Update to post March 6, 2009:
Author, Joel Rosenburg, is much more eloquent than me. This blog post is worth a reading.
Original post:
This entire week, I am stuck in a room undergoing “training” in my corporate job. Suffice it to say, my brain has a lot of time to wander. Sometimes it returns to me quickly, other times I notice that the instructor has moved on to a completely different topic. So take this for what it is worth.
As I stared at the stock quotes bleeding in red over the last few days, watching 20% of my hard-earned and, what I considered, conservatively invested dollars disappear, I came across a story about the Pope comparing the current global credit crisis to a house built on sand (from Matthew 7:26) and that only the works of God have "solid reality".
Couple that with the fact that I just finished reading Exodus (as I work towards trying to read the entire Bible in a year) and I started thinking about all of the plagues that God sent down on the people of Egypt as Moses worked to free his people from slavery. My active imagination brought me to this thought (crazy as it may be):
Is the current global recession a result of some divine intervention? Instead of sending a plague of locust, flies, gnats, hail, boils, darkness or killing our first born, he/she/it has hit us in the most vulnerable spot known to the modern man or woman . . . . . . our pocketbook, our 401(K), our retirement accounts, our E*Trade and Schwab account.
Think about it, in a matter of three days (maybe two) he/she/it took $2 trillion dollars out of our pockets. He/she/it can do it again and again and again. So what’s the point?
The Lost Art of Critical Thinking and Common Sense in Politics and Public Policy
