Slog - Comments on The Golden Calf's All Growed Up http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up Wonkette just put up this amazing picture: Apparently, some Christians are on Wall Street, putting their hands on and praying over a large brass bull in the hopes that God will save the world's economy and transform the United States from a bull and bear economy to a lion (of God) economy. Do these people actually read the book they're supposed to be following?... Copyright 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:17:14 -0800 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:16:19 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by reverend dr dj riz wow..wow..wow

]]> reverend dr dj riz http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185885 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185885 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:20:40 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe False idol! Pagans!

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185887 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185887 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:21:26 -0800 Comment by angelika yeah whatever happened to thou shalt have no other gods before me?
hypocritical much?

]]> angelika http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185890 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185890 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:22:26 -0800 Comment by Cato the Younger Younger If only the "god" they claim to worship was real. It could make for some great smiting material!!!

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185892 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185892 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:22:52 -0800 Comment by Julie in Chicago I am starting a mental collection of my favorite photographs that represent this year. This one is in there for sure (along with this one that was recently posted).

]]> Julie in Chicago http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185895 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185895 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:24:41 -0800 Comment by Chris B I think I saw this movie. The ending was pretty cool, though...

]]> Chris B http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185897 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185897 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:24:54 -0800 Comment by xu Who won Hump 4? Did I miss the announcement?

]]> xu http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185898 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185898 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:24:57 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave With god on their side the markets can only go down now. Muahahahhaha!

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185900 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185900 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:26:54 -0800 Comment by The Lord If only the evil secularists in new york would have allowed my 10 commandments to be displayed in their schools...

]]> The Lord http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185914 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185914 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:34:31 -0800 Comment by ellarosa when i see things like this and the african witch doctor who blesses "good xtian" sarah palin, i begin to think the answer to you question is "no."

]]> ellarosa http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185919 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185919 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:36:37 -0800 Comment by vooodooo84 Mooby save me! and can i get a egga-mooby-muffin?

]]> vooodooo84 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185923 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185923 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:37:36 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo It'd work better if they performed a couple sacrifices to it.

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185928 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185928 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:40:00 -0800 Comment by Bob That bull has some big brass balls, if I remember correctly from my last visit. I wonder which lucky one got to cup 'em?

]]> Bob http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185931 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185931 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:41:36 -0800 Comment by mike lord-ah!

please make-ah this bull a ah-magical bull-ah.

we need to make more money, lord-ah

so we can keepeth it for ourselves-ah

and not help the poor and needy as we were commanded-ah.

in your name we blaspheme,

amen

]]> mike http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185936 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185936 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:43:17 -0800 Comment by Dara No way. ImprovAnywhere. Gotta be. I mean, yeah, there's a lot of praying going on on Wall Street right now, but c'mon.

]]> Dara http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185941 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185941 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:45:33 -0800 Comment by Joe This is just the absolute height of comedy. Fake Christians worshipping a fake idol.

]]> Joe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185947 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185947 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:46:34 -0800 Comment by Jesse @1: ditto

]]> Jesse http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185950 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185950 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:46:43 -0800 Comment by Carollani Wow. I love crazy Christians and their ignorant hi jinx.

]]> Carollani http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185967 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185967 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:52:56 -0800 Comment by Mary T The Lord will smite them for their worship of false idols.

"Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. 8 They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf."

Exodus 32:7

]]> Mary T http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185971 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185971 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:54:30 -0800 Comment by COMTE It's a BRASS BULL, NOT a GOLDEN CALF!

Apparently, that makes all the difference...

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185972 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185972 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:54:33 -0800 Comment by backslider In response to your question, yes, they read the bible. They just have a difficulty comprehending it.

The people praying over the Wall Street bull are a particularly absurd brand of Christian. My experience with them has, unfortunately, been extensive. As a result, I've come to notice that those drawn to this type of Christianity are precisely the ones who need it most. Therefore, the people least capable of independent, perceptive thought are left to interpret a book that they have neither the basis for, nor the interest in, truly understanding. For a Christian of this type to ever really understand "God" would not only be a miracle, but a sin.

