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Originally Posted by gsmith660
He has no business doing it from behind the pulpit, what does a sermon like that have to do with spreading the word of God and teaching us what is in the bible. He is making a political statement and nothing more.
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His point, if I understand it correctly is that when we say "God Bless America" we are mixing religion and government and religion is God's domain. You should not bless the actions of a government, that would be too similar to worshiping a government and you should only worship God, the lord and Jesus Christ.
We don't say:
God bless American's
We don't say:
God bless the American Government
I can see room for the twist of words and meaning here.
The ability to say "D--- my government" is not the same as saying "D--- it's people".
The list of bad things done under the watch of our government (war, slavery, mass murder) in the full speech places the context on those evils. The evil of governmental actions cannot receive God's blessing - that I think was the point.
If you do those things of evil (history says we have) then you are not blessed, only God is blessed...........or so the sermon says.