Schizophrenic Psalmist

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You know that Psalm 119 is an acrostic, right?  Did you know the writer is a slippery eel? Of course not.  The writers can be forgiven for just saying what aligns and rhymes. He cannot say eight times “Teach me your statutes” and “Oh that my ways may be established To keep Your statutes!” (Psalms 119:5, NASB) and convince anyone that he has consistently kept the statutes.

Bring me back from the dead

Even more telling is the fact that he asks to be given life repeatedly and we have to conclude that he is dead. Quicken me, ζησον με, make me live, make me come alive, is a sinner’s cry, but a writer who is focused on making a creative song cannot be expected to write consistent theology.

Make me live is wholly consistent with being dead

Scaremongering, imperial, serial colonialist rapist, and genocidal characteristics make great leaders.

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What makes a good leader?

If I were in the current governing class in the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, the People’s Republic of China or Israel that would be my answer.  But I am from a far away galaxy where leaders are compassionate servants of the people with a dependence on plows not weapons of mass destruction, and do not use walls to divide citizens and do not use the levers of power to enrich themselves and their friends.