# Need snarky comeback for SIL's "prayers for Trump" meme **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 21, 2019, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133 "2019-01-21T01:49:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/41 "2019-01-22T03:59:12Z")
Your SIL views Trump as the great white hope to defend ‘America’ from an onslaught of immigrants, empowered women, empowered black people, muslims, gays, etc. Point out the fact that Jesus was crucified for preaching love and tolerance and that Trump is the living embodiment of the 7 deadly sins. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/42 "2019-01-22T04:11:59Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > Of course this “I’m praying for President \_\_\_\_\_: Psalms 109:8” meme was actually popularized by right-wing evangelicals with respect to President Obama: See this [2009 article from the _Christian Science Monitor_](https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2009/1116/biblical-anti-obama-slogan-use-of-psalm-1098-funny-or-sinister) and [this Snopes page](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/david-perdue-death-prayer-controversy/) about a 2016 incident involving Georgia Senator David Perdue. (It would therefore really only be a fair turn-about to apply it to President Trump.) Yeah–in Googling to see if there was a bumper sticker version of this psalm already, I came across a bunch of anti-Obama bumper stickers, the most innocuous of which was this psalm :). ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/43 "2019-01-22T04:31:55Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > In times like these, Psalm 109:8 brings me great comfort and joy. Somewhat more subtle is > [@1 Kings 21:27-29](#): > > And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. > And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? It will be a test of how well they know their Bible since these verses immediately follow > [@1 Kings 21:19-26](#): > > … Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine. > And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord. Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin. > And of Jezebel also spake the Lord, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat. > But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. (which verses BTW mention two walls!) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/44 "2019-01-22T04:57:26Z")
Can we get Mexico to pray for him instead? ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/45 "2019-01-22T05:17:09Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Your SIL views Trump as the great white hope to defend ‘America’ from an onslaught of immigrants, empowered women, empowered black people, muslims, gays, etc. > > Point out the fact that Jesus was crucified for preaching love and tolerance and that Trump is the living embodiment of the 7 deadly sins. I could, but whenever this is pointed out to the faithful, they always say that God can work through anyone and nobody’s perfect… … but then, they could just as well vote for a serial killer under those criteria, right? ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/46 "2019-01-22T05:18:10Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Can we get Mexico to pray for him instead? Uh oh. It’s another contender! ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/47 "2019-01-22T20:47:06Z")
I used to get pro-life email glurge all the time, usually in the form of “So-and-so had 15 children, was abused by an alcoholic husband, and lived on dead cockroaches. Now she’s pregnant again. Would you recommend she get an abortion? If you said yes, you just killed Mother Theresa/Jonas Salk/some luminary!!” So, I sent back “A 24-year old woman marries her 48-year old uncle. They have 4 children, all who die shortly after childbirth. Now she’s pregnant again. Would you recommend an abortion? If you said no, you just allowed ADOLF HITLER to be born!!” Never got those emails again. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/48 "2019-01-22T21:11:06Z")
If prayer worked - you wouldn’t need to be asking for others to pray. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/49 "2019-01-22T21:54:17Z")
> [@simster](#): > > If prayer worked - you wouldn’t need to be asking for others to pray. ## One of my sister-in-law’s friends posted this in reply to the meme… We are, but apparently it is not working, he continues to make careless mistakes contrary to the word of God. We have free will and God does not force us to do his will. Apparently Trump’s decisions are not guided by the hand of God as the picture shows. To which my SIL replied, “the Bible says keep praying.” ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/50 "2019-01-22T22:06:40Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > I could, but whenever this is pointed out to the faithful, they always say that God can work through anyone and nobody’s perfect… > > … but then, they could just as well vote for a serial killer under those criteria, right? Not always. It’s just the excuse they started using for Trump. Before it was always that we must elect a good Christian leader. I’ve seen pastors who point out “Yes, but God works even more through those who follow him.” God worked through Pharaoh, but he worked even more through Moses. And only to Pharaoh’s ruin, and severely harmed his country, killing off its leader and a significant portion of the army, after killing every firstborn son. God works through bad people, but woe to that person and the people who follow them. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/51 "2019-01-22T22:19:59Z")
