[Vision2020] Imprecatory prayer

[Joan Opyr]

On Apr 4, 2006, at 10:04 PM, Chasuk wrote:

> On 4/4/06, ToeKneeTime at aol.com <ToeKneeTime at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Imprecatory prayer?  Not familiar with it.  Would appreciate an 
>> explanation,
>> preferably from BOTH sides.  Would also like to see verbatim, dated 
>> examples
>> of such practice calling for the death of others as Joan alleges.  
>> Thanks
>> you.
>
> An imprecatory prayer is simply a prayer asking God for the
> destruction of enemies.
>
> "Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; tear out, O Lord, the fangs
> of the lions! Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they
> draw the bow, let their arrows be blunted. Like a slug melting away as
> it moves along, like a still born child, may they not see the sun� The
> righteous will be glad when they bathe their feet in the blood of the
> wicked." Psalm 58.6-10.
>
> Many of the psalms are imprecatory prayers.  When Joan speaks of
> imprecatory prayer, she probably means it in a figurative sense, but I
> don't know.

That's the ticket, Chasuk, with the addendum that Doug and company have 
long engaged in targeted imprecatory prayer.  Tony needn't fret himself 
that this is a paranoid liberal fantasy; Doug won't deny it.  Why 
should he?  He doesn't believe there's anything wrong with it.  Christ 
Church, under Doug, has routinely engaged in imprecatory prayer for 
years; it's part and parcel of the church's "enemy theology," which 
Michael Metzler has so aptly exposed on his blog, 
http://poohsthink.com.  Let us not forget that Doug Wilson is Michael's 
pastor, or that Michael is (still) a member in good standing of Christ 
Church.  I think a visit to the Wood is in order, Tony -- or perhaps to 
the woodshed.

I also think it would behoove you, Tony, to recognize that many on this 
list are light years' ahead of you in experience and research into the 
Wilson phenomenon.  Have you read Doug's magazine, Credenda Agenda 
(http://www.credenda.org)?  What about Wilson's many books, including 
Federal Husband, Reforming Marriage, Future Men and, lest we forget, 
the infamous Southern Slavery: As It Was?  I've read them; so have 
Rose, Saundra, Nick Gier, and many, many others.  (Donovan, I'm 
guessing, has not.  He displays no familiarity whatsoever with their 
contents.)

You have done yourself a great disservice, Tony, by leaping onto Vision 
2020, guns a-blazing, without having the least idea of what you're 
talking about re: Douglas J. Wilson.  It's a bit like me invading the 
International Physics Convention, jumping up onto the stage and 
shouting, "Do ya'll have any evidence of quarks?  I mean aside from 
your pointy-headed theories and allegations."  I'll have to think of 
some other way to win the Nobel.

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com
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