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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Praying For His Death

Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal made me think about Voltaire again. In an email to supporters, O'Neal wrote

At last — I can honestly voice a Biblical prayer for our president! Look it up — it is word for word! Let us all bow our heads and pray. Brothers and Sisters, can I get an AMEN? AMEN!!!!!!

and then recommended Psalm 109:8 which reads

Let his days be few; and let another take his office

This verse is followed by this, in Psalm 109:9

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. 

As Volatire astutely noted, religious intolerance always leads to fanaticism and savage, inhuman action.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.

— Matthew 6:10

Is it wrong to pray that God enforce justice?

What kind of man was David asking God to deal with? This:

Be not silent, O God of my praise!
For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me,
speaking against me with lying tongues.
They encircle me with words of hate,
and attack me without cause.
In return for my love they accuse me,
but I give myself to prayer.
So they reward me evil for good,
and hatred for my love.

— Psalms 109:1–5

Are you saying Obama is a man like this? If he isn't, then what are you worrying about? Either way, why is it wrong to ask God to act against evil? He is the righteous judge after all.

Juris Imprudent said...

You have more in common with the Speaker than I do. I would be happy to have all Christian bullshit removed from the law.