Should Christians join the Occupiers?
A sidebar running below a cable news show recently asked "Would Jesus Be an Occupier?" Anyone who understands Jesus teaching understands that he did not share the values of the Occupiers. Let's compare what the occupiers are advocating with Jesus' teaching and that of his earliest followers. It is hard to determine exactly what the Occupiers are advocating, except they are against Wall Street "greed." Which they believe was represented by AIG and Morgan Stern and other companies that got bailouts as a result of the housing market collapse of 2007. What they do not understand is that Congress created organizations like Freddie Mae and Fannie Mac and required banks to make bad loans. The reason the companies asked for Federal money was that they were implementing Federal banking policy and believed the tax payers should bail them out. This is not to say I agree the bailouts were appropriate see AIG It May Be Time for a Tea Party . I advocated that the economy