has done to itself

http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_1_otbie-european-debt-crisis.html

research base on the moon

Roscosmos is discussing the possibilities for a permanent moon base with officials from NASA and the European Space Agency,

Read more: http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpps/news/russia-us-moon-base-nasa-dpgonc-20110119-to-_17194074#ixzz1jvtMW300