When things are down and out people tend to go in search of higher powers.
And President Barack Obama is, after all, a person (and does not walk on water like some fans might believe).
His speech on the economy, given in a hall with painted religious figures at Georgetown University, a Jesuit school, was sprinkled with religious metaphors. Perhaps he’s hoping for some divine intervention out of the country’s financial mess.
(The religious metaphors come on the heels of Obama’s first attendance at a Sunday church service since he became president. Coincidence?) 
“There is a parable at the end of the Sermon on the Mount that tells the story of two men. The first built his house on a pile of sand, and it was destroyed as soon as the storm hit,” Obama said.
“But the second is known as the wise man, for when ‘…the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house…it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.”
