It’s the Year of the Protester: Would Santa Occupy? How About Mother Teresa?

It’s the Year of the Protester: Would Santa Occupy? How About Mother Teresa?

"Elsewhere on the interwebs, people have considered which religious figures would or would not be joining the drum circle at their local Occupy encampment, were they alive today. Would Jesus? (No! says Tony Perkins. Yes! says the Archbishop of Canterbury.) What about Gandhi? (Ian Desai says Gandhi would admire the Occupiers’ energy but fundamentally disagree with their tactics. Not so fast, says RD regular Ira Chernus.)

But what about other religious figures? Surely we can also hypothesize about whether they’d have supported the Occupy movement? In a spirit of nerdy parlor-game fun more than serious analysis, I’ve compiled my own hypotheses, sticking within my own tradition of Christianity since it’s the one I know best and since I don’t like plundering other people’s belief systems for levity. But I'm eager to hear suggestions."

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