{"id":17222,"date":"2016-07-29T11:53:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T16:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=17222"},"modified":"2016-07-29T12:09:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T17:09:26","slug":"psalm-10-and-octopus-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=17222","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 10 and Octopus Ink"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the six months since I’ve returned from Jerusalem<\/a> I’ve managed to get over half way from Genesis to the last of the minor prophets – Malachi. (Those are generally all the books in both the Protestant’s Old Testament and the Hebrew Bible<\/a>) Last night after the end of the Democrat’s Presidential nominating convention I read Psalm 10: As with Job before it I couldn’t help relate many of the lines to current events, to wit:<\/p>\n

Vs. 2: In arrogance the wicked persecute the poor- (Donald Trump ripping off legions of small contractors, college students, renters, investors)
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\nVs. 3: For the wicked boast of the desires of their heart, those greedy for gain….:(Ditto Trump)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vs. 5: Their ways prosper at all times: your judgments are on high, out of their sight, as for their foes, they scoff (tweet)<\/strong> at them.<\/p>\n

Vs. 7: …..under their tongues are mischief and iniquity.<\/p>\n

Vs. 8: …Their eyes stealthily watch for the helpless:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Republican evangelicals really have nominated a fifth grader’s, middle finger of a candidate. I’d say fourth grade as that is one estimate of Donald Trump’s vocabulary usage but my older grandson is going into fourth grade and I just can’t stand the idea of my grandson being in the same class with Donald Trump. <\/p>\n

Even my first grade grandson has a superior vocabulary to the Trumpster. Yesterday after our trip to the Duluth Aquarium we were talking about Octopus ink and he said it was an “obstacle illusion.” That’s also a good description of the Big Apple, rip off artist. The fifth grader in me can’t help but think of that stock fifth grade retort, “I know you are but what am I?”<\/em>, when I hear him call Clinton “Crooked Hillary.” <\/p>\n

It turns out that about two-thirds of Americans who call themselves “evangelicals” never or rarely go to church. Consequently, they have nominated a candidate who is disinterested in religion and contemptuous of today’s thin Republican dogma. Now they are faced with a candidate, like her or not, who was locked out of her house by her Mother to face down the neighborhood’s bullies. Too bad the Republicans didn’t have any candidates with Mother’s like Hillary Clinton had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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