And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD. Exodus, Chapter 32.
CBN:
For these and other reasons Cindy is calling for a Day of Prayer for the World’s Economies on Wednesday, October 29, 2008. They are calling for prayer for the stock markets, banks, and financial institutions of the world on the date the stock market crashed in 1929. They are meeting at the New York Stock Exchange, the Federal Reserve Bank, and its 12 principal branches around the US that day.
“We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the bull on Wall Street to ask God to begin a shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the ‘Lion’s Market,’ or God’s control over the economic systems,” she said. “While we do not have the full revelation of all this will entail, we do know that without intercession, economies will crumble.”
I guess we can add the bible to biology, chemistry, and the rest of the book learnin’ our modern Christians have no use for these days.
Shygetz
I almost OD’d on the irony when I saw this earlier today. Now you go and force me into a relapse. Damn you, Cole!
Xecky Gilchrist
Wow, that image really is Golden Calf 2008.
…to ask God to begin a shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the ‘Lion’s Market’…
But remember as C.S. Lewis wrote about 11324987324 times after he ran out of ideas, "He is not a tame Lion".
Montysano (All Hail Marx & Lennon)
Two weeks ago, I was part of the "this is the best election ever" crowd. Little did I know how much more insane the energy could become.
– Joe the Plumber;
– "I ain’t doin’ this for naught";
– "Godless";
– Obama is the secret love child of Malcolm X;
And now this. I’m not sure how much more I can take.
D-Chance.
You didn’t post the juciest quote:
On September 29 last month, the US stock market went down 777 points in one day. Cindy says it was no coincidence that this happened on the first day of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah.
“This is so severe in the economic area because we are facing judgment from the actions, not only for our stance towards Israel, but our blatant sin against Him in passing laws such as the one allowing homosexual marriages,” Cindy said.
Yes. And we thought it was due to those evil poor black folk… it was teh gays all along.
Mr. Poppinfresh
Little-known fact: the 13th commandment actually reads, "Thou shalt not lose more than 30% on a reasonably-diversified 401k portfolio."
smiley
Sorry to go OT but I’ve been wanting to share this. I know that a photograph is only about 1/125th of a second but, damn, the man has a way with kids. The look on the beautiful girl’s face in the last one brought a tear to my eye.
Jon H
"Thou shalt not seek prophecy in past returns, for past returns are no indication of future returns, and are an abomination unto the Lord."
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
I just saw this on Kos and laughed myself silly.
I am absolutely sure there is a God out there now and he is directing this farce to punish the evil ones.
The Christian’s Luciferian makeover is finally complete!
They are evil, I tell you, pure EVIL! And THAT my friends is why they are supporting "Son of Cain".
Montysano (All Hail Marx & Lennon)
@smiley:
No need to be sorry, smiley; I’m with you. Whatever happens next Tuesday, I know two things:
– When you Google "class act", there should be a photo of Obama;
– His campaign will become the gold standard of political campaigns. It’s been an awesome thing to witness.
jake 4 that 1
O rlly?
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full." – Matt. 6:5
dim-jed
Post title=WIN!
Politically Lost
One of the senior correspondents for the daily show…the British one…had a segment the other day covering both campaigns. He interviewed people at both a McCain rally and an Obama rally. And, each side expressed their FEAR that the other would win. I thought it was an excellent comparison because he said something like, that Americans were not divided between the campaigns but were united in fear of each other.
Pondering that in regards to this post…I was trying to take that message to heart. I have no reason to fear. It should make me concerned, even angry, and inspire me work to change that anti-science, reality denying mindset.
At the same time, they scare the shit out of me. A large minority of the theocratic right wants power. They want the awesome power of the United States Government to create their Christian (or, to borrow Sullivan’s coined term, Christianist) Nation.
The GOP has gone nuts and that minority is at the root of it. Hopefully, the last of the honest republicans will figure out how to rid themselves of that coercive and destructive influence. Otherwise that time in the wilderness will not result in a new GOP but more likely a new party.
Delia
Are these the prosperity gospel people? They’ve pretty much been praying to the Golden Calf all along. Good to see they’re finally out in the open. I guess they belong to the Loony Party.
vbdietz
I am appalled at that picture of Christians praying at the feet of the golden calf as it were. It is the perfect illustration of just how far some segments of American Christians have strayed. It is simply astounding that they were able to do that without any sense of embarrassment or misgiving.
Joshau Norton
They just don’t get that whole "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." thingy, do they?
Comrade Fwiffo
Can you make this shit up? Well, I do declare that you cannot.
jake 4 that 1
This is why a McPalin Administration wouldn’t be all laughing at the clowns. They’ll be pointing fingers wildly when all their quarter-assed ideas only make matters worse. Palin has shown no hesitation about working up the WingNuts into a lather and McPOW is too busy getting an "uplift" everytime she walks into the room to stop her so some of us would have to spend four years dodging angry Palindrones looking to make America better by stomping on the Anti-American darkie/kweer/foreign/elitists.
