However, in an posted by the church earlier this week challenged Anonymous to "Bring It."

"Anonymous is warring with God; very stupid for little boys claiming to be so smart," the letter noted.

Anonymous, which prefers being referred to as a collective rather than as a group, is comprised of an unknown number of volunteer hackers operating largely without a central command or leader.

The collective has been in the news quite a bit recently, most notably for its aafter the security firm's CEO, Aaron Barr, said he had discovered the identities of several Anonymous members and planned to disclose them at RSA Conference in San Francisco earlier this month.

Prior to those attacks, Anonymous members have been associated with several distributed denial of service attacks most recently in connection with the WikiLeaks disclosures and the civil unrest in Egypt and elsewhere.