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This country needs Maximum Whiggery.
This country needs Maximum Whiggery.
In the end, popular sentiment was decisive. Recently freed from the despotic English monarchy, the American people wanted strong guarantees that the new government would not trample upon their newly won freedoms of speech, press and religion, nor upon their right to be free from warrantless searches and seizures. So, the Constitution's framers heeded Thomas Jefferson who argued: "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."
At least Jesus voided that bullshit about "Thy shalt not kill."
You fucking Christians have got a long way to go.
Fuck Jesus if he disagrees with your value system.
Or like this ? If America Stopped Destroying The World, The Bad Guys Might Win!
At least Jesus voided that bullshit about "Thy shalt not kill."
You fucking Christians have got a long way to go.
Fuck Jesus if he disagrees with your value system.
most Christians are patriotic and proudly so as the rights listed in the Constitution and Amendments are specifically granted not by a government or a "Leader", but rather by God.
CovfefeButDeadly saysmost Christians are patriotic and proudly so as the rights listed in the Constitution and Amendments are specifically granted not by a government or a "Leader", but rather by God.
Kindly direct me to the book/verse(s) in the Bible where the United States is mentioned by name. For the life of me I have not been able to locate said passage. All my life I have been searching where God/Jebus singled out the United States and have yet to find it.
Even after contacting devout patriotic Christian luminaires such as Pat Robertson, Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, Joel Osteen, Oral Roberts Ministries, Pat Buchanan, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum etc. not one was able to direct me to the passage(s) in question however I did get numerous requests for money, the more I promised to send in, the more Christian I would become - supposedly, or in some cases more Patriotic and blessed.
The zeitgeist ignores Mark Twain's views on patriotism. And that is quite unfortunate. Because in truth, a "patriot" is something else entirely.
In 1904, Mark Twain said:
"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
These days, however, it seems that the criteria for "patriotism" is merely a "Support the Troops" magnet or "Stars and Stripes" lapel pin. What happened? These days, a "patriot" seems to merely be a brain-dead cheerleader. RA!! RA!! RA!! In essence, its very easy to be a "patriot" these days.
But like Mark Twains said: "Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest."-- Education and Citizenship speech, 5/14/1908. And the 'scoundrel' of today's "patriot" sure has found cunning ways to further his aim. He has gone one step further. He attempts to fuse "christianity" with "patriotism".
But as Mark Twain also said:
"A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot--except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart. The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made tremendously definite- the Christian must forgive his brother man all crimes he can imagine and commit, and all insults he can conceive and utter- forgive these injuries how many times?--seventy times seven--another way of saying there shall be no limit to this forgiveness. That is the spirit and the law of Christianity."
He continued:
"Well--Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult. Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop."
And finally:
"The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him- he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him. The prayers concealed in what I have been saying is, not that patriotism should cease and not that the talk about universal brotherhood should cease, but that the incongruous firm be dissolved and each limb of it be required to transact business by itself, for the future."
https://theunitedamerican.blogs.com/bring_it_on/2005/08/what_is_a_patri.html
Related: http://turningupbones.com/journal-friday-may-6/
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