Parable of unforgiving Servant: Servant's debts were forgiven but wouldn't forgive debts owed him.

[Democrats_win]

This is like the bailout. The big banks are like the servant who's huge debt was forgiven by his master. Then the servant went out to a fellow servant and demanded to be paid (even grabbing him by the neck). The amount owed was much smaller than what the original servant owed his master. This is what will happen with the banks. They will take people to court to demand tiny amounts even though the government bailed them out. They will pester people who have suffered greatly under the financial industry-run economy for every last cent. Don't forget that fact, the financial industry made the rules. If they can't survive, how in G's name could the little guy make it?

(source of the parable: Matt. 18:23-35 http://www.bcbsr.com/survey/pbl14.html )

A caller to the local Air America brought up this parable so I thought I'd pass some of his ideas along.

[zeemike]

1. I suspect that you are right

Because they are wicked servants.

[cloudythescribbler]

2. I find this Christianic notion of mercy not as discretionary, but as mandatory, 2 B 1 of THE ...

MOST abused principles in a tradition that I don't adhere to to begin with. The grossest offenses are forgiven against the peons, who are mandatorily supposed to forgive the oppressor elite class (and its copperheads), or one is "deaf" etc etc, and thus (as in so many other things, eg slavery) the elite of the "Christian family" retain power, prerogative, and oppression with impunity (the hidden agenda of the whole system in practice), protestations to the contrary notwithstanding.

There is TOO MUCH forgiveness for SOME and GROSSLY NOT ENOUGH for others