“Let his posterity be cut off, and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.”
So, in case you missed it, a sitting U.S. senator just asked an audience to pray a death curse to the president.
Yeah. Trump fits right in.
— Jamelle Bouie
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Not that the Lord hasn’t been answering prayers
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June 10th, 2016 at 4:36PM
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June 11th, 2016 at 4:13PM
For anyone who takes prayer seriously (and I assume Sen. Perdue does), that’s really shocking (though apparently not new, according to the article; obviously, I move in rather different Christian circles). Good thing God gets to decide which prayers to answer (and how). But still, either he means it, which is horrifying, or, as the article suggests, he doesn’t really mean it, which in my book violates at least one or two of the ten commandments, in spirit if not in letter.
To top it off, he appears to have offered this particular prayer on the day Malia Obama graduated from high school.
And yes, somehow this does seem to connect to Trump, even though I’m pretty sure if you handed Trump a Christian Bible, he’d have to check the index/alphabetical listing to find the book of Psalms (most of us who consult such volumes regularly just open to approximately the middle and shuffle back or forth a bit if necessary; barring Genesis and Revelation, it’s usually the easiest book to find).
Maybe Trump himself is a curse sent in response to such sacreligious use of God’s word and God’s name? I’m not much for that kind of thinking, but it’s sure tempting in this case.
June 12th, 2016 at 9:24AM
Contingent Cassandra: When Republicans show their hand, I tend not to mind as long as God isn’t invoked. So when that nut from South Carolina shrieked YOU LIE during one of Obama’s speeches to Congress, I just laughed like everyone else. Couching your loathing in religious language/prayer is, however, sociopathic.