Zazzle have just announced they won’t be allowing users to sell goods connecting President Barack Obama to Psalm 109:8. Here is an excerpt from their announcement:
after great thought that we have determined that these products, in the context of the full text of Psalm 109, may be interpreted in such a way as to suggest physical harm to the President of the United States. In deference to the Office of the President of the United States, and in accordance with federal law prohibiting the making of threats against the physical wellbeing of the President of the United States, Zazzle has therefore determined that these products are in violation of the Zazzle User Agreement and not appropriate for inclusion in the Zazzle Marketplace. We have begun efforts to remove them from our website, and we will be vigilant to the publication of similar products moving forward.
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I saw them talking about this on the news the other day. Pretty interesting. I’m all for free speech but where do you draw the line? Glad they took it down tbh…
Whoever created the t-shirt displaying Psalms 109:8 which translates to “his days being fewer and another take his office… let his children be fatherless…..and his wife a widow” APPLY THIS TO YOUR SELF…… HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT IF SOMEONE SAID THAT ABOUT YOUR FAMILY……. COMMENTS, ACTIONS AND STATEMENTS LIKE THESE SHOW YOUR IGNORANCE…… AND YOUR RACISM AND ANTIQUATED THOUGHTS AND IDEAS. FOR SOMEONE TO WISH THIS UPON ANYBODY BETTER BEWARE…. BECAUSE WHAT YOU SOW IS WHAT YOU REAP.. GOD MIGHT JUST LET IT BE YOUR CHILDREN WHO ARE FATHERLESS AND YOUR WIFE A WIDOW….
IAM SICK AND TIRED OF PEOPLE CALLING THEMSELVES “CHRISTIANS” WHEN YOUR ACTIONS, BELIEFS AND RESPONSIBILTY TO MANKIND DOESN’T ADD UP TO BEING A CHRISTIAN.. IT IS MORE TO BE A CHRISTIAN THAT TO SAY YOU ARE. GOD DO NOT HEAR YOU WHEN YOU PRAY IF YOU CAN’T PRAY FOR ALL FELLOW MEN WITHOUT PREJUDICE, HATRED AND WISHING ILL WILL. pRAY FOR YOUR SELF B/C YOU NEED IT.
I actually love this verse, especially today. (109:8) For the record, I had no clue what Psalms 109: 9 read until I was searching to actually buy the shirt 109:8. Now that I know, will I still buy it? YES. I want his days to be few and another to take his place.
Who cares what comes after it? Liberals. Stirring up contraversy. All the time. Trouble makers.
Knowing now how stupid they get about it, I want to buy it even more.
I agree that the verse itself is not bad and when I heard it first I thought it was cool. [Even though I am pro-Obama.] I don’t agree with the shirt because I am intelligent enough to understand the deeper meaning (and it doesn’t take much intelligence.)
You on the other hand are doing exactly what you are complaining that “Liberals” do. “Knowing now how stupid they get about it” you want to get it anyway thus making trouble. By wearing this t-shirt you are stirring up controversy and being a trouble maker. You are a hypocrite.
ZAZZLE censors censored out all my stuff about Billo Reilly and Glnn Beck as disparaging but welcomed Obama, nobama, Osama, dead body got change? and all anti-liberal stuff. See liberal bias here? I don’t.
I don’t think there is much bias at Zazzle either way but regarding Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly you are looking at possible intellectual property infringement if you use their likenesses or names in the design or their names as tags and/or descriptions. This wouldn’t apply to Obama.
ALL OF THE LIBERALS HAVE THEIR PANTIES IN A WAD.
Psalm 109:8 READS,
LET HIS DAYS BE FEW, LET ANOTHER TAKE HIS OFFICE.
AND IT STOPS RIGHT THERE. PSALM 109.8 DOES NOT MENTION ANYTHING ELSE BUT LET HIS DAYS BE FEW, LET ANOTHER TAKE HIS PLACE.
NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT PSALM 109:9 THROUGH 13.
IT’S JUST THE LIBERALS DOING WHAT THEY DO BEST, STRETCHING THE TRUTH, OR TO BE MORE EXACT JUST PLAIN LYING.
Speaking of liberal. I am getting tired of people’s liberal use of UPPER CASE. Use it sparingly and it will have more impact.
Why didn’t you write the same reply on the post above mine?
Read what I wrote, think about it for while and it should become clear. If you still don’t understand and are too embarrassed to ask your friends just leave a comment and I will explain the concept of gradual to you.
All of the LIBERALS have their panties in a wad.
Thanks, i am a Conservative, I am smart enough to understand without any help. so being this is you’r page, i will do it you’r way.
