"Does God bless America?"
So asks Constance Hilliard in her September 4, 2003 editorial at USA Today.com. And while, yes, such simplistic articles do annoy the hell out of me, I figured it was a good enough question for this forum to be sure.
Oh, well.
Did I mention that I find the article annoyingly simplistic?
And, just for color, I'll take the question a little further. Is God Bless America an appropriate song during this wartime? asks USA Today.
And I say no. The song ruins a perfect day at the baseball park. Bush wouldn't know God if It came up and bit him in his hole in the ground. And most important of all, what is with the childish playground aspect? "God is on our side!" Crap, that sounds like children fighting: "Nuh-uh. Uh-huh. Nuh-uh. Uh-huh ...."
I'm just glad the administration hasn't stooped to, "I know you are, but what am I?"
Too bad about the holy war, though.
And the link please ..... http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2003-09-04-hilliard_x.htm
So asks Constance Hilliard in her September 4, 2003 editorial at USA Today.com. And while, yes, such simplistic articles do annoy the hell out of me, I figured it was a good enough question for this forum to be sure.
And what can I say? Apparently the atheists still don't count ....President Bush ended his Labor Day speech to a Richfield, Ohio, labor union crowd much as he finishes all his public speeches: "May God continue to bless America." Whether he intends that as a patriotic cliché or as a deeply anchored theological assertion, he needs to explain exactly what he means to say. Given the morass our world is in, does this slogan mean that God should bless America but smite Saddam loyalists in Iraq, North Korea's leaders and maybe even the French for their irritating warnings that we were about to get into a quagmire by invading Iraq? Or should God merely ignore our enemies . . . .
. . . . Let's also remember that millions of Americans belong to theological traditions that are not predicated on the worship of a god. Do they have a place at our table of patriotic sloganeering . . . .
Oh, well.
Did I mention that I find the article annoyingly simplistic?
And, just for color, I'll take the question a little further. Is God Bless America an appropriate song during this wartime? asks USA Today.
And I say no. The song ruins a perfect day at the baseball park. Bush wouldn't know God if It came up and bit him in his hole in the ground. And most important of all, what is with the childish playground aspect? "God is on our side!" Crap, that sounds like children fighting: "Nuh-uh. Uh-huh. Nuh-uh. Uh-huh ...."
I'm just glad the administration hasn't stooped to, "I know you are, but what am I?"
Too bad about the holy war, though.
And the link please ..... http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2003-09-04-hilliard_x.htm