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But if a Christian hides behind the Bible to call for the assassination of the President, that's okay?
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@willwriteforfood: That's it!
I'm going to CafePress a "60 U.S. 393: Taney Was Right" tee-shirt and see what rightwing whackjobs will buy and/or defend it.
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And there are a ton of people like me who don't want to kill all Muslims. I have Pakistani and Iranian Muslim friends whose friends and family are anti-american. It scares me. but they are good people. some people can seperate the 2 things.
i wouldn't get upset over this.
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These people are not representative of what Christianity is about, just like the terrorists from 911 are not representative of what Islam is about.
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I’m glad you’re enjoying the psalms. By the way, these are songs of praise to G-d. So maybe better not deploy them for cheap political statements?
Anyway, did you know they were not written in Jacobean English? Try studying them in the original language some time. A fun challenge!
From,
A Jew
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there you go in Hebrew.
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I was addressing Christians who acknowledge these facts yet remain willfully ignorant about any knowledge—theological, philological, generally critical—to be gained in considering the ramifications of Christianity’s manifold connections to Judaism.
If a Christian believes that the Psalms are holy texts, then he should not use the Psalms for silly political slogans on T-shirts. It is disrespectful to his G-d, it cheapens the texts, and it makes him and his fellows look stupid.
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Actually the founding text of Christianity is the New Testament. The words of Christ himself and his apostles, and those who came after. The Old Testament is generally regarded as killing time until the NT came along - all the prophetic passages are read as predicting Christ and all the vengeful bits read quaintly, like a tv show that's out of date. After all, Christ said (paraphrasing) "I came not to overturn the law, but to finish it". Meaning to end the rule of the Pharisees, and the OT in general.
Of course, this doesn't jibe with a certain world-view, so some people co-opt Christianity itself with rage and anger, bitterness and all those delightful sins which ironically are the diametric opposite of everything Christ himself preached.
So to be quite literal, any religion that preaches anything like this can be accurately described as "anti-Christ".
And you know what, I take a long view of this whole situation. From a certain immediacy this looks like the resurgence of racism. But from another perspective this is its final gasp. The last, most hardened and rancorous groups of racists are being brought out to the surface because they see their world disappearing. Obama's appearance on the American stage has had a profound impact not simply on the rational mind of America, but on the subconscious currents of it. His worth as a symbol is profound, and its purging effect on the population is undeniable, when you see this surge in anger from the worst of the worst. Clinging to their increasingly sinking islands, they call out to each other with crap like this. But it's just the howling of the doomed. Soon they'll just vanish.
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"Psalm 109 is known as "A Cry for Vengeance," which is one of the foundational values of Christianity, along with small-business tax cuts."
That sounds sarcastic to me, not polemical.
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These are but a few of the other things I see happening if the Psalm 109:8 idiots get their wish:
* The Barack Obama dollar coin - to replace (finally) the one dollar bill.
* All that stuff on President Obama's to-do list? Done, within a few months. (see Great Society)
* If they don't hurry, President Biden will get to run for President twice, and serve until 2020.
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Praying to the divine for the candidate you voted against to die is kind of nutty. If there is a god who is in any position of power to do anything, why not use your hotline to the heavens to pray for someone who is one of the several billion people on this planet whose life is truly horrible.
I have no illusions about how well I'm doing. The truth is that there are over 6 billion people worse off than me. If I could make a difference through prayer, it wouldn't be for something petty, like killing a politician.
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Oh wait... I'm not a homicidal maniac.
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