Judgment is coming

When the global economic meltdown comes, more than the credit markets will freeze. All other forms of capital exchange will begin to freeze. This has implications for energy, transportation, agriculture, water and telecommunications utilities, everything. The United States congress WILL hash out a compromise deal acceptable enough to be passed or we shall witness God's judgment upon this nation and the world. Billions will suffer malnutrition, preventable disease, threats of violence, or the loss of democratic freedoms. Millions may even die from starvation, plague, civil unrest, a new tide of totalitarianism. All because we are a divided nation. But are we going to leave Congress unpunished should the worst scenario materialize because of their intransigent pride and selfish ego? In an increasingly nuclear age, the unthinkable has just become possible. I've seen this day coming since 2001 (thanks to my advanced education), but I thought this day would be over a decade from now. Now I feel like America is Babylon and the Persians are at the gate (figuratively, but don't get me started on Israel and Iran's nuclear ambitions). This may be the day history remembers that America finally lost its status as a superpower. But history is only hindsight. Great Britain thought itself a superpower right up until the day Hitler bombed London. Think about it.

Seven years - 9/11

We all remember where we were and what loved ones whose safety we worried for on that terrible day seven years ago. But how much have we really learned? Television and print journalism is as vapid as the day seven months of wall-to-wall coverage was devoted to O.J. Simpson during his murder trial. Congress is now more divided than at any time since the American Civil War (I've already seen a few blows exchanged - shall we see canings and broken chair brawls return too?). Americans have yet to learn that credit card and refinance companies are EVIL and want them to remain in debt bondage to them FOREVER. Many people still value themselves and others more on the value of their materialistic assets than the value of their characters. God will surely judge this nation, perhaps even by our own hands, if we continue to grow in hatred toward one another. And how many of our children have studied George Washington's cautionary farewell address, or even read the Bible, Quran, or Book of Mormon?

"Father God, hear this online prayer. Let not this nation fall into ruin, despair, strife, and war. May those lives cruelly cut short on 9/11 not have been lost in vain. Let us return to the knowledge of your ways, the knowledge of the blessings and trials you have given this nation over its history, and the wisdom to teach our children to revere the gift given to them and all mankind in the American experiment."