[Occupy] seized attention, won friends, enlivened the demoralized, stirred up theater, engaged wits, penetrated the media as a big cultural and political fact, influenced some people, antagonized others (not least America’s increasingly militarized police forces and mayors who feared political backlash if they let the encampments go on), and prompted intense conversation not only about the financial crisis and about causes of and remedies for the deep economic affliction, and about larger, chronic injustices, but about what ought to be done not only by political leaders but by everyone within earshot.”

Gitlin, Todd (2012-05-01). Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street (Kindle Locations 654-658). Harper Collins, Inc.. Kindle Edition.

This book is a great narrative. Intelligent, level-headed, and intensely radical/counter-cultural, I am soaking it up. And the closing phrase there, “what ought to be done not only by political leaders but by everyone within earshot” is a rallying cry for me, a child of the mainline church (including the Southern Baptists when they were still one of those mainline denominations before their violent lurch to the right), to bring this to the table of the mainline denominations, where it is presently buried pages deep , if at all, in the “specialty” ministries stories, and nowhere to be seen on the front pages of denominaitonal websites. That latter fact just drives me nuts. Talk about your rendering a denomination irrelevant. To sideline and “place a bushel over” such matters which weigh so heavily on so many in your own membership is tantamount to blasphemy. It is literally giving God and religious communities a bad name, which is the literal meaning of “blasphemy”. In today’s parlance, it might be an accurate translation to call it BULLSHIT.