Thursday, October 30, 2008

My Irony Meter Just Exploded

I know it's become de riguer for the religious types to try and solve all national crises with prayer - keep trying, it might work eventually! - but this one really takes the cake (via PZ):

Did you know that some Christian dingbat has dubbed today the 'Day of Prayer for the World’s Economies?' Well here they are, at the Wall Street bull statue thing, praying to Jesus for money. The dingbat has explained, 'We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the bull on Wall Street to ask God to begin a shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the ‘Lion’s Market,’ or God’s control over the economic systems.'
Emphasis mine. That would be, you know, this golden beauty:


Photo by Christopher Chan.

So the Christians got together and prayed in front of an oversized golden calf (and laid on some hands, too!). Does the Bible have something to say about golden calves? Something not too flattering?

Talk about fail on a Biblical scale!

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