eggs benedict

"The Rule"
4. Monasteries that followed "Benedict's Rule" could be very useful institutions because enforcing the rules everyone is very controlled and tractable. Such strict rules such as 57. to apply oneself frequently to prayer and 63. to love chastity keeps the people under control. Another reason that the monasteries could be useful is because despite the harshness and lack of freedom the rules assert, the citizens are taught valuable lessons and live to be "good, model citizens". 3. then not to kill, 4. not to commit adultery, 5. not to steal, 6. not to covet, 7. not to bear false witness all encourage and pretty much forces one to become a moral citizen.

5. Socially, it is evident that these people lived in fear 24/7 365 days a year. Rules 44 & 45 (to fear the Day of Judgment & to be in dread of hell, respectively) exhibit such fearful behavior and the Rules definitely fostered this fear, perhaps to have greater control over the people. I can see the government using these rules to their full advantage and scaring the pants off of the people to coerce them into following orders. Economically, I think that the rules could have benefited society. With the fear and love for God that the monasteries encourage, everything is to be done for God. This could be motivational and make society work harder. The paragraph on "Of the Daily Manual Labor" frowns upon laziness and clearly these people were always out and about, getting things done. The Rules create a productive society who fear being lazy since if you are, you go to hell. oh, that's exciting.