Monday, May 10, 2004

Bush's "evildoers" them and "wrongdoers" us = Evangelical codespeak
Found this interesting nugget on christianity.com:
King David of Israel once wrote about "friendly fire." In the 37th Psalm he began with these words, "Do not fret because of evildoers, be not envious toward wrongdoers." The word fret means "to become heated." The idea was that someone did something that caused your blood to boil. Now there are two kinds of people who can get you all fired up. The Bible calls them evildoers and wrongdoers. Evildoers are people who just don't like you and will fire upon you anytime they have the opportunity. Wrongdoers on the other hand, are people who don't mean to hurt you but somehow it just happens. David was talking about "friendly fire." And, unfortunately, all of us are going to be burned by it from time to time.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:a2wlk_NSG5AJ:resources.christianity...
Not that I think Bush has ever even opened a bible, but no doubt he was advised by Hughes and/or Rove to insert these distinctive codewords to separate "us good Christians with those hellbound Muslims."

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