As Chuck Colson said, "Most of us have been badly shaken by the tumultuous events ... in Wall Street. If you have an IRA or some kind of retirement plan, no doubt you're licking your wounds. You may even be fearful. I understand. I've experienced those apprehensions myself....
"Because these financial troubles are the direct result of our nation turning its back on God. Simply put, the rise of relativism in postmodern Western life has led to the collapse of a moral consensus. With everyone making up his own rules when it comes to right and wrong, is it any wonder our economic system is under stress?
"Michael Novak, the great theologian, has said that Western democratic capitalism is like a three-legged stool, resting on political freedom, economic freedom, and moral restraint. Take away moral restraint, and the stool collapses."1
For many an individual to turn to God it takes a crisis. For a nation to turn back to God it often takes a national crisis. May this be the case here in the U.S. so that we turn back to our moral moorings and again let it be said that "in God we Trust." Let's be realistic, it's going to take a lot more than all the king's horses and all the king's men to put Humpty Dumpty together again.
-chuck colson
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