Occupy the Church

Hours after the forced eviction of #OWS protestors in Zuccotti Park, church leaders called on people of faith to share resources with the OWS movement. Rev. Michael Ellick of Judson Memorial Church talks with Laura Flanders of GRITtv.

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News & Politics

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• OWS
• Occupy Wall St
• faith
• church
• Ellick
• Flanders
• Judson
• Zuccotti Park

[purpurpledog8]

Yep. Jesus didn't like the moneychangers, either.

[juliefaye78]

i'm not religious personally but love what this guy has to say. the support of any community space that has, as he's saying, volunteers - kitchens - and the like, will be a welcome piece of help for OWS. Good luck you guys!

[MrDonneiDarko]

@purpurpledog8 I doubt these people care about the church of christ.

more likely they want to turn the church into a soup kitchen or a mosque. by force of course because war is peace. amirite?

[dalecs47]

@allaboutdatGDA Obviously it has not happened to you, I hope that it never does. Having your whole life destroyed so that the owners of some large corporation can get even richer is a terrible experience and no matter how hard you try at living right, it will make no difference. The point of my original comment was that ultimately churches will not help the O.W.S. cause because religion is mostly owned by the 1% who use it to fool people into believing the corporatist lies. Good luck.

[allaboutdatGDA]

@dalecs47 I guess at that point I have to live on welfare,blame big business and shit in the park with everybody else like me who doesn't want to look for another dickhead job like working at walmart. those are jobs, nobody grows up saying they want to work at walmart. you grow up working at a job to eventually work in a career. the point is you keep looking for work.

[dalecs47]

@allaboutdatGDA They should exact change by living the “right way”? Ok, fair enough. Sounds like you work hard, have a reasonably good job and doing well enough. Suppose in order to increase profits Wall Mart orders your company to lay off all American workers and relocate business activities in China. A year from now you have no money, you lose your home, pension, everything. There are no replacement jobs in your area. What then?

[allaboutdatGDA]

@dalecs47 can't say i can prove you wrong. what i can say is that most Evangelicals, like myself, are conservatives who work for a living. chances are that we would not approve of these people trying to wreck the capitalist structure that gets us out of bed each day to work for a purpose. their protest will not affect "greed", it is going to be with us no matter what. enact change by living the right way.

[WrathoftheGoddess]

Jesus disapproved of the greedy property owners too, so it makes sense.

[nochoice101]

This man has a good idea. Cultivation of space for community...I love it.

[ivlfounder]

@dalecs47

Since a Catholic and a Methodist Bishop openly supported the spring protests in Madison within 24 hours of their start you are obviously wrong.

[GreytMuse]

Sanctuary offered, in the old sense of the word. :) I expect the Unitarians and United Church of Christ to step up as well. It fits with their theologies to support social justice.