Thursday, June 28, 2012

What the...? I don't even...?

As though you needed an extra bit of WTF-ery to go with your "forcing you to buy something is a tax" BS today, I just saw this on FB and...well, I don't even get it:


Of course those few verses give almost no context, so I went to look at the whole chapter on BibleGateway.com.  So here's more:

Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, now that Ehud was dead. So the Lord sold them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. Sisera, the commander of his army, was based in Harosheth Haggoyim. Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the Lord for help.
 
Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time. She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided. She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “The Lord, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor. I will lead Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands. ’”

Barak said to her, “If you go with me, I will go; but if you don’t go with me, I won’t go.”

“Certainly I will go with you,” said Deborah. “But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the Lord will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman.” So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh. There Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali, and ten thousand men went up under his command. Deborah also went up with him.
The whole chapter can be read here. And...It makes my head hurt.  Obama is going to save us from oppression?  I guess?  Not that anyone needed telling, but there is still a huge racial divide going in to this next election.  I'm sure I could suss out the sociological reasons for this, but honestly I don't want to.  I've got to go figure out how we're going to magically begin to afford health insurance.

3 comments:

Mrs. D said...

So does that mean that John Roberts and SCOTUS will get the glory instead of Obama?

Jessie said...

I love how it went from "We aren't going to Tax you/This isn't a tax it's a fee" To Oh yeah it is a Tax... now what, tax me if I don't want to buy grass fed organic beef?

peter said...

BTW, the first comment is from me. Didn't realize Martha-Claire was signed into Gmail when I did that.