WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill police arrested 11 people — many of them members of the clergy — protesting the Republican House budget-cutting plan, a police spokeswoman said.
The group, organized by Rev. Bob Edgar, occupied the center of the historic Rotunda for more than a half hour Thursday, praying and singing until police closed the massive chamber and arrested the group, one by one.
“They were trying to send the message to Congress that the budget cannot be balanced on the backs of the poor, the middle class, or the neediest in society,” Boyle said. She said that Edgar only decided on the action recently, because it appeared likely some sort of legislation would soon come out of Congress that hurts the vulnerable. A police spokeswoman said the clergy members were cooperative, and were charged with demonstrating in the United States Capitol.
Pharisee’s on the right and Saducee’s on the left and each side wants government to impose their brand of Christianity on America. I see a woman arrayed in purple and scarlet sitting upon a scarlet colored beast and on her forehead is written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Amen Steve…i see her too.
Yup, and few there are who are pointing to Christ as the solution to man’s problem. For sure trying to manipulate the government is NOT the solution, but only a path to making things worse by discrediting the church, among other things. Who in their right mind is going to look to a church for spiritual guidance when that church is so entangled in the affairs of this world that it is spiritually bankrupt. And as Steve correctly asserts, it is happening on all sides of the spectrum.
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
How strange. From all of what I hear these days from “church people” one would think that this verse actually reads “If your President …” or “If your government …”. But, of course, what it is REALLY saying is that if His Church would seek Him in time of crisis rather than trying to “fix” their government, things would get better fast.
“Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.”
Are we seeing a monumental failure of faith in our generation or what?
Amen!