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NoeticPenguin · Feb 16, 2004, 03:48 pm

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (PeterWolf,)
Can any one point out when God blessed the United States? If no one can point it out or provide any evidence of such, could anyone then perhaps explain how one would know when or if God blesses somebody or something?<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>

Perhaps your starting with the wrong question. It might be a slightly more interesting question to ask "WHICH God" bless(es|ed) the Us?

I would venture to guess that the majority of people who say such things are speaking from a Judeo-Christian background, and are asking / claiming that their God (YHWH) has blessed / will bless them; which is all together interesting, considering that God (YHWH) doesn't have much of a history of blessing entire nations. (Though you could pretty easily claim that Israel as a nation was blessed...)

Also, what is meant by "bless" ? Most protestants equate God's blessing with material posessions, and other tangible, yet utterly useless things. (There's a reason the protestant ethic is named after protestants) In the Bible we clearly read of blessings from God that are nothing like posessions etc, but rather Children, or even (in the psalms) hardships, that force the "blessed one" into a closer walk with God.

All in all the entire idea of "God bless america" is a artifact of a godless civil religion, hell bent not on making disciples or seeing the Kingdom of God come near, but rather on maintaining power, even if their power has to come at the price of spiritual numbness of the masses.

-Pkj.

Feb 16, 2004, 03:48 pm	#18 (permalink) (top)
NoeticPenguin Sedimentary Rock Posts: 12	</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (PeterWolf,) Can any one point out when God blessed the United States? If no one can point it out or provide any evidence of such, could anyone then perhaps explain how one would know when or if God blesses somebody or something?<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'> Perhaps your starting with the wrong question. It might be a slightly more interesting question to ask "WHICH God" bless(es\|ed) the Us? I would venture to guess that the majority of people who say such things are speaking from a Judeo-Christian background, and are asking / claiming that their God (YHWH) has blessed / will bless them; which is all together interesting, considering that God (YHWH) doesn't have much of a history of blessing entire nations. (Though you could pretty easily claim that Israel as a nation was blessed...) Also, what is meant by "bless" ? Most protestants equate God's blessing with material posessions, and other tangible, yet utterly useless things. (There's a reason the protestant ethic is named after protestants) In the Bible we clearly read of blessings from God that are nothing like posessions etc, but rather Children, or even (in the psalms) hardships, that force the "blessed one" into a closer walk with God. All in all the entire idea of "God bless america" is a artifact of a godless civil religion, hell bent not on making disciples or seeing the Kingdom of God come near, but rather on maintaining power, even if their power has to come at the price of spiritual numbness of the masses. -Pkj. "What He really hates is the crap that gets carried out in his name. Wars. Bigotry. Televangelism." --Rufus the 13th Apostle.