Today In WTF: Using The Bible To Battle Obama

By Karl Klockars in News on Nov 18, 2009 9:15PM

Rachel Maddow talked about it last night. Eric Zorn's discussing it today. And in case you haven't seen it from those two yet, allow us to be the first to bring you the newest potential threat on the life of the President of the United States of America - direct from the pages of the Bible.

Now, there's no shortage of vile stuff floating around the interwebs about our president, but using a snippet of scripture from the book of Psalms brings things to a new low. It's apparently being spotted on bumper stickers and t-shirts (although all we've found thus far is just graphics), and some believe that conservative Christians are using the verse, pulled from Psalm 109, to call for the death of the President. You be the judge:

8 May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.

The Psalm goes on:

9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

10 May his children be wandering beggars;
may they be driven [d] from their ruined homes.

Nice stuff, huh?

It's been a while since we pored through the pages of oh, say, Leviticus, but for anyone out there who's considering making this particular plea to the Christian God of your choice, keep in mind that in between for praying for death, you've got a lot of work to do based on the Old Testament laws. Keeping "impure" women separate from men, animal sacrifice, managing unclean lepers, killing adulterers and kids that insult their parents and so on - it's hard to imagine having the time to work through to deity-based death requests.

You can read the whole psalm here, but if Obama is considering a rebuttal prayer of his own, allow us to suggest verse 29 from the very same psalm: "Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame; and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle."