Psalm 109:8

When 'Religulous' came out, Bill Maher's challenge struck me as true: "If you belonged to a political party or a social club as tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do anything else is to be an enabler, a mafia wife."

Nonetheless, being a religioholic like so many human beings are, a little sniff or too of the bottle, and I'm very close to binging.

A Beliefnet post, though, concerning the sudden appearance of the vile bumpersticker "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8 ", "May his days be few, may another take his office" on cars in the US, snaps me back to reality. The following verses say "May his children be fatherless, let his wife be a widow."

Ironically, the Psalm opens with "O God whom I praise, do not be silent, for wicked and treacherous mouths attack me. They speak against me with lying tongues. In return for my love, they slandered me, even though I prayed for them. They repay me evil for good, hatred for my love". It's the slanderers who are calling down curses on the man they lie about -- of course this is how the majority of the devout read their Blibel.