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.
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 :).
Somewhat more subtle is
It will be a test of how well they know their Bible since these verses immediately follow
(which verses BTW mention two walls!)
Can we get Mexico to pray for him instead?
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?
Uh oh. It’s another contender!
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.
If prayer worked - you wouldn’t need to be asking for others to pray.
To which my SIL replied, “the Bible says keep praying.”
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.
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.
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.
I’d probably post something like “Can I get a womp womp?” But something tells me it would fall flat with that audience.
I voted for Hillary Clinton. I figured meet God halfway and give him something to work with.
Or you could find an appropriate skunk picture and caption it “Let us spray”.
logic doesn’t work on delusional people
Just looked it up, I’d go with that.
I think a simple “Bless his heart” would work.
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.
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.