The displaced occupiers had asked the church [Trinity Wall Street], one of the city’s largest landholders, to hand over a gravel lot, near Canal Street and Avenue of the Americas, for use as an alternate campsite and organizing hub. The church declined, calling the proposed encampment “wrong, unsafe, unhealthy and potentially injurious.”Occupists get nasty with Trinity Wall Street Episcopal Church
And now the Occupy movement, after weeks of targeting big banks and large corporations, has chosen Trinity, one of the nation’s most prominent Episcopal parishes, as its latest antagonist.
“We need more; you have more,” one protester, Amin Husain, 36, told a Trinity official on Thursday, during an impromptu sidewalk exchange between clergy members and demonstrators. “We are coming to you for sanctuary.”
Sunday, December 18, 2011
If you won't give it, we'll take it--the Occupists
This is what "social justice" theology gets you--rude, ungrateful pagans who don't want what Jesus has to offer, Forgiveness of sins.
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You don’t need to be religious to understand -and embrace- the idea that "Whatsoever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." But the 1%, in their blind greed and schemes, have forgotten and closed their eyes to this, and to what the word "society" should really mean. Because of Occupy Wall Street, we are finally talking less about CUTS and more about BLEEDING. Instead of demanding m-o-r-e budget cuts -to be borne by the middle class and poor- we are FINALLY focusing on the shameful bleeding that the poor and middle class has endured for all too long. Instead of talking about even m-o-r-e cuts in the taxes of millionaires....we are now talking about fairness and justice - about an economy and a political system that is increasingly run for the rich, and by the rich. Instead of talking about LESS government, we are talking about a government that WORKS FOR ALL OF US, not just a favored few. Thank you OWS, for reminding us that people -ordinary working people- really DO matter, and for helping open our eyes to what’s really going on in this country. Trinity Church should look deep into its collective soul, do the right thing, and help OWS.
I think you're misreading Matt. 25, but just in case it's the only verse you've heard, Jesus never suggested stealing anyone wealth, or coveting it, or occupying someone else's property. We've been talking fairness and justice for a century in politics, and all it has done is make more people dependent on the government. Less government means more wealth for the people. OWS might be a lot of things, and I know there are sincerely ignorant people in the movement, but they have not helped ordinary working people.
The top 1% of the top 1% fund most of the political campaigns and candidates, and 7 out of 10 of those they fund are Democrats who want to see the government get bigger and bigger.
If Trinity were preaching the gospel, instead of the law, the people they serve would be much better off.
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