October 31, 2008
You're doing it wrong
Posted by pete at October 31, 2008 12:54 PMAnd by "it," I mean "practicing Christianity:"
Plunging world stock markets have produced reactions from bewilderment to terror among traders, but one group believes the financial crisis requires an altogether different response -- prayer.
On the anniversary of the 1929 Wall Street Crash, a cross-denominational 100-strong group of Christians united in City Temple Church in London's financial district on Wednesday to pray for an end to market instability and ask God that economies should not enter a 1930s-style Great Depression.
Carrying a banner depicting a huge lion -- symbolising the biblical Lion of Judah, or Jesus -- with one paw on a bull and other on a bear, the group then headed to the London Stock Exchange, epicentre of the UK's quaking financial system.
Awesome. And then there's this group practicing a "laying on hands" on that big ass Wall Street bull. I'm no big city Bible scholar, but this seems...off, somehow.
Might want to do some brushing up on that first Commandment. And then there's this:
Dramatic examples of people whose life has been changed by a religious experience directly linked to the credit crisis are so far lacking, but religious groups are starting to see new interest from those on the outside.
St Peter's Barge, a floating church based near the gleaming towers of the Canary Wharf district's once-mighty banks, says it has seen more new faces at lunchtime talks aimed at bankers and other professionals on topics such as the credit crisis.
Check please.
Might want to do some brushing up on that first Commandment.
Yeah! I remember Edward G. Robinson and others got into some shit for that while Charlton Heston was up the mountain with some special effects.