Occupiers Accused of Desecrating Churches in NYC That Took Them In
- Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:16am by
Mike Opelka
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Since Zuccotti Park and New York City ended the overnight stays of the Occupy Wall Street crowds, the protesters have been sleeping anywhere they can. Some have been taken in by local supporters while others have been able to sleep in area churches. However, thanks to serious allegations of vandalism and desecration, the churches have begun to close their doors to the occupiers.
The New York Post reports that the sacred baptismal font of the West Park Presbyterian Church on 86th Street was vandalized just three weeks after an expensive MacBook laptop went missing from the church office.
Rev. Bob Brashear has been hosting upwards of 60 occupiers each night, allowing them to sleep between the pews. But the welcome mat has been rolled up and the pastor has given the protesters two weeks notice to find another place to sleep.
Brashear’s message to the occupiers:
“It was like pissing on the 99%.”
Rabbi Chaim Gruber of Brooklyn also sent a note to the Post claiming that occupiers have defiled a church in the area:
“The Park Slope church housing occupiers was desecrated when an occupier peed inside the building and the pee came in contact with a cross.”
The Blaze has reached out to Rabbie Gruber and Rev. Brashear for additional information on both the vandalized baptismal font and the stolen computer. When we have more information we will add it.
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Comments (131)
wolverine
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:11amSomehow we have to stop these people from breeding we don’t need their DNA in the gene pool
Report Post »american1st
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:53amchimpanzees share 99 percent of there DNA with humans…..
Report Post »sometimes its the one percent that makes all the difference..
smithclar3nc3
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:10amThis is what the democrats look like….
Report Post »The Woot
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:16amYou sound so much like Margaret Sanger.
Report Post »USPATRIOT101
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:41amMany of the occupyers are self proclaimed athiest. Why would you trust them around anything of spiritual value or of any value for that matter?
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 12:40pmWhen are these idiots going to learn that OWS is nobody’s friend? OWS is a group put together with the sole purpose of destablizing society in order to faciliate a far left take over of government. OWS exists solely to further the far left’s agenda. They are not the “99%”. They don’t represent the “everyman”. They represent nothing but the destructive and dangerous far left and it’s agenda…that’s all. An agenda of big government, loss of freedom, state confiscation of wealth and of marxist ideals. Each time a group or enterprise has befriended OWS, they’ve been met with vandalism, aggression and spite. OWS has no friends except the far left from which it springs from. Learn this and understand this. You befriend OWS at your own peril.
Report Post »guntotinsquaw
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 12:57pmWell..If I recall, we did try to warn the churches…I wonder if the churches still think Jesus would have been an Occturd.
Report Post »ClunkerT
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 2:18pmBest thing to happen to these apostate liberal churches!!
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:00pmChurches who trade the TRUTH for the lies of Liberalism are already infected with fecal matter of the mind. OWS is just manifesting it in real life.
Look to yourselves churches of America!
Report Post »bombshelterbob
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:13pmSo, this is Obama’s vision of the future!
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 12:08amWhat a noble sentiment.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 1:44amInvite rats into your home, you will find rat pee in the bread box!!!
Report Post »love the kids
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:08amWow, I,m shocked!!! I never would have guessed.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:14amExactly who would have thought a that bunch of self centtered liberal progressives on drugs would have time to DESECRATE A CHURCH between collecting government checks,rapes,abortions,and bong hits.
Report Post »OutOfTheAether
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 12:03pmColor me surprised. not
Report Post »jasmer
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 8:04amDitto. The sad thing is that for all their education, clergy just don’t seem to grasp what “Progressive” policies progress TOWARDS.
Anyone who has dealt with moonbats from ‘across the barbed wire’ could have seen such desecration and blasphemy coming. Occupier types hate us ‘bitter clingers’ with deep, undying contempt. It’s what they live on.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:04amI have no comments to add, you guys said it all.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:00amAhhh Obama’s “civilian military” is going more viral?? Yeah love how Nanci is distancing herself but STILL insists that the OWS’ers and Tea Party actually have common ground….I’d say there are HUGE differences since Tea Party members have REAL jobs and take showers……
Report Post »Skee
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:59amWhat did the church think was going to happen?
