I just finished reading this article in the New York Times and as a Christian, I take exception to just about everything it represents. The title "At ‘Occupy’ Protests, Bearing Christian Witness Without Preaching". Lefties pretending to be Christians, pretending to be doing good, joining 'occupy' groups -- all so wrong -- or perhaps it should be expected.
At Occupy Wall Street and the allied events, there are police officers in the symbolic 99 percent, wearing uniforms. There are self-proclaimed mothers in the 99 percent. There are Marines. There are Muslims and Jews, yoginis and puppeteers. Sometimes they proclaim their tribes on signs in protest-movement Magic Marker; other times their meaningful headgear speaks loud enough: firefighter’s hat, bus driver’s cap, yarmulke.
Yes, and those with the yarmulke are verbally and physically attacked because they are Jews, blamed for 'owning everything'.
There are Christians, too, eager to be seen as Christians. They face a special challenge. They want to make the church visible, so they wear clerical collars or other religious garb, like the albs, or white robes, that lay Christians may also wear.
But they know that many, especially on the political left, are wary of Christians, suspicious that these men and women in strange garments are seeking converts. When liberal activists hear “Christian,” they often think “conservative.” Many would thrill to see an imam marching next to them but shudder at a priest.
So committed Christians have different answers to the question, “How Christian should we seem?” Marisa Egerstrom, an Episcopalian who studies religion at Harvard, recognized Occupy Wall Street as a sign of the times, “a continuation of the Arab Spring.” On Sept. 17, she brought a group of 10 Boston-area Christians, including Roman Catholics and Lutherans, to Zuccotti Park in New York.
Since when do Christians, real Christians, feel they must put on some kind of uniform in order to show they are Christian? Too many demoninations have watered down their message, turned into social clubs rather than churches.
What did these Christians do in their costumes at the 'occupy' events? Quote scripture? Nope. They chanted devotionals from Taizé, the ecumenical Christian community in France, and they sang “Ubi Caritas,” the Gregorian hymn.
Who are these people? Marisa Egerstrom started Protest Chaplains, which emphasizes the ecumenical nature of its work. Erica Richmond is a Unitarian Universalist. . .
The term Christian has no real meaning for many these days, faith in God, Salvation by faith in Jesus Christ are no longer required. These people don't care if someone says ‘I am not religious, but I am spiritual,’ They hold prayer services and are careful not to use any particular word for God.
In my opinion, the true meaning of ecumenical and unitarian? Secular!
Yes we wouldn't want to offend the lost by using the word God. Perhaps it is just me, perhaps I am reading this article wrong. But...
Now let's be reminded exactly what is going on at the 'occupy' gatherings, including drugs, rapes, vandalism, anti-semitism, death, disease, and yes anti-Christianity:
DEATH, DISEASE PLAGUE 'OCCUPY' PROTESTS...
Dead man in Salt Lake City...
Tuberculosis in Atlanta...
'Zuccotti Lung' on Wall Street...
Suicide in Vermont...
Murder in Oakland...
Personally I think preaching a little fire and brimstone would be a good thing at these 'occupy rallies. Don't you?
As stated here, those at the 'occupy' groups are "... protesting because they suck at life. Their lives suck. They are doomed to suck." And as commented here, "They would still be losers in a socialist system but not for the reasons.... Those who rise to the top of a socialist system are the same people who win at "Survivor": the best at scheming, manipulation, back-stabbing, and maneuvering.".
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