Friday, June 09, 2006

Fun with Prophecy

This is what the king who will reign over you will do: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots.
Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.
He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants.
He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use. He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.
When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the Lord will not answer you in that day.

- 1 Samuel, chapter 8:11–18

“Maybe we should have Supreme Leader Bush. I kind of like the sound of that.”
- Bill Kristol, FOX News

"You denigrate the leader that God has placed over you."
- Some right-wing Christian's response to my observation that Bush lied about WMDs in Iraq.

1 Comments:

Blogger Terry Preston said...

"... That -God- has placed over you?"

Is there something about the voting ballot that I'm not aware of?

What it is about conservatives who hate government but love authority figures? (This is probably worth a thesis in and of itself.)

5:10 AM, June 20, 2006  

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