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Originally Posted by kach22i
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.
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Sorry don't take his wrong but you are so off the mark of what I am saying. So just to clarify what I hear you saying is that his statement about the white house and a black woman was appropriate for behind the pulpit, can you show me the passage in the bible that reflects this. When the constitution was wrote all those years ago it called for a separation of church and state it wasn't to keep the church out of gov. it was to keep the gov. out of the church but some ministers these days take it too far and he is one of them. He needs to tend to his flock and not to sensationalizing.