(Tokyo Station)Financial Crisis and Faithful Christians
Now, you must ask, “Lord, what is all this for?”
Then, you have to find the answer: “It is for glory of the God to be manifested.”
Let’s see what the Pope said and what an American Christian said:
---------------------------------------------
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI says the global financial crisis show the futility of money and ambition.
Benedict says that "now with the collapse of big banks we see that money disappears, is nothing and all these things that appear real are in fact of secondary importance." He urges those who build their lives "only on things that are visible, such as success, career, money" to keep that in mind.
The pontiff was speaking Monday as he opened the works of a meeting of 253 bishops at the Vatican.
Benedict says "the only solid reality is the word of God."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081006/ap_on_re_eu/eu_vatican_pope_meltdown;_ylt=A0oGktt7JwVJFjMBYUdTDqMX;_ylu=X3oDMTBvdmM3bGlxBHBndANhdl93ZWJfcmVzdWx0BHNlYwNzcg--
---------------------------------------------
The Pope should have showed his love to victims of the Wall Street debacle and his love to the enemy of those victims, since the Pope must have been one of victims.
----------------------------------------------
A Christian View of the Economic Crisis
Is the economy really driven by greed?
Al Mohler | posted 9/29/2008 10:03AM
…
Christians should think seriously about this economic crisis and ponder what it would mean to come to a Christian understanding of what it means to be participants in this economy. As Adam Smith recognized, the economy is a moral reality. Human beings actualize their moral selves in making economic choices and through participation in the economic system — and we are all participants.
Indeed, one of the defining differences between the current crisis and the crisis of the 1920s and 1930s is that the vast majority of Americans are now, in effect, investors. Our retirement accounts are, by and large, mingled with the investments of the titans of industry. Through their pension funds, school teachers are investors right alongside Warren Buffet. This was not the case in the run-up to the Great Depression. We all want and need the stock market to do well, and the outcome of any market crisis effects both Bill Gates and the worker in the local medical clinic…
The Bible honors investment and thrift, and Christians must be wary of the impulse for short-term gains and pressure for instant profit. Over the long-haul, the entire economy must prosper if the vast majority are to do well and realize a responsible gain….
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/septemberweb-only/140-12.0.html?start=2
----------------------------------------------
Under the expression of Christ-recommended investment, American Christians are doing the opposite thing to what Jesus Christ recommended.
Jesus’ investment means the investment for others so as to make others happy.
American Christians’ investment is intended to make themselves happy, which is anti-Christian.
In this context, it is truly the end of justice in the Vatican and the Christian Nation the United States of America.
If the Pope loses ability to put himself in the same status as a poor man, he cannot be qualified as a follower of Jesus Christ anymore.
If American Christians still think about only themselves, neglecting poor people in the world who are being badly affected by this Wall Street debacle, they are no more Christians at all, since even followers of the Devil would use terms in the Bible following the interpretation extended by the Devil.
In summary, the Pope should become one of poor men; American Christians should worry about poor people in the world but not themselves.
Then, glory of the God will be manifested.
*************************************************************
It is said that investors are selling securities and bonds contaminated by, or linked with subprime loans, to secure dollars at hand.
And then, it is said that they are selling dollars to get and keep yen, since Japan is the least contaminated by, and linked with, devils, fiends and goblins on Wall Street.
However, if Americans and Europeans cannot be free from conventional views and thoughts of Christianity used in justification of their financial activities for their own profits, they would not be truly saved by Japan without mentioning the God.
On the other hand, if Japanese cannot realize the defect in religious paradigms of the Vatican and American Christianity, they would not be able to save Europe and America (and China has never recognized a concept of saving the world).
That is why I am telling you that those who have belonged to the Vatican or Christian communities in America and Europe should listen to EEE Reporter.
It is so, since Japanese in any political parties cannot ultimately enjoy a status more than the one of being a blessed outsider from European/American Christianity.
(Between the Kingdom of God and Wall Street, there might be a lane where a tune of Mozart is drifting.
http://windy.vis.ne.jp/art/lib2/kv467_2.htm
Source: http://windy.vis.ne.jp/art/classic-midi/index.html)
Mat 10:26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
Mat 10:27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.