A friend spotted this bumper sticker: “Pray for Trump. Psalm 109:8.” Being an alert attorney and law professor, she naturally checked the cite.
The verse is: “Let his days be few and another take his office.”
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I'm not a misanthrope. I just don't feel the same reverence for people they feel for themselves.
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“Truth comes knocking at the door and everybody jumps out the window.” — Bill Cosby
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Amen. 👏🏿
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Wikipedia notes the invocation of this verse by anti-Obama fundamentalist preachers going back to at least 2009, and its use in reference to Tr*mp going back to 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalm_109#Verse_8
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As they say, the Devil can quote Scripture. . .
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