This week, both the websites of CafePress.com and Zazzle.com decided to stop selling merchandise that featured the latest Christian Republican craze: the slogan “Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8.”
However, they apparently spoke with their God and were instructed to continue selling the hate as it would best teach our children how to hate those that don’t agree with them or aren’t like them (non-white).
Psalm 109:8 reads, “Let his days be few; and let another take his office,” the next line is, “Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow,” suggesting far more violent rhetoric than simple criticism.
Psalm 109 is full of violent images of vengeance and death and as we have witnessed more frequently since the election of George Bush Jr., Christian Republicans are turning more violent and hateful in nature. It seems they are learning from the 9/11 terrorist and are headed towards more extreme behaviors of hate.
We must wonder why Cafe Press would start selling the items after they had first decided they were not appropriate:
Cafe Press:
“The public debate started with questioning if the design was simply intended to be criticism of the President or something much worse. The discourse was surprisingly civil online, given the heated nature of the topic. Given that, and the positions of groups like the ACLU and the Anti-Defamation League, we decided to let the dialogue play out publicly before making a final decision.
Last night we posted a poll on our blog, read through the emails we’ve received and weighed the nature of the calls we’ve received on the topic.In the process we also learned that many of the original designers of the Psalm 109:8 designs had already decided to remove them on their own.
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.”
The results of the Cafe Press poll were 76 percent calling the slogan “overly inflammatory and inappropriate” and 22 percent saying it was fair.
I would bet that an overwhelmingly large number, if not all, of the Tea Baggers love this slogan and they likely believe they are first in line through the gates to heaven. It would appear they believe Jesus supports such hate and lived his life to teach immoral actions against those that don’t agree with him or look like him.
In all my life living in America, I have never personally witnessed so much hate. I realize there has been much hate in our past, but I have never personally witnessed it myself.
Posted by Thaddeus Dombrowski on November 23, 2009 at 10:00 am
“May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.” Funny, I used to pray this regarding George and my prayers were not answered. He still got re-elected in 2004.
Posted by bjjangles on November 23, 2009 at 10:08 am
Hi True,
It is amazing how right wing religious hate mongers twist this verse. It doesn’t surprise me at all. The KKK was bible believing god fearing people as well. Yep the hate is still alive and well today.
Posted by truelogic on November 23, 2009 at 10:24 am
What is sad is if we take it in context, like Christians always tell us we fail to do, then it is even more explicit and hateful. I guess we just need to understand this is how Jesus works through his people.
I would think if George Bush and other Christians that love God so much that they would have volunteered for that war they wanted to badly. It would have given them all much better chances at being with their God. I watched a young republican convention on you tube at that time. The reporter went around speaking to all the young republicans of college age. They were all telling of how it was vitally important that we are in Iraq fighting. How it was our duty and to not support it was Un-American. Then the reporter asked them all “why aren’t you over there serving or why don’t you go sign-up to serve”?
Each and everyone of them had an excuse and many of them appearing to be young and very healthy, claimed to have medical issues, others just stuttered in attempts to develop an excuse on the spot. One guy said that he would love to sign-up but he wasn’t sure it was what God wanted for him. He wonder, what if I have some other skills that can serve God and country better. If he would signup he would not get to use those skills for a better cause. WOW. They have come to make excuses for everything in life, not just their God.
I guess that is why I enjoy reading about and discussing religion.
Posted by truelogic on November 23, 2009 at 10:51 am
Hey, how you doing BJJangles? Hope all is well! Religious types like things in context only when it serves their purpose….like when they are debating against those that don’t support their belief.
The KKK is a great example of the white Christians selling hate and division in the name of God and then excusing it in the name of God. If you don’t agree, then you are not an American…so it appears. You can probably validate that by asking Fox Opinion News..haha or Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly.
You won’t believe this, but I went to school with a guy and we were friends for many years. He was not religious but always fun loving and got along with everyone well throughout middle school and high school and even college. He never had a racist word in all the years I knew him. He took a trip to Europe because he was without work and wanted to experience the world. Months after his trip I sent him an email to see how he was doing. He started telling me how Great the Nazi’s were, how they invented so much, went on about how he found Christ and how the Arian race was God’s chosen race and others needed to be eliminated. I was shocked.
I pointed out to him that he wasn’t, arian as I know his family well and therefore he is not part of that superior race. He avoided that discussion and started to claim Whites were superior.
It truly blows my mind where people come up with such ridiculous stuff. I asked some of his family members about it but they avoided the topic completely. So now I wonder if they avoid it because they agree and don’t want to expose their hate or if they are just ashamed that he suddenly became a racist Christian nazi. I never thought I would personal know a nazi supporter.
Of course he will not talk to me know as I attempted to debate it and understand why in the hell he would make such a change in life. He accused me of attempting to trick him though the debate and that I didn’t really want to understand. However, fact is that I really wanted to understand why he would think as he does. What FACTS sold him on the idea.
I’ve done a search on him lately but can’t find him anywhere….strange stuff.
Posted by bjjangles on November 23, 2009 at 2:15 pm
I’m doing good True.
The key to his evil was, he found christ and how the arian race was gods chosen and THAT OTHERS NEED TO BE ELIMINATED. Hell of a god, but kind of fits into some of the old testament though.
Maybe your old freind got eliminated himself.
Posted by truelogic on November 23, 2009 at 2:52 pm
I am not sure what happened to him. I was going to write his sister and see if there was any news. He really went into this Nazi stuff full steam ahead. Clearly, he is not as intelligent as I had thought. In our discussions, he actually seemed to hate me for not agreeing…hate me in a real way and I had helped him out early in life many times.
Anyway, glad to hear you are doing well. It seems the really bad ones don’t get eliminated until they have done some real harm.