I had a really full day today, and I'm not getting around to another chapter. I'm MAKING the time tomorrow, come hell or high water or even the Kings of Israel...
Solomon could have trapped his competitors in a bottle, which is very electable. I imagine that the pundits would be all,
"Senator So-and-so's campaign went dramatically awry today when the wisest man in the world imprisoned him in a bottle.
'I will curse you with boils and leeches!' cried Senator So-and-so, dissipating into mist. 'You will suffer for a thousand years!'
"Senator So-and-so has come under harsh criticism for a spotty voting record and being 'weak and trapped in a bottle, which I will rattle like so ha-ha-ha'; it's becoming harder to see how he can extract himself---or his campaign---from the hole he's dug."
I'm curious what factors would make David unelectable today? Unless we're counting the problems after he became king, especially the Bathsheba and Absalom incidents.
Or, even before he is king, the whole marrying the nice wife of a guy that was rude to him... Abagail...
Which was entirely a good thing for him to do, to essentially provide for her after her husband died of natural causes, but... still.
I'd love to have David as president, honestly. But today, if David were born in the US, and acted as he did, even if he had a great military coup like that against Goliath, and could make us safe, he still would have a hard time against what the US public thinks of as being "righteous".
I understand what you're saying, though you do run into some problems with that line of thought. David's actions *wouldn't* be righteous if done in the US, because several things (even just starting with the pre-King polygamy) are illegal in the US, and therefore immoral for a Christian to do, since a Christian should follow any law that doesn't require him to contradict God's laws. A righteous David might have behaved much differently if born into the modern US, with a different legal code to live under
( ... )
Comments 6
"Senator So-and-so's campaign went dramatically awry today when the wisest man in the world imprisoned him in a bottle.
'I will curse you with boils and leeches!' cried Senator So-and-so, dissipating into mist. 'You will suffer for a thousand years!'
"Senator So-and-so has come under harsh criticism for a spotty voting record and being 'weak and trapped in a bottle, which I will rattle like so ha-ha-ha'; it's becoming harder to see how he can extract himself---or his campaign---from the hole he's dug."
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
Which was entirely a good thing for him to do, to essentially provide for her after her husband died of natural causes, but... still.
I'd love to have David as president, honestly. But today, if David were born in the US, and acted as he did, even if he had a great military coup like that against Goliath, and could make us safe, he still would have a hard time against what the US public thinks of as being "righteous".
Reply
Reply
Leave a comment