Comments on: Religion and Occupy Wall Street

By: jimpinto

jimpinto — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:27:12 +0000

Poem: Occupy Wall Street http://jimpinto.com/writings/o…
This was written on October 15, 2011 while the “Occupy Wall Street” movement was just about a month old, and still growing. Many are confused with the message. This poem may help to explain. I’ll appreciate your comments and suggestions as I prepare a YouTube video.

By: Irene

Irene — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:30:22 +0000

The protesters are doing what should have been done by journalist and news media all along this past decade. I wish I had the courage to be out in public to protest the incredible destructive actions of some major players on wall street, in fact some actions were illegal. This freezing up of the bailout money highlights how Main Street and the Middle Class are considered dispensable by wall street and their Washington legislators who are bought by Wall Street. Let’s support these protesters and write letters to the editors about the issues that are being at least finally discussed nationally. Wall Street has pushed us to the brink of a depression, a word we are afraid to say. Ask anyone who cannot find a job and thus cannot pay their bills to live in these United States. I urge us to refocus the executive bonus money + bail out money to support small businesses, to rebuild our infrastructure, and to re-inspire our educators & administrators to care about the students and not just their paycheck. Bring back the 1933 regulations to separate the investment bank from the depositor bank. Make transactions transparent and let investment banks fail when they can not cover their bets. Prosecute any trading desk that does “naked shorts”. That is like printing money without any consequences. The main street reason this is dangerous is because retirees who are pushed to invest in the stock market to earn some return on their savings. The retirees are considered as the dumb money for the traders who do shorts and have no money to back up their trade. This is just one example. In conclusion, please focus on NO MONEY IN POLITICS. Instead put the MONEY into R&D, MANUFACTURING, EDUCATION. Yes the tax payer funds this and let them get the benefits and profits from that investment. Bonuses depend on the success of the company for at least 5 years after any board member & CEO leaves to see if the company survives their tenure. If we do these simple steps we will have a free market economy and not a government subsidized Wall Street.

As for religion, “In God we trust” is on our dollar bills. I believe that is where my trust needs to go only and anybody else, I watch and see their actions not just their words.

By: Irene

Irene — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:49:46 +0000

I for one am grateful for the courage of those occupying Wall Street. The simple message of most of those protesters is that the illegal behavior of Wall Street has brought the middle class economy to a dangerous point of failure. The tax payer was given no choice but to bail out Wall Street, & they did not reform their crooked ways. Wall Street infected global markets, which in turn highlighted the disparity of the one tenth of one percent who continue to thrive monetarily and the rest of the country desparetly looking to continue to work and support their families or pay off their student loans.

By: Odd, interesting & sometimes even important religious/political news - blog by Gurdur - Blogs on the Heathen Hub

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:07:12 +0000

[...] hijacking as legitimization for the self-serving ultra-rightwing. But some don't like it. There's a snarky blog post about it all by a conservative, Joseph Knippenberg, who seems to have a direct upload to the mind of God and the [...]

By: Latest Religion

Latest Religion — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:49:19 +0000

[...] This is another way of saying that sussing out religion in Occupy Wall Street might be easier through attention to the origins and effects of the impulses playing out in groups that identify with the phenomenon. To the ways that they draw upon or … Read more on First Things (blog) [...]

By: pentamom

pentamom — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:55:47 +0000

I’ll confess to maybe being unaware of something, but what’s the history of religious lynching in Colonial America? I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of such a thing before.

By: Blake

Blake — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:02:25 +0000

Jefferson, the man who was so liberal that he helped end the practice of forcing religious minorities from being forced to fund the churches of those who lynched them?

I think George Washington treated his slaves better.

Washington set them all free in his will. Jefferson just left his slaves to his heirs.

If treating minorities well is what made Jefferson “liberal”, then the practice of cognitive dissonance has been associated with America’s left wing since its very founding.

By: More on Occupy Wall Street » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog

More on Occupy Wall Street » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:25:52 +0000

[...] « Previous |Home| Next » More on Occupy Wall Street Monday, October 10, 2011, 12:30 PM Joseph Knippenberg There’s a good bit more than I noted in my first post. [...]

By: The World Wide (Religious) Web for Monday, October 10, 2011 « GeorgePWood.com

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:24:38 +0000

[...] “Religion and Occupy Wall Street.” I have no doubt that God is with the folks near Wall Street, but I doubt they’ve recognized Him [...]

By: Corey Mondello

Corey Mondello — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:11:31 +0000

“Jim Wallis’ left-wing evangelicals—have (not surprisingly) hitched their wagon to the Occupy Wall Street star.” WOW, talk about a comment providing further proof that Christians eating their own is still alive and well, like when the first settlers of America tossed out and killed anyone not following their “version” of Christianity.

“Jefferson’s Jesus” you mean the one who re-wrote the bible, the version that was handed out to every new member of Congress for decades, the one written by Jefferson, the man who was so liberal that he helped end the practice of forcing religious minorities from being forced to fund the churches of those who lynched them?