October 21, 2011 01:15 AM UTC

Family Research Council: Pray For Occupy Wall Street To "Backfire"

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• by: Colorado Pols

Pretty remarkable stuff–from yesterday’s Family Research Council “Prayer Team” alert, via Scot Kersgaard of the Colorado Independent and Right Wing Watch:

Days of Rage, Wall Street Occupation — The odd collection of left wing activists, street people, Hollywood celebrities and progressive publicity seekers camping out on Wall Street continues to grow, reportedly expanding to 250 cities across America and still more around the world. The group has adopted President Obama’s job’s mantra, blaming the upper 5% of Americans — “millionaires and billionaires” for not doing their fair share to help them get jobs. Experts say the group should be protesting at the White House. The Wall Street Journal suggests “they might start by considering what happens to an economy when the White House decides to make pinatas out of the financial-services industry (roughly 6%…of U.S. GDP), the energy industry (about 7.5% of GDP…)…and …various other alleged malefactors of wealth.”

May God quell the anger of this sad collage of people, stirred up by radical ideologues, encouraged by the press and even misguided officials, and cause it to fizzle. May it backfire as some experts predict, and may God send believers to bring Good News to these people and lead many to faith and peace in Christ! (Ps 2:1 ff; 76:1-12; Pr 29:8-16; Hos 4:6; Mt 5:21-22; Mk 6:34; Jn 10:10-16; Jas 1:20) [Pols emphasis]

Kersgaard notes that an awful lot of Christians and other people of faith seem to be supporting, and even participating in the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City and elsewhere–citing this NY1 report just as one example:

Chanting as they marched around the perimeter of Zuccotti Park, an interfaith coalition of Muslims, Jews and Christians carried a golden reproduction of the “Wall Street” bull, symbolizing greed and the biblical “golden calf” that was idolized as a false god.

So as you can see, there are religious arguments on both sides. But this mobilization from the Family Research Council to their army of “prayer warriors” to make the Occupy Wall Street protests “fizzle” and “backfire,” particularly the nervous lead-in to induce said “prayer warrior” army to beseech the Almighty God on behalf of the GDP contribution by the financial services industry, struck us as perhaps a bit sacrilegious.

Though not really a new thing, historically speaking we guess.