Sometimes, reality is so deliciously humorous that there is little one can say beyond reporting and reflecting upon it. President Obama, after copying page after page out of the Bush Administration strategies on the current economic crisis, has decided to copy yet another! He wants to open, or is it reestablish, the Bush office of faith-based initiatives? The supposed improvement is that it will not show any favoritism.
Sending tax dollars to religious organizations is, in my mind, the wrong way to go as a society. On the other hand, if there was a requirement that each recipient of Federal largesse was required to pray for the success of the faith-based financial initiatives that Obama has proposed and, going a step further, pray that the souls of the banksters are (not) condemned to the fires of the Inferno, then maybe there will be some social benefit.
Do any of you have creative suggestions on what the New Office of Faith-based Initiatives could do?