Having just spent a few hours reading through First and Second Kings in the Hebrew Bible (to refresh my memory of all the rulers who made The King so mad–not Elvis, the Lord God of Israel), I found this poster by Iowa Atheists quite clever.

btw, in case you never learned this as I did in Church, College and Seminary … The Lord was not happy the people of Israel chose a king in the first place. HE was supposed to be the only Ruler. This is why most kings kept messing up. It wasn’t The Plan.

This is one origin of the whole Christian Nationalist belief in a “Theocracy.” They never get around to explaining what this would mean in practice (except our Secular Constitution would be replaced by the Bible), but imagine this:

What would it even look like to have God as President?

Guess who His cabinet would be: you guessed it … preachers, theologians, Sunday school teachers.

If that ever happened, I might find myself saying, “Lord help us!” (maybe not)

{note: I was reading those parts of the Hebrew Bible after seeing a story about some Southern Baptist preachers calling VP Kamala Harris a “Jezebel.” That they find any parallel with the biblical Queen Jezebel shows their profound ignorance, and perhaps Racist-for-Jesus beliefs}