Is Entering the Clergy a Better Bail-Out 

than Obama can Offer?

This week's Newsweek has a curious article about the documented rise in seminary enrollment and attendance following cataclysmic events (genre 9/11) and hard times (like recession/depressions).  Turns out most seminaries expect increasing enrollment in the next 12 months.  Ironic because you'll spend about $20,000 a year going to school (for at least 3 years) in order to be ordained and then make about $45,000 a year (if you're lucky).  Not necessarily a good bail-out option.  I'd suggest retraining yourself for green technology, or maybe bounty-hunter to chase down those derelicts that so many fear we'll release once they leave Guantanamo.

The article Divine Refuge in the Storm ends with an interesting quote: "You turn to God sometimes when it's so grim."  I wonder why do we do so only when life is grim?  Is God merely a force to save us when no one else can?  What kind of bail-out is that?