Report Post »Did they think a group of pigs would respect
a church which they have great disdain.
I hope these naive preachers look at this as a
learning experiance.
I don’t think Jesus would want swine rutting around
the alter.
Spirit 72
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:46amInteresting that you use the word “pigs”. Isnt that what they call the police? We DO need to listen to their accusations simply because it is usually verbatim what they are guilty of themselves !
Report Post »fallan
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:53amand when the money changers started selling their goods in the Temple Jesus used a whip to drive them out WHY! because they defiled the house of God.I say the Revs should get the whips out for these defilers of their churches as they will only be following what Jesus did.
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:58amMy take is the churches thought they were doing God’s will, but unfortunately, they( churches ) didn’t see what was coming to them. My hope is these pastors will wake up to the true evil that is right in front of them. At least OWS didn’t throw or burn the bibles.
Report Post »jandersn
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:55amThis reminds me of the story about the kind man that, on a winter night, encounters a shivering snake in the road, asking the man to pick him up and put him under his coat, so the snake might be warm. The man told the snake he was afraid the snake would bite him …as it is the nature of snakes. The man , feeling sorry for the plight of the snake, did pick him up….and was bitten. The man exclaimed..You bit me. The snake replied … Of course I did, you knew what I was when you picked me up. The same for the good men that offered shelter to the people that had been thrown out of the park for stealing, vandalizing and generally living like pigs. The ministers like the kind man on the road knew what they were, or should have, before inviting them into their sanctuaries.
Report Post »Spoutinghorn
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:38amIf you don’t work, you don’t eat – The Bible.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:58amIt must have been a rough lesson for these liberal pastors and rabbis to learn the OWS’s are not liberals, they are communists. As such, they have only disdain for religion.
Report Post »rienheart
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:53pmThey actually did throw bibles and bricks at the Police, from the Rooftops and injured them. OWS equals Total disregard for anything and everyone including themselves. They Rape, Rob, and Kill their own. Go figure.
Report Post »Todd Decker
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 2:15pmI rather doubt they thought they were doing God’s will, but that’s not the point. I would guess these are Religious-Left churches, doing their part to “stand up to the man.” They are now seeing the truth of the Occupy movement, though sadly, I doubt the leaders of these churches will change their political stance.
Report Post »Seede
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:56amMost of these people have never held a job in their lives and are on the payroll of Soros and the Nimrod. Clinton, Pelosi, Reed and the Nimrod simply work for the National Socialists Party and they are the ones who use these stupid freaks to keep the attention away from them. It’s simply smoke and mirrors and we should not be surprised at anything this DC gang of gangsters do. As soon as the useful idiots are not needed it then will go away. The bad part is that Nimrod is trying to turn this into the favor of the Socialist Communists Community Network Democratic movement of which Soros and Buffet run from their plush pent houses. Nothing really new here.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:51am.
I don’t believe it, not the “Salt” of the Earth OWS’ers.
It must have been a TEA Party family that broke-in in the middle of the night………..
Report Post »sy212
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:36amIt‘s Bush’s fault
Report Post »Spirit 72
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:54amIt must have been an IDF death squad.
Actually, I would bet the church’s pastor/rector/priest also is a member of one of the church groups calling for sanctions against Israel and raising money for the poor victim Palesinian terrorist’s families who have been blowing up innocent women and children and rocketing Israel.
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:14pmDarn that Benedict Arnold!
Report Post »lgccac
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:49amEveryone knows the quality and the type of people these occupy morons are. Does this really surprise anyone?
And Obama and his communist friends support these people?
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:47amAs the days of Noah…..When the “enemies unite” against…
Report Post »“Jesus Christ”…Our Lord and Savior… …and his followers.
What side are you going to be standing on ..?
taliesin319
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:25pmThe winning side with Jesus Christ.
