Pray for Obama

I doubt is those sold well.
People were wearing shirts and hats in support of their new President.

"Whether it's clever, funny or downright dangerous is a matter of opinion. Clearly, though, it's certainly not very nice.

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...er-for-obama/1

and i am happy to report, cafepress is removing and banning the items in question.

"General consensus has proven that the design does point to a broader interpretation of the Psalm and thus has been deemed inappropriate for sale at CafePress."

http://gawker.com/5409609/cafepress-is-no-longer-officially-okay-with-praying-for-obamas-death


leslie

Well, good. But I just got that off cafepress a few minutes ago. They'd better hurry.

steph

the gawker.com link works now, if you care to read it.

leslie

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.

Psalm 109 belongs to a special category of the psalms known as “imprecatory” prayers — it is a lament in the form of petition to destroy one’s enemies. It is the personal prayer of an individual, someone who has been dealt an injustice by another (usually more powerful) person. The words of Psalm 109 are those of deep agony, the longings of a victim for retribution and justice. This psalm is considered one of the most difficult of all the psalms — full of violent images of vengeance and death. Many a biblical critic has struggled with its words, and not a few — including Roman Catholic and mainline Protestant theologians — recommend it not be used in public worship, much less as a bumper-sticker political slogan.