{"id":1149,"date":"2011-10-17T18:06:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T22:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2011-10-17T18:11:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T22:11:23","slug":"occupy-wall-street-protests-preparing-for-the-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/10\/occupy-wall-street-protests-preparing-for-the-apocalypse.html","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Wall Street Protests: Preparing for the Apocalypse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With<a href=\"http:\/\/uscmediareligion.org\/theScoop\/456\/Fool-Me-Once%E2%80%A6\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Harold Camping&#8217;s new definitely\/maybe apocalypse <\/a>rescheduled for this Friday, perhaps the Occupy Wall Street crowd&#8217;s contagious pessimism has just been preparing\u00a0humanity for the end of days? Any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chabad.org\/parshah\/article_cdo\/aid\/860977\/jewish\/Was-Aaron-responsible-for-the-Golden-Calf.htm\" target=\"_blank\">gold enthusiasts reported deathly ill from a mysterious plague <\/a>yet?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/files\/2011\/10\/occupy-seattle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1153\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/70\/2011\/10\/occupy-seattle-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a>Either way, there&#8217;s a growing\u00a0religious component (boosted by the timing of this year&#8217;s Jewish high holidays) to\u00a0this\u00a0anti-capitalism movement, which began\u00a0in New York a\u00a0month ago today and have since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/10\/07\/us-wallstreet-protests-idUSTRE7945JB20111007\" target=\"_blank\">spread west to Seattle <\/a>and east to Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Some\u00a0faith-related links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/headlines\/religious-groups-join-wall-street-protests\/9730\/\" target=\"_blank\">Religious Groups Join Wall Street Protests<\/a> (Religion &amp; Ethics Newsweekly)<\/li>\n<li>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/2011\/10\/occupying-a-religious-space-on-wall-street\/\" target=\"_blank\">Occupying a Religion Space on Wall Street<\/a> (GetReligion)<\/li>\n<li>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/politics\/5268\/god_dissolves_into_the_occupy_movement\/\">God Dissolves Into the Occupy Movement <\/a>(Religion Dispatches)<\/li>\n<li>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2011\/octoberweb-only\/occupy-wall-st.html\" target=\"_blank\">Prophets Against Profits? What Occupy Wall Street Misses <\/a>(Christianity Today)<\/li>\n<li>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/articles\/144298\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Occupy Judaism Is A Turning Point <\/a>(The Jewish Daily Forward)<\/li>\n<li>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/religion.lohudblogs.com\/2011\/10\/14\/does-occupy-wall-street-have-religious-dimensions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Does Occupy Wall Street Have A Religion Dimension? <\/a>(Bloggingg Religiously)<\/li>\n<li>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/occupy_wall_street\/2011\/10\/12\/2011-10-12_faith_leaders_join_call_of_wall_st_protesters.html\" target=\"_blank\">Faith Leaders Join Call of Occupy Wall Street Protesters <\/a>(New York Daily News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/10\/occupy-wall-street-protests-preparing-for-the-apocalypse.html#post\" target=\"_blank\">Comments section below<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to\u00a0<strong>subscribe to Belief Beat\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to\u00a0<\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With\u00a0Harold Camping&#8217;s new definitely\/maybe apocalypse rescheduled for this Friday, perhaps the Occupy Wall Street crowd&#8217;s contagious pessimism has just been preparing\u00a0humanity for the end of days? Any gold enthusiasts reported deathly ill from a mysterious plague yet? Either way, there&#8217;s a growing\u00a0religious component (boosted by the timing of this year&#8217;s Jewish high holidays) to\u00a0this\u00a0anti-capitalism movement,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[192,14,219,496,497,217,196,26,28,499,498],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-apocalypse","tag-christianity","tag-doomsday","tag-end-of-days","tag-end-times","tag-family-radio","tag-harold-camping","tag-jews","tag-judaism","tag-occupy-seattle","tag-occupy-wall-street"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Occupy Wall Street Protests: Preparing for the Apocalypse? - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/10\/occupy-wall-street-protests-preparing-for-the-apocalypse.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Occupy Wall Street Protests: Preparing for the Apocalypse? - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With\u00a0Harold Camping&#8217;s new definitely\/maybe apocalypse rescheduled for this Friday, perhaps the Occupy Wall Street crowd&#8217;s contagious pessimism has just been preparing\u00a0humanity for the end of days? 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