Stunned Credit Contracters
As the current economic "meltdown" progresses, two axioms are confidently spouted by power brokers both political and economic: "We must restore confidence in the market," and "We must prevent a serious contraction of credit." Everyone hears them often and we all breathe a sigh of relief because it seems these guys really know what's going on and they're on the job to fix it.
But what do these two statements really mean?
What exactly is "confidence in the market," as if our trust must be in the place where buyers and sellers meet? For that is all that a market is, a place where buyers and sellers meet. Is there something wrong with that--are the market seats too lumpy? Are the market floors a bit too slippery? The lights in the market just too bright? Air conditioning doesn't work properly?
No, it is not the market that is at fault. It is the people who do business there. And why does "confidence" in those people need to be "restored"? It is simple.
It is because so many of them are liars and so many of them know they are liars that grandiose plans for elaborate regulation are demanded so we can be more sure we won't be lied to again. The point is not so much that Caesar is all over regulation of some kind, but that so many need to be put under his thumb. This from a populace that refuses to acknowledge its complicity in all of this, indeed abjectly dismissing out of hand any suggestion that there is a thing called
Sin.
And what about this "contraction of credit" thing? What's with that? The word credit is actually Latin for "he believes." If credit is being contracted, doesn't that then mean that the belief in someone--or better, the widespread belief about a whole bunch of people--is not really what it was thought to be? If "contraction of credit" is feared, then doesn't it follow that this means that, wow, people are worthless, and World inhabitants are simply making note of that? In other words, is it then indeed true that there are that many individuals who cannot be trusted to have the value they said they had or that some thought they had, and to some profound extent they've been lying and doing a really good job of it?
Whup, there's that thing again no one wants to confront.
Sin.
Oh, gee Dave, that's what those in the Middle Ages obsessed about. Go away, you with your Neanderthal religious ideas. We've got real problems to deal with, like trying to get everyone to believe people have value by waving 700 billion greenish rectangular papers in front of their faces.
Meanwhile, a group of pastors have decided to speak from their pulpits this weekend to brazenly endorse or reject certain political candidates, a no-no according to IRS rules. The purpose is to create a case for the Alliance Defense Fund to run with so it can challenge those rules in court and provide church leaders with more freedom to address political issues.
What does this have to do with the economic crisis? If you can answer two questions you may be able to connect the dots.
Who makes the laws that govern the World's assessment of value?
Who sets the value of those who've trusted in Christ and His work of salvation, and then committed to live in His Kingdom by His word and counsel?
Are these two the same?
Most pastors seem to think their Jesus assesses value the way the World does. They may say they know about Kingdom value, but I don't know. They get a nice hefty paycheck from the World by being 501c3 non-profit corporations. Interesting, they're engaging in blatant violation of IRS rules just to keep their tax exemptions--they want to spit at the World and stay on its payroll.
No wonder they have no credit.
Everyone running around like Chicken Littles, arms flailing and voices screeching "The market is falling, the market is falling! Credit is shrinking, credit is shrinking!"
Really, come on, this is a surprise?
Unless you take the World's cue and continue lying to yourself.
But what do these two statements really mean?
What exactly is "confidence in the market," as if our trust must be in the place where buyers and sellers meet? For that is all that a market is, a place where buyers and sellers meet. Is there something wrong with that--are the market seats too lumpy? Are the market floors a bit too slippery? The lights in the market just too bright? Air conditioning doesn't work properly?
No, it is not the market that is at fault. It is the people who do business there. And why does "confidence" in those people need to be "restored"? It is simple.
It is because so many of them are liars and so many of them know they are liars that grandiose plans for elaborate regulation are demanded so we can be more sure we won't be lied to again. The point is not so much that Caesar is all over regulation of some kind, but that so many need to be put under his thumb. This from a populace that refuses to acknowledge its complicity in all of this, indeed abjectly dismissing out of hand any suggestion that there is a thing called
Sin.
And what about this "contraction of credit" thing? What's with that? The word credit is actually Latin for "he believes." If credit is being contracted, doesn't that then mean that the belief in someone--or better, the widespread belief about a whole bunch of people--is not really what it was thought to be? If "contraction of credit" is feared, then doesn't it follow that this means that, wow, people are worthless, and World inhabitants are simply making note of that? In other words, is it then indeed true that there are that many individuals who cannot be trusted to have the value they said they had or that some thought they had, and to some profound extent they've been lying and doing a really good job of it?
Whup, there's that thing again no one wants to confront.
Sin.
Oh, gee Dave, that's what those in the Middle Ages obsessed about. Go away, you with your Neanderthal religious ideas. We've got real problems to deal with, like trying to get everyone to believe people have value by waving 700 billion greenish rectangular papers in front of their faces.
Meanwhile, a group of pastors have decided to speak from their pulpits this weekend to brazenly endorse or reject certain political candidates, a no-no according to IRS rules. The purpose is to create a case for the Alliance Defense Fund to run with so it can challenge those rules in court and provide church leaders with more freedom to address political issues.
What does this have to do with the economic crisis? If you can answer two questions you may be able to connect the dots.
Who makes the laws that govern the World's assessment of value?
Who sets the value of those who've trusted in Christ and His work of salvation, and then committed to live in His Kingdom by His word and counsel?
Are these two the same?
Most pastors seem to think their Jesus assesses value the way the World does. They may say they know about Kingdom value, but I don't know. They get a nice hefty paycheck from the World by being 501c3 non-profit corporations. Interesting, they're engaging in blatant violation of IRS rules just to keep their tax exemptions--they want to spit at the World and stay on its payroll.
No wonder they have no credit.
Everyone running around like Chicken Littles, arms flailing and voices screeching "The market is falling, the market is falling! Credit is shrinking, credit is shrinking!"
Really, come on, this is a surprise?
Unless you take the World's cue and continue lying to yourself.
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