Psalm 109:8--A Prayer for Obama or Ourselves?
During the last few days, Psalm 109:8, a Bible verse in the form of a "prayer for Obama," has topped the Google trends chart: "May his days be few; may another take his office." Evidently, a bumper sticker emblazoned with this verse has popped up in various parts of the country. It is a sort of right-wing Christian equivalent to the old "01.20.09" stickers looking forward to the end of the Bush era.
It was, most likely, intended as a joke. But it isn't really very funny. Especially since the next verse reads, "May his children be orphans, and his wife a widow." The passage goes on the same way--asking God to pulverize this poor fellow--that he lose all his worldly goods, that his orphans be abandoned, that his father be remembered as a sinner, and finally, that "his memory be cut off from the earth."
Thus, the "Prayer for Obama," does more than anticipate that he leaves office; it entreats God to destroy the president.
The trite-white-right wing are just simply sick people. This being America, though, we gotta tolerate 'em.
O'ya...this being a beatitudes-blog, how about "Blessed are the tolerant, WWJD"
There was a phrase in our Old Testament reading for Nov 22 that voices my thanksgiving for Obama's leadership:
One who rules over people justly,
ruling in the fear of God,
is like the light of morning,
like the sun rising on a cloudless morning,
gleaming from the rain on the grassy land.
Is not my house like this with God?
For he has made with me an everlasting covenant,
ordered in all things and secure. 2 Samuel:23