If they get in office, keep your ears pricked for the mighty battle-cry "Deytukurjobs!"
Martin
Ah, yes, and John S. was so quick to call atheists arrogant for refusing to accept that some things are out of our control.
Comrade Bey
@smiley: Ok, now *that* made me cry. Those shining eyes, wow.
Channelling my inner sap here, but that’s what Obama has always been about for me. He gives me hope for the future and makes me want to be a better person and a better citizen.
We really are on the cusp of history.
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Shame to see our youth being hypnotized like that. Surely she will be chanting ‘Death to America!’ within hours.
The Moar You Know
I’m an atheist and I know this ain’t right with the Bible:
They are literally worshipping the golden calf. Were I a true Christian I’d be hiding under my bed and shitting my pants, because according to their book these Philistines are going to bring Hell’s own vengeance down on us all.
Comrade Darkness
@Politically Lost: "I thought it was an excellent comparison because he said something like, that Americans were not divided between the campaigns but were united in fear of each other."
I saw that too, and thought, how silly of me. Then I compared the feared outcomes. The republicans fear Obama will destroy the country by turning it muslim. I fear mccain will destroy the country by eroding the constitution and that seems to be your fear as well, based on your comments. Which fear is rationally based on true past experience and which is a load of freakish bs?
Sirkowski
Ba’al demands more than mere prayers.
Calouste
If Terry Pratchet’s "Small Gods" has any resemblance to reality, that fly that splat on your windscreen this morning is the Christian God.
ThresherK
They can stop. Just please stop.
If their prayer efforts on behalf of the poor (during a 6½-year economic expansion) are any indication, they can best help by not trying to help.
Comrade Darkness
That’s one of my favorite, because it includes that fish symbol they love to stick on the back of their car. (Yes, I know it’s a Roman era hidden X, but honestly, they don’t know that, and really, it’s still also a fish.)
Comrade Darkness
But they are calling on G-d to intercede, um, because G-d can’t decide that for H-mself. I guess. Actually, I don’t know what the h*ll they’re doing. I’ll go with Jake at 10 as an explanation. It’s public performance art.
Sirkowski
I heard the Jesus fish is an Egyptian vagina.
elmo
Jon at 4:05: Made of win. I LOL’d.
I'mRubberYou'reGlue
The damnfoolishness of these people apparently has no limits.
That’s why we oppose them in every way, shape and form.
Cassidy
@CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII:
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)
@Politically Lost:
They are no longer the minority.
Comrade Stuck
I’m no Bible expert, but didn’t Jesus of Nazareth kick some serious Moneychanger ass, back in the day. If I was them wingnuts, I’d hike my ass far away from that Golden Bull.
Cassidy
@Comrade Stuck: Jesus was a lightweight compared to the wrath of God and whatnot. Praying to false idols is "firstborn and locusts" territory.
Comrade Stuck
@Cassidy:
This is why I flunked out of Sunday School.
Cassidy
@Comrade Stuck: Stop what you’re doing and go buy this book. It is much more insightful than the bible., and a lot funnier.
bago
This is wrong on so many levels that it is hilarious. Those manatees writing for the Family Guy could have never have come up with this.
Comrade Darkness
@Sirkowski,
I thought that was the Ankh.
Not that any decent vagina-obsessed peoples wouldn’t have more than one symbol for that. . .
Jeff
@Cassidy: I will second that. Chris Moore rocks.
Xenos
Actually, the fish was the new-age symbol of the day. The dawning of the age of pisces, replacing the age of the ram (Abraham), which followed the age of the bull (I don’t remember what cult that was, but the statue of the golden calf was a specific repudiation of Abraham and Isaac’s ram sacrifice, thus the complete freakout). There is good reason Jesus was walking around the desert speaking in piscine metaphors – it was a direct challenge to those who claimed authority through Abraham, and Jesus’ audience knew this. And also promising to return in the age of the water-carrier (Aquarius).
Cue the theme from Hair..
r€nato
the comments thread at Wonkette is full of win as well. And the headline for this post deserves major props.
God, I’m grinning from ear to ear. So glad I am agnostic. What a bunch of fools. They really don’t read their Bible, do they? It’s an old shtick by now, but Stephen Colbert still asks the ‘gotcha’ question of the occasional GOP politician who favors posting the 10 Commandments in public buildings… ‘what are the 10 Commandments?’
Every single time, they can only name 2 or 3 at most. If any.
Comrade Darkness
@Xenos,
What? I was lied to. In Sunday School, no less.