It is no surprise that they continually find entertaining ways of humiliating themselves. Their very salvation requires it. They begin as hypocrites and end as self-righteous hypocrites. Expecting them to either make sense, or to realize for themselves why they make no sense, is an endlessly infuriating position.

]]> backslider http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185979 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185979 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:56:34 -0800 Comment by Vince I think that would be a nice altar. It sure would get more people in church.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185982 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1185982 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:57:45 -0800 Comment by Dougsf Someone needs to go down there dressed as Moses and get to lecturin'.

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186023 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186023 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:13:06 -0800 Comment by inkweary Bull, indeed.

]]> inkweary http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186030 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186030 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:15:44 -0800 Comment by Fnarf I'll betcha you could persuade them it was solid gold pretty easily. Maybe a bunch of them could get arrested for trying to carve chunks off of it.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186040 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186040 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:19:12 -0800 Comment by Tabitha I think this photo of the bull pooping me out is much more appropiate.

]]> Tabitha http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186049 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186049 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:22:52 -0800 Comment by Tabitha Sorry here is the photo!

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=152485&l=ff34f&id=1020111006

]]> Tabitha http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186054 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186054 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:23:58 -0800 Comment by Catalina Vel-DuRay It's a delicate balance, isn't it? On the one hand, we need stupid people to buy the crap that we (as a society) sell. Without them, the economy would grind to a halt, and we'd have to start producing non-crap, and that cuts into the bottom line.

But we can't let it get to a point where we have too many stupid people, or we get situations like this.

What to do?

]]> Catalina Vel-DuRay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186157 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186157 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:32:24 -0800 Comment by Greg Mr. Constant, I know Christians, and these people are no Christians.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186321 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186321 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:57:58 -0800 Comment by some_dude it may work but i think praying on a golden calf may seem a bit....ironic?

]]> some_dude http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186333 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186333 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:03:32 -0800 Comment by whatevernevermind For the record, and as someone who was raised among hellfire-and-brimstone fundies and evangelicals (albeit infinitely SANER ones than these), I just want to say that I am beyond horrified and am absolutely convinced that the world has finally gone completely insane. I have never known a religious person who would remotely consider that anything even looking like idol worship was an okay thing. This is so far beyond nuts, it's scary.

]]> whatevernevermind http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186336 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186336 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:04:28 -0800 Comment by laterite Hilarious, absolutely hilarious!

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186365 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186365 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:25:29 -0800 Comment by Womyn2me Is this a screenshot from the orgy scene in The Ten Commandments?

]]> Womyn2me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186498 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186498 Money Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:16:41 -0800 Comment by bill wesley So they are asking God to fix what they broke, why don't they fix it themselves, are they too lazy? why do people always ask God to do the work to which they themselves have been assigned, God dosen't run the economy, WE DO! These same people are also always trying to do Gods work for him, passing judgments on otheres, which is Gods domain, fighting nonbelivers/unbleievers/heratics should be easy for God, why not lay off, stand back and let God act as his own henchman, if he's really all powerfull what does he need all these people for?

]]> bill wesley http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186656 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1186656 Money Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:19:01 -0800 Comment by Frank Forum Can someone please inform the author that praying does not make them Christians? The act these people are doing is not a Christian act so clearly these people are not Christians no matter what they or the author says.

]]> Frank Forum http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1187830 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1187830 Money Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:31:56 -0800 Comment by CosaMostro They could do a lot better for the market by dropping all their savings into a mutual fund.

Only, I hope they don't. Because that would also be the financially savvy thing to do right now, and I can't stand the thought of them prospering.

]]> CosaMostro http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1187868 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1187868 Money Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:04:53 -0800 Comment by Blain "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ." -- Mahatma Gandhi

]]> Blain http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1187880 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_golden_calfs_all_growed_up#c1187880 Money Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:16:19 -0800