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:44amThe churches may have taken them in, being sympathetic–but these people are NOT the same as the homeless–who are the true poor, the true ones in need. The OWS people have an agenda and it’s not one for the betterment of others–but to “make points” and possibly because many of them are greedy and lazy. They’ve shown themselves to be adversaries to people of faith, particularly Christianity (throwing Bibles down at police officers). Maybe this will finally wake people in some churches and other kind hearts as to who these people really are.
As for the OWS people: DUMB. That’s right. Bite the hands that feed you and soon you will not have any who care about you anymore or will lift a finger in your time of need.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:43amSome folks in this country still do not get it. ows has no, I repeat, NO respect for anything or anyone. They are the most selfish group of self-entitled jerks that have come along in my memory, for a long time. They think they deserve everything and can act like babarians and it’s perfectly ok. A more egotistic, wretched group of ignorant, immature,educated idiots would be hard to find.
Report Post »Susie
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:41amI have no sympathy for these churches. Their versions of watered-down Christianity which sides with these street thugs protesting – what ? free food; free education; free drugs; free whatever they can force the hard working law abiding citizens to pay for – that’s what !
Report Post »If you play with the bull, eventually you will get the horns.
AJAYW
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:39amYour dumb enough to let them take over your property don’t be crying about it now.
Report Post »Krazy_Kreepy_Ketchup
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:33amThe true evil of this movement is starting to show its ugly face. Thank God Glenn explains the historic significance of these kinds of actions on his show. Even the homeless in NYC have more respect when churches take them in.
Van Jones spoke in NYC Saturday and it was aired on C-span (thanks to i being spread on twitter) during the playoffs. He praised these people and as the left is now trying to distance themselves, he was embracing them further. His hateful speech was reminicent of Mussolini. He literally tried to divide (his words) “patriots from progressives”. And it was a speech about healthcare to boot. I hope Glenn got it.
The devil continues to laugh and laugh and laugh.
God help us all.
Report Post »Krazy_Kreepy_Ketchup
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:40amThat is thanks to IT being spread on twitter Sunday. I Wish I could take credit for finding it.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:33amKinda like another occupier. . . That social justice thing ain’t so much fun, up close, eh??
Report Post »The Silversmith
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:30amHere’s my surprised face…Wh000aaaaaaa?
Report Post »RichNGadsden
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:38amBest response so far. LOL!
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:53amRofl
Report Post »ThankBabyJesus
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:59amhah :D
Report Post »Arc
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:30amTheir actions were to be expected……..First, they neither knew nor cared why they were OCCUPYING, secondly, their leadership ( if we can go there) was non-existent, thirdly, they were supported by a political party whose heads were precisely where they should be ( up their…..)
Patriots!!!…….Steel yourselves against an opponent who is heartless, foolish, but most definately not brainless( regardless how crooked)
Report Post »lynnissmart
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:30amOMG…..these feces have no respect for anything….period…..the priest should mop the floor with all of them in their own pee and then throw them out on their heads…..disgusting representatives of the admin!
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:29amBHO and Pelosi are proud of these wonderful people.
Report Post »LMW
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:28amI’m sorry but just what did you expect? The OWS group is nothing more then a retread of the hippies from years past. They are the unclean heathens the Bible speaks of. They care for nothing but their own greed and wants.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:32amChristianity is a Safe Haven for Christians!
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:26amWhat do you expect?? These animals (I refuse to acknowledge they are people) have no concept of right or wrong or respect for other people’s property. They have been raised to belive that whatever they want should be theirs and they have a right to take anything they want. I am seriously afraid of what is going to happen when civilized people get tired of the abuses of the anarchists in the movement. It has the potential to be a tragic ending for some….Just sayin’
Report Post »MommyNeedsMoreCoffee
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:25amAnd is anyone surprised when dirtbags act like dirtbags?
As much as some want this to be a noble cause with courageous participants, it’s true nature is constantly being revealed. Really, who could continue to participate in something like this? Either people that have no jobs and no commitments to anyone or anything or people that are being paid to be there.
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:25amNothing really to say here, did you expect a different outcome?
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:25amThese dregs of society are vile indeed and the pestilence needs to be removed wherever they’re found.
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