Christian fundamentalists pray to the Wall Street Golden Bull

[Wetzelbill]

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Yeah, last time a group of fundies did this Moses threw some stone tablets at them and proceeded to crack some skulls.

Please, read the bible, you embarrass the rest of us Christians out there who take our faith and the teachings of that great liberal, Jesus Christ, seriously.

[Crowman1979]

1. Fundies only like parts of the bible they can damn people with.

Leviticus and the writings of paul are the only ones that apply.

[Wetzelbill]

2. they sure don't know the Beatitudes I know that

That's kind of a big one, tough to miss, somehow they've done it though.

[WePurrsevere]

6. Very true, IME they skip over most of the Gospels and cherry pick

what they want folks to follow. Most of this type are not people who think for themselves or have any intellectual curiosity.

[proReality]

3. I know a bunch of fundies who don't believe

the ten commandments can be kept and so are not part of their belief system.

So I keep wondering why they carry around such big Bibles, when all they really believe in is the very last section of the book.

[thecrow]

4. They're singing, not praying "to the Wall Street Golden Bull"

Weird? Yes, it is.

[Heather MC]

7. "God bless a america"? Not exactly a secular song. The bible encourages using songs to praise God

This is very Golden Calf Moment.

[Wetzelbill]

9. there are pictures of them with heads down praying

to it too. A few have their hands on it as they pray.

[shotten99]

5. ironic and delicious

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

8. Idolotry

Someone get those folks some brown shirts!

[D23MIURG23]

10. This is fucking weird. Even by my standards.

[goddess40]

11. wasn't there a worshiping of a golden bull in the bible

that caused god to get uppity?

Edit: Summary of the Biblical narrative
The Worship of the Golden Calf by Filippino Lippi (1457–1504)

When Moses went up onto Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments (Exodus 19:20), he left the Israelites for forty days and forty nights (Exodus 24:18). The Israelites feared that he would not return and asked Aaron to make gods for them (Exodus 32:1). The Bible does not note Aaron's opinion of this request, merely that he complied, and gathered up the Israelites' golden earrings. He melted them and constructed the golden calf. The Hebrew word calf can also mean circle. This might seem to indicate that they made a RA symbol rather than cast a calf, which would require a difficult manufacturing process with furnace, beeswax, clay, etc.

Aaron also built an altar before the calf / circle (RA), and the next day, the Israelites made offerings and celebrated.

The Lord told Moses that his people had corrupted themselves, and that he planned to eliminate them, but Moses argued and pleaded that they should be spared (Exodus 32:11); the Lord relented. Moses went down from the mountain, but upon seeing the calf, he too became angry. He threw down the tablets upon which God's law had been written, and broke them. Moses then burnt the golden calf in the fire, ground it to powder, scattered it on water, and forced the Israelites to drink it. He questioned Aaron about the event, who admitted to collecting the gold, throwing it into the fire, and out came a calf. Then Moses gathered the sons of Levi and set them to slaying a large number of adult males (3000). A plague then struck the Israelites. Nevertheless, the Lord stated that he would one day visit the Israelites' sin upon them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Calf

[Wetzelbill]

13. yeah God isn't a big fan of worshipping false idols

There isn't a greater symbol of the Republican party than to see a bunch of so-called Christians worshipping a Golden Bull that symbolizes money and greed. You can't write something that good.

[barack the house]

12. Healing the rraders and rejecting te poor and sick. They may have >

it a bit confused.

[cosmicone]

14. We hindus already worship cows

About time a bunch of christian fundies saw the light <whistling>