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The Birth of American Taliban –Is praying for death of the sitting President crossing a line?

Inna Hardison-ha media group Design, Printing, Web (ha media group) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:43:49 -0600

I know this isn't news to some of you. I planned on staying silent on this subject, but today, I learned that Café Press decided to reinstate all the merchandise that quotes Psalm 109 under the heading of Pray for Obama. Of course, in a somewhat sneaky manner it only quotes one verse, 109:8, which, in and of itself, does not call for the President's death, but the context of the Psalm it is taken from leave little room for interpretation of the intent of that message.

Here are some more verses from Psalm 109 (as taken from the KJB. Pay close attention to the verses immediately following 109:8, the one quoted on t-shirts and bumper stickers, and see what interpretation you can come up with of the message.

A Cry for Vengeance

Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me:

they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

They compassed me about also with words of hatred;

and fought against me without a cause.

For my love they are my adversaries:

but I give myself unto prayer.

And they have rewarded me evil for good,

and hatred for my love.

Set thou a wicked man over him:

and let Satan stand at his right hand.

When he shall be judged, let him be condemned:

and let his prayer become sin.

Let his days be few;

and let another take his office. Acts 1.20

Let his children be fatherless,

and his wife a widow.

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg:

let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath;

and let the strangers spoil his labor.

Let there be none to extend mercy unto him:

neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.

Let his posterity be cut off;

and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD;

and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Let them be before the LORD continually,

that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Zazzle stated that they will, indeed, remove all merchandise with this Psalm in reference to our president on it, and seem to have stuck to their guns on that, whereas Café Press reneged on their promise to remove said merchandise citing public discourse on the subject, that makes the message on this merchandise fair criticism... They are now reinstating the Pray for Obama items on their store.

I am a huge proponent of Free Speech and all that, but at what point do we cross the Line? At what point should we be scrutinized as if we actually pose a threat to our President's security and that of his family?

And just at what point will those among us who believe in God, and take their faith seriously, speak up against tactics such as these? Because if the religious leadership in this country does not condemn the use of their Religion and Bible to inspire physical destruction of a sitting president, then they acquiesce to the wishes of the very extreme, and are no better than the moderates among Muslims who are all too silent on the subject of using Koran as a weapon.

If they keep silent, then they are, indeed, enabling the American Theocracy.

Your thoughts?

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