History is now and America

I just had to use this photo again, with this quotation from Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria:

"Some of us—especially those under 60—have always wondered what it would be like to live through the kind of epochal event one reads about in books. Well, this is it. We're now living history, suffering one of the greatest financial panics of all time. It compares with the big ones—1907, 1929—and we cannot yet know its full consequences for the financial system, the economy or society as a whole."

My father always preached the Ten Commandments (see below) in a way that many people found strange. He said that no one could ever expect to keep all ten commandments, all the time. Even "the thought of foolishness" is sin, according to Proverbs 24, verse 9. So instead, we were all meant to look at the Ten Commandments and realize that we could never reach God's exacting standard. Then we would know that only Christ's death for all sin was our way of escaping from being judged by that unreachable standard.

This is an unorthodox interpretation of the Ten... I can't help feeling that Wall Street and the economy would not be in such a mess if people had been less covetous, if they had not worshiped the US$ as a god, etcetera.