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The past two years have seen the western, if not entire global, economies on the very brink of destruction and collapse. What has been amazing is the denial of true culpability in this near disaster, and the desire to impale those who took the drastic measures required to pull it from a steep nose dive.

As I watch the now very civil (translated diluted political double talk) taking place in the testimony on Capital Hill and in the White House. Just amazing how we've made it so easy, and deny any real change to our system. Amazing how we are not interested in stopping the unbridled greed that brought ab out this mess, not to mention ruined MILLIONS of peoples' lives as they were given mortgages that were not wise, would destroy them, and were simply banks making boucoup $$$ from selling off their horrible loans. The defense goes something like this, "They should have known they were getting a bad deal. It's on them for taking it." WHAT? What about the audacity to actually create and sell such rubbish, note word sell - which means far more than offer it, but market it, convince and create the situations where working people after getting a firm footing are taken advantage of because they don't have the background counsel or awareness of the sharks teeth they were climbing into. Where was the furor over the horrible audacity to actually want to get rich - knowing it would be through destroying so many lives.

The Bible speaks clearly about exploitation, abuse and unethical loans. Do we think in our sophisticated complex society that it somehow is not the plain and simple usery the Bible addresses? If we relabel it, God will be fooled and no longer call it sin, no longer judge it?

Those of us who are deeply vested in these financial institutions, do we think we are less culpable because we've abdicated the management of our investments to others? Are we not equal partakers, by our omission of action, to this sin?

When will God's people speak into the society, act in the society and demand that we act ethically and as God would want us to?

When asking the single drop of ocean water if it was responsible for the tsunami, it replied, "I am but one drop of water, what could I have done?"