Sacrificing Trust In The Banks
I'm rather glad that the Pope managed to mention Abraham in his inaugural mass.After all, of all the Old Testament, the tale of Abraham and Isaac is probably about the most comparable to the current imbroglio in Cyprus.
The father and guardian takes his son to the top of the mount, binds him and is on the point of sacrificing him when, at the last minute, God sends down an angel to stop him.
In an analogous way, the Cypriot government, on orders from on high (the eurogroup in this case, not God) has come to the brink of gouging an unprecedented tax out of its peoples’ savings, and, at the last minute, seems to have been offered a reprieve.*
Now, if this were the Bible, the story would end there. Abraham’s faith was tested, and he passed the test. Conveniently, the ancients glossed over the question of what this incident did to the father-son relationship....MORE