The bastards.
Added: still looks like an "X" to me…
demimondian
@smiley: The thing which gets me is the bliss on Obama’s face. I know that feeling, when a kid, yours or somebody else’s, throws themselves into your arms and puts their arms around your neck…
demimondian
If I thought that hiding under my bed would do any good, I’d do it.
As it is, the best I can do is pray for forgiveness.
Axe Diesel Palin
fyi, the bull sculpture is actually on Broadway, not Broad St. It is a few blocks from the stock exchange near Bowling Green. NYC trivia: it is in front of 26 Broadway which was he headquarters for Standard Oil built in the 20s.
jrg
Would it be worse if someone in the group realized what they were doing, but did not have the balls to speak up, or if none of these christianists were even aware of the parable of the golden calf?
And we wonder why this country is so fucked up. What a bunch of ignorant mooks.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
@ThresherK: If their prayer efforts on behalf of the poor (during a 6½-year economic expansion) are any indication, they can best help by not trying to help.
Were there any on behalf of the poor, or were they all aimed at condemning homosexuals to an eternity of torture?
Ash Can
These douchenozzles are no more Christian than the man in the fucking moon. The word for them is blasphemers. They’re praying for "the stock markets, banks, and financial institutions of the world"? That’s bullshit. Real Christians would be praying for the people affected by all that crap.
I don’t know which book these assholes are less familiar with, the Bible or the dictionary.
Ash Can
@smiley: And, BTW, that’s the perfect antidote to these pseudo-Christian asshats. The looks on the faces — now that’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout.
Athiest in the Pine Trees
These people don’t believe that man is made in Gods image. Their god is made in their image!
I don’t think the majority of Americans really believe in God anyway in spite of what they say. (Leaving out the Amish Families of Nickel Mines School and the quiet Christians like them)
God said “Thou shall not kill” but so many Christian Americans loudly clamor for the death penalty that it makes me wonder how they can say the Ten commandments are the bedrock of our society and the foundation of our law. They apparently lack the faith to accept God’s omniscient, infallible, and inevitable justice.
The only theory I have come up with is that Christians secretly dislike and resent the “Get out of Hell Free” card that a sinner get’s from Jesus when they repent. Thus the chance of a child killer having a jailhouse repentance and acceptance of Jesus drives them crazy. They just don’t trust God to do the right thing as they see it! Jesus weeps while many (most) Christians really grind their teeth at the story of the prodigal son.
Atheist in the Pine Trees (formerly a bored Lutheran kid)
That One - Cain
What are you now? Firebrand Atheist? Or a guy who just loves tall trees? :D
cain
r€nato
and also for killing as many of them A-rabs as it takes to bring peace to Iraq or whatever country we’re invading this week.
Notorious P.A.T.
Yeah, great f**king segment. Because being afraid that McCain will stay in Iraq for 100 years and hurry along global warming by drilling for oil everywhere he can find it and sink our economy further in the crapper with continued deregulation is EXACTLY the same as being afraid that Barack Obama is a Muslim Communist terrorist who will send the US treasury to Kenya and disband the Army so bin Laden can take us over.
OriGuy
The Soft Parade, The Doors
Mentis Fugit
I’ve called them moneychangers for a long time now.
Hey, does this mean Obama must be . . . Moses?
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
Actually, at the point that the Hebrews worshiped the golden calf in the original story, all they did was create a forty year walk in the desert for themselves.
God answered me today. I was talking about their time in the wilderness on previous threads prior to this, and then this happened. I’m looking forward to their absence from power.
slightly_peeved
These knuckleheads probably think that "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s" is something to do with not paying if your delivery pizza arrives late.
slightly_peeved
@Athiest in the Pine Trees
A point of hope… most of the christians, or at least a significant proportion of them, are voting for the guy who said this:
A president who’s read the constitution, and the bible? And judging from this campaign, Sun Tzu’s Art of War? The republicans must hate that.
Chris Lepore
I have no earth-shattering opinion to impart, just wanted to recognize the win in the title. Even better to find the statue of the bull is actually "… on Braaaawwwdway!!!"
@Calouste: if the "fly on a windscreen" comment was planned with the title in mind, double win.
tom.a
Off topic, except to the blog title, but The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is my all-time favorite Genesis album and I haven’t listened to it in some time, thanks for the reminder!
Axe Diesel Palin
Yeah, the Bull is on Broadway. The sculptor dropped the bull in the middle of the night on Broad St, but the city moved it a couple of blocks over and gave it a spot tourists love. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_Bull
Everyday, there are tons of tourists crowding the sculpture and touching it. Surprisingly (or not), most people follow the tradition of taking one picture in front of the bull, and one picture from behind the bull. Both photos seem to include lots of laying on of hands.