Month: February 2012

Obama Attends Pro-Occupy Church (which “proves” OWS is evil via assoc w/Obama #OWS

A post from the Fox-y-gen Fringe: Time and time again, this president shows his support for the lawless and violent SOCIALISTS & COMMUNISTS  over at OWS. And disses the Tea Partiers–he called us teabaggers— who stand for fiscal responsibility, Capitalism, LIBERTY, balanced budgets and the Constitution. http://exposethemedia.com/2012/01/15/obama-attends-pro-occupy-church/ Is there an acronymn like LOL for “shaking my head”?  Maybe , uh….SMH?  If Continue Reading

The Powers and “the way things are” HT @glassdimlyfaith #OWS

Some excellent writing from Walter Wink on the subject of “The Powers”,  which is a direct hit from a theological perspective on the very systems against which Occupy rails (with only a few theological caveats and some fine theological tuning) when evil ran roughshod through corporate boardrooms and even churches, unnoticed and unnamed, while “Satan” was relegated to superego reinforcement Continue Reading

Thoughts on intro to Richard Wolff’s ‘Occupy the Economy’

University of Massachusetts at Amherst emeritus economics professor Richard Wolff speaks about some of the roots of, and solutions to, the economic inequality that’s finally being acknowledged On OWS: It’s clearly a very, very popular movement right from the beginning, thereby giving the lie to those had felt, and thought and said that there’s no left wing base in the Continue Reading

For @MicahBales (and me),”Time to Occupy the Church”

It is something that should cause those of us who consider ourselves to be “in the church” to be simultaneously embarassed and hopeful.  Embarassed because it seems to many of us that the church should be have been conscious and mobilized about these issues long ago (it’s been in motion for 30 years,  and I was,  of all places,  in Continue Reading

CNNs Erickson: Obama “Claiming” To Be A Christian, “Chose To Pervert Gods Word” | Media Matters for America

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The President this week chose to pervert God’s Word to make the case for a tax increase, but he also chose to ignore God’s word on life and is ordering Christians, while he claims to be one, to violate their Christian conscience on abortion — requiring Christian organizations to provide health insurance that will cover the cost of drugs that Continue Reading

Bill Maher now apparently tired of #OWS 2-3-12. My responses.

This is really disappointing to see and hear.  I saw tweets to this effect last night,  that Maher had bad mouthed #OWS,  and now I heard  it on this video (and read the transcript) ….Just as Bill tends to get a bit cyncial and testy about religion,  he’s going to say what he thinks at just about any moment. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/02/04/bill_maher_tells_occupy_protesters_to_get_a_job.html Wes Continue Reading

That elusive #SocialGraph in a theological context #WiredChurch #theoblogical

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What has bothered me for years,  before I even knew of “Social Graph”,  which came into usage with the name given it by Facebook,  is how the technological community in the church has stopped thinking theologically when it comes to technology.  In their embrace and efforts to be relevant and resist the accusations that the church is anti-technological,  they (we) Continue Reading

A message for Eric Watson #occupynashville #OWS

It was painful listening to the condescending,  ignorant characterizations of the Tennessee lawmakers on Wednesday, late afternoon.  Particularly Eric Watson,  who mouthed the same elitist disdain for the expression of free speech and expression of outrage that we have been getting from the likes of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.  Consider this: state Rep. Eric Watson, R-Cleveland,  whose office at Continue Reading