basically have to trust that the
\nvery people who watched while things got broke will be wiser when they put
\nthings back together.<\/a><\/p>\nListening to President Bush, Paulson and Bernanke explain
\nall of this is akin to hearing someone talking about a natural disaster.\u00a0 <\/span>This happened, it is horrible, and if
\nwe don’t fix it the world will spiral downward and out of control. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>So, please, send us your money or
\nmore people will suffer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nWell, I don’t know a lot about economics, but I do know that
\nthis wasn’t a natural disaster; this wasn’t an act of God that created the
\nfinancial crisis that we are apparently in – it was acts against God.\u00a0 <\/span>It was the sin of greed and excess and
\nworshiping at Mammon’s feet by some careless, guilty and very rich souls that
\ngot us here.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>While I can’t
\nsay exactly what I want to have happen on the economic front, I can say on the
\nspiritual side that I WANT TO SEE SOME REPENTENCE AND ATONEMENT!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nI have not heard one person or financial group stand up and
\nsay that they are sorry that they broke the public’s trust and personally
\nacknowledge that their short sightedness and greed caused this collapse.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>It is a spiritual tenet of my faith that until you have repentance
\nand atonement, that you cannot have forgiveness and reconciliation.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0Wall Street – t<\/span>he American people are waiting.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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