Right after Trump was elected, somebody on a different message board asked if I would pray for him. I said I would pray for God to make him a better man. She said she would, too. It’s taking longer than we hoped. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/52 "2019-01-22T22:54:41Z")
FWIW, when it comes to pro-Trump and/or religious garbage, I’ve found that using tools such as “Hide Post,” “Delete Message,” and “Block User” has proven much more satisfying than snark in the long run. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/53 "2019-01-23T00:05:23Z")
I’d probably post something like “Can I get a womp womp?” But something tells me it would fall flat with that audience. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/54 "2019-01-23T00:37:41Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > I could, but whenever this is pointed out to the faithful, they always say that God can work through anyone and nobody’s perfect… > [@AskNott](#): > > Right after Trump was elected, somebody on a different message board asked if I would pray for him. I said I would pray for God to make him a better man. She said she would, too. It’s taking longer than we hoped. I voted for Hillary Clinton. I figured meet God halfway and give him something to work with. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/55 "2019-01-23T00:44:56Z")
Or you could find an appropriate skunk picture and caption it “Let us spray”. ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/56 "2019-01-23T01:10:21Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > ## One of my sister-in-law’s friends posted this in reply to the meme… We are, but apparently it is not working, he continues to make careless mistakes contrary to the word of God. We have free will and God does not force us to do his will. Apparently Trump’s decisions are not guided by the hand of God as the picture shows. > > To which my SIL replied, “the Bible says keep praying.” logic doesn’t work on delusional people ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/57 "2019-01-23T01:50:27Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > Though Psalm 109:8-15 goes farther and is even more appropriate. Just looked it up, I’d go with that. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/58 "2019-01-23T02:24:41Z")
I think a simple _“Bless his heart”_ would work. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/59 "2019-01-23T15:31:44Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > FWIW, when it comes to pro-Trump and/or religious garbage, I’ve found that using tools such as “Hide Post,” “Delete Message,” and “Block User” has proven much more satisfying than snark in the long run. YMMV. Tangentially, a coworker told me yesterday that his new hobby is reporting hate-posts to Facebook, and in one case he reported a hate-post to the poster’s employer (who probably told the poster, ‘Good job!’ since they’re in Georgia). He said that some posters of the hate memes he reported had been suspended. ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133/60 "2019-01-23T17:08:46Z")
Dear Lord, Please give the president, and everyone who exercises state authority, as much of Your wisdom as they can handle, because so many seem to need it so badly. Please give the rest of us wisdom too, so we can choose them well when we have the opportunity. Please help us be strong and brave, so we don’t panic or despair in these weird times. Help us remember our many blessings, as not only do we have so much food that most of us are watching our weight, we have clean water to drink [may be omitted by residents of Flint, MI], to say nothing of beer, wine, juice, milk, and soda; floors that aren’t made out of dirt, an absence of regular plagues and invasions, electricity to serve us, the internet to entertain us more thoroughly than David and Solomon ever dreamed (albeit without the concubines), and, in general, so many conveniences that your ancient servants the Bible speaks of must think we’re a bunch of whiny snowflakes who need to be dope slapped upside the head for ever complaining about anything at all. You rock! Dear Sis, Whereas Trump is far from perfect, much as the depths of the sea are far from the most distant stars; God may have promised to carry His people home from the ends of the earth on eagles’ wings, but you still drive home from the supermarket; If God wants us to so completely rely on Him that we don’t think or do anything to help, why are we even here? He’s busy sustaining the universe, so it’s only polite to meet Him halfway; Let’s trust in the Lord so we don’t freak out, but vote, protest, and agitate as much as we can, with prudence, justice, and love. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-snarky-comeback-for-sils-prayers-for-trump-meme/828133.md?page=4)