kellinator: (smug)
kellinator ([personal profile] kellinator) wrote2004-11-18 11:20 am

Now it all makes sense!

From "The Character of a Good Ruler", a seventeenth-century pamphlet by Samuel Willard (I'm retrieving it for a professor):

"Evil doers, and the mal-administrations of good ones, are punishments which GOD does inflict on a people that have provoked Him to anger against them. God gave Saul to Israel in His wrath, and he left David to number the people because His anger was kindled against Israel."

That explains so much...

[identity profile] mfree.livejournal.com 2004-11-18 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
All you have to say is to remind people that in a democracy, people get the government they deserve.

[identity profile] streamweaver.livejournal.com 2004-11-18 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
I prefer the passage that goes "Fuck you motherfucker and your Republican Rightwing Bullshit". I think that's a modern translation of the Lewis Black version of the bible.

[identity profile] whorlwind.livejournal.com 2004-11-18 10:56 am (UTC)(link)
The citizens get the ruler they deserve.
Which just makes me feel icky.. the dirt.. it won't come clean.

[identity profile] magenta-girl.livejournal.com 2004-11-18 11:01 am (UTC)(link)
Of course, it's too bad that the people who voted him in think that God is rewarding them, and won't see it as an evil...
I added you a few days ago, in an attempt to surround myself as much as possible with people who have the same/similar political views as me.

[identity profile] kellinator.livejournal.com 2004-11-18 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
Nice to meet ya! Liberal spoken here. :)

[identity profile] corvidae9.livejournal.com 2004-11-18 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
Ah the biblical vicious cycle.

We are SO fucked.

*off to wave her big liberal flag somewhere else, hoping she doesn't get burnt at the stake*