Psalm 109:8 READS,
Let his days be few, Let another take his office.
And it stopsrightthere. PSALM 109.8 Does not mention anything else but let hisdaysbe few, let another take his place.
Nobody is talking about PSALM 109:9 through109: 13.
It’s just the LIBERALS doing what they do best, stretching the truth, or to be more exact, just plain lying.
Thanks, i am a Conservative, I am smart enough to understand without any help. so being this is you’r page, i will do it you’r way.
Psalm 109:8 READS,
Let his days be few, Let another take his office.
And it stopsrightthere. PSALM 109.8 Does not mention anything else but let hisdaysbe few, let another take his place.
Nobody is talking about PSALM 109:9 through109: 13.
It’s just the LIBERALS doing what they do best, stretching the truth, or to be more exact, just plain lying.
@bcass2 – LOL, if you think having a particular political leaning is an indication of intelligence you need to have you’r [sic] head examined.
Its not an indication of intelligence, it just lets you know that i am smarter and superior to anyone who thinks like that. my head is fine and not for nothing, i know who I am I don’t have to follow a phony pied piper.
It doesn’t let me know that you are smarter or superior etc. It lets me know that you think you are.
Let me explain why I think you are not only not intelligent but not educated either. First of all you ask a question to which an intelligent person could have figured out the answer without asking and then after I push you in the right direction you say that you are “smart enough to understand without any help”. (Think about it…yes, you needed my help to understand.)
Then you state that you are a conservative to try let me know that you are “smarter and superior…” etc. even though you agree that having a particular leaning is not an indication of intelligence.
As for the education posit, that was an easy deduction. You somehow think that “your” is spelled “you’r”.
OK, I’ll stop publicly judging you now. Let’s get back to the topic at hand: Psalm 109:8. Forget about all your preconceived notions and ideas for a second and answer me this. Couldn’t it be possible that the sentence in question (Let his days be few.) be referring to the amount of time spent on this earth? I know that if you continue reading the Psalm that is in fact what it means but as a stand-alone phrase don’t you think that this phrase could be interpreted as a prayer for the death of whoever it is directed at?
Psalm 109:8 reads, Let his days be few; And let another take his office. Now besides hoping he gets impeached and someone else take over his job, please show me where this phrase refers to the amount of time spent on this earth, and if anyone be interprets this as a prayer for the death of whoever it is directed at, the person who thinks like that is an idiot, someone who is intepreting it the way they want to and not reading it how it is really written, good try. the people who are up in arms about this are nothing but losers. You didn’t hear them crying when there was a movie made that showed the asasination of George Bush, but say a word of criticism about Obama they go beserk. One more think looking at the anti Bush t shirts, how come you have one that reads,
“WHERE’S LEE HARVEY OSWALD WHEN YOU NEED HIM”
don’t you think that this phrase could be interpreted as, I wish someone would assasinate president Bush? double standard s like always. don’t worry I will spread the word on the double standards on this website. have a great day.
You obviously are not as smart as you think you are if you can’t see how that might mean that people are wishing for the death of Obama.
I on the other hand totally understand the possible interpretations of the Oswald t-shirt.
I’m curious why you think this site has double standards because I am pretty sure that nowhere is it written that I think a design calling for the assassination of President Bush is ok. Perhaps you don’t really understand the phrase “double standards”?
Anyway, thanks for spreading the word about my website. I appreciate it.
Have a nice day too.
I recall the horrible comments about President Bush during his 8 years in office. Some wished him dead, publicly. There was even a movie where President Bush was killed! I bet they’d censor anything attacking President Bush too, wouldn’t they?!
For those that have a bad mind, for those that have a corrupted heart, for those who don’t love their brotherhood, for God’s nature includes all that he is that make him a unique God which is Love. 1 John 4:7-8 say Beloved let us love one another for love is of God and everyone that loveth is born of God. He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is Love not hate. ~Apostle (Pastor) MJ~
So much evil in the heart of men… that same evil will destroy them except the grace of God vindicates them. When we loose our ability to empathize with our fellow man we loose the love of God that is innate in us. And to those of you who say “it is just a scripture; just verse 8 is referenced” – all scripture should be read in context… if you make that statement you are ignorant of the Word and the study of the Word. When you quote scripture, you reference the entire counsel of the Word and in so doing invite the spirit of the Word to judge the intent of your heart. In this instance, the evil in the heart of men has been exposed and they will be judged for it. The Word of God is not to be toyed with or misused for our own folly. It is spirit inspired and the spirit of Christ guards the Word and arbitrates the will of God through the Word.