“A Prayer of Imprecation”

Let their children be orphaned, cut off without a father. Let their wives be widows, and we pray that their children would be desolate, having to beg their bread in empty places. We pray that the extortioner would come back at them, catching them in their plots, and taking all that they have. May strangers and aliens pillage them and leave them with nothing. We pray that when this happens, and Your hand is evident, that no one would show mercy, and that no kindness would be extended to his fatherless children. Cut off his posterity; may his name and his line come to nothing. Recall how sinful his father was, and call up again the sins of his mother. May their sins come before Your throne continually so that their name may be blotted out, and remembered on the earth no more.
Douglas Wilson

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  2. I think that the more DW speaks and writes, the more evident it becomes that he is a man who is fully “in the flesh” as defined by Paul throughout the New Testament.

    Galatians 5:19–21: The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

    In Matthew 5, Jesus told His disciples to pray for their enemies. It is interesting to note that the word Jesus used for “pray” is the same one used in the NT to describe most prayers. In other words, we are to pray for our enemies the same way we pray for our family, our friends, our church, and…wait for it…ourselves. Perhaps this is how DW prays for himself, but I highly doubt it.

    What a charlatan.

  3. Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers! Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely.
    Psalm 141:9–10 ESV

  4. Well, that was certainly a long litany of ill wishes, whoever the target may have been. (Anyone in particular, or just a rant against his “enemies”?) But no mention of boobs?

    1. He called it “a sample prayer of imprecation.” I specifically quoted it because of his unique use of “extortioner”; and I generally quoted it to demonstrate his uniquely malicious nature. And for some reason I thought his voodoo incantation called on his deity to make their teats dry. But I was wrong.

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