Recommended: Faith Matters - for those in peril on the sea

Walter Russel Mead has posted another of his insightful articles, Faith Matters: For Those In Peril On The Sea. Well worth reading and thinking about.

As he points, government simply can't remove all the hazards from our lives, even if the devout liberals believe it can. Hazard has always been part of life, and it always will be. The problem isn't that hazards exist; it is that we Americans in our comfortable 21st century technological cocoon are poorly prepared for the realities of the real world, in which bad things (tsunamis, earthquakes financial collapses, wars, famine, epidemics, etc, etc.) happen, and happen frequently.