{"id":2744,"date":"2023-12-30T03:11:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T03:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2023-12-30T03:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T03:11:43","slug":"evensong-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2744","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 86"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1001\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20200823_105159-1001x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20200823_105159-1001x1024.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20200823_105159-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20200823_105159-768x786.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20200823_105159-1501x1536.jpg 1501w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20200823_105159-2001x2048.jpg 2001w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The megalomaniacal king returns with this psalm called \u201cA Prayer of David.\u201d Despite what the Rev. Spurgeon calls humility, this is a list of demands: \u201cPreserve my life,\u201d says the king; \u201cSave Your servant\u201d; \u201cBe merciful to me\u201d \u2014 15 demands in all, in a psalm that is only 17 verses long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, sure, there\u2019s also plenty of apple-polishing going on here, like, \u201cAmong the gods there is none like You, O Lord\u201d \u2014 again, another admission that gods other than YHWH existed in King David\u2019s cosmology. So I imagine a fundamentalist reads that part of the Bible literally, too, huh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in his most tiresome way, David whines that \u201cthe proud have risen against me, \/ And a mob of violent men have sought my life \u2026 \/ Show me a sign for good, \/ That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed, \/ Because You, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.\u201d Brown-noser.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like few others so far, this psalm plainly shows why state religion \u2014 Christian nationalism being the lunacy du jour \u2014\u00a0 is ungodly. Who decides which god is worshiped or not? Who spots every sign and declares it good or bad? Who judges right and wrong? Why, the lunatic king, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The megalomaniacal king returns with this psalm called \u201cA Prayer of David.\u201d Despite what the Rev. Spurgeon calls humility, this is a list of demands: \u201cPreserve my life,\u201d says the king; \u201cSave Your servant\u201d; \u201cBe merciful to me\u201d \u2014 15 demands in all, in a psalm that is only 17 verses long. Yeah, sure, there\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2744\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 86<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2745,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}