God has not blessed America. God has damned America.

[Jara sang]

By allowing the murderous leader Bush to rule our country with a despotic hand. We have all been damned by God. Bush invokes God's name at nearly every speech he gives. Tell me, where in the Bible does Christ say to put criminals to death? Where does Christ say that? Where does Christ say go forth and slaughter innocent men, women and children in My name? Bush is the leader of a neo-Christian death cult. He knows nothing of Christ. Bush will surely burn in hell for his murderous ways.

[Just Me]

1. Can't we,...just,....leave God outta' this man-made mess?

:shrug: Jus' sayin' :shrug:

[Nikki Stone 1]

3. Yeah, people can mess things up all by themselves

without blaming any other life form.

[LSK]

4. thank you n/t

[C_U_L8R]

7. "God Bless America" is a request

not a statement of fact - as the arrogant fundies would have you believe.
Last I heard.. God had not yet responded to them.

[TahitiNut]

10. So is "Bring the tea, Jeeves."

:shrug: In the theology of TahitiNut, the only legitimate prayer is one of gratitude.

[C_U_L8R]

11. Or "Pass the Parmesan"...

for all the FSM devotees

[leeroysphitz]

9. I second that...

Funny thing about gOD... He seems to be on just about EVERYONE'S side.
Not really sure how that works.

[obxhead]

14. Klink

:toast:

[HamdenRice]

2. America has been cursed by spaghetti ...

the flying spaghetti monster -- for those of you who are a pastafarians.

[SPKrazy]

5. Bushit! ** has cursed America!

Not God!

[Faygo Kid]

6. Quit drinking. And you are my friend.

You are the Best. But it takes one to know one. You are totally correct in your analysis. So what?

[melody]

8. Who allowed him to do anything?

We were conquered via electronics.

If a personal god existed, it would surely have been too kind to allow Bush to overthrow his own people.

[filthyrichkleptocrat]

12. God has blessed America in many many ways.

Leaders come and go. Even when you get the one you want, he or she either is or will become an insufferably out of touch, arrogant, self righteous, tyrannical megalomaniac in due time, power corrupts.

So either drive yourself nuts, or imagine your life elsewhere. You wouldn't have to worry about our oval office ass so much, but there'd be some other power crazed overbearing leadership idiot to contend with and your neighbors would all look and think and act alike, the inbred set, their best and brightest citizens having emigrated to America over the centuries, blessing us with the widest variety of beautiful women on the planet to make babies with.

[Catch22Dem]

18. A damn fine post, my friend

and a hearty welcome to DU :toast:

[filthyrichkleptocrat]

20. Thank you much, Yossarian.

[Just Me]

19. Man uses God as an excuse for everything beyond his control,....

,...that goes very right or very wrong in his view.

Supposedly, the ONLY thing God blessed US ALL with is free will. We ALL have the blessing to choose how to behave in all circumstances. Otherwise, there are no other "blessings". We just have to deal.

We are not dealing very well, IMHO. We are making a damned mess of ourselves and this gift called, "Earth". It's our choice,...we are exercising our free will in so doing.

I'm jus' sayin',...leave God outta' this man-made mess.

I'm sick of anyone invoking God all the damn time.

Sorry. Just how I feel about the matter.

Now, let's talk about what WE can do to make life, even the part we can't explain/understand/control better for those who live next to us. Please.b

[filthyrichkleptocrat]

21. Then just do what you think is right.

That is if your recognizing no higher power doesn't lead you to the assumption of godlike license to do unto others whatever you will, regardless of theirs.

I think humility is a requisite of civility.

[EST]

13. God. if it were to exist,

would not give a shit about America, one way or the other.

[progressivebydesign]

15. lots of people are put to death for very minor reasons in the bible. n/t

[CanuckAmok]

16. God damned America, but not for Bush. God damned America for:

"The New WKRP in Cincinatti".

[Catch22Dem]

17. god is pretend. we create our own fucking messes

No celestial puppeteer is involved.

[PaganPreacher]

22. Linked from godhatesamerica.com?

I smell the Phelps clan! Phred, is that you?

Jara, I don't know if anyone ever told you, but "Christianity" is a lot more than those quotes of the Rabbi Yeshua bar Yona that were written down (or invented and attributed) years or decades after his death.

Christianity is made of teachings and history from the Hebrew Bible; stories and lists of quotable quotes written down by the followers of Saul of Tarsus, but attributed to the Christus; the Acts of Apostles (Saul's version of the conflict between Yeshua's brothers and the upstart Saul in Jerusalem); letters (epistles) from Saul/Paul to the new churches, keeping them in line (his line, that is); a dream sequence (or "revelation") remembered late in life by a hermit who may have drunk his own urine; two millenia worth of history and writing by all manner of men and women who deigned to speak in the name of their god and his son (from Irenaeus to Pat Robertson); and the thoughts and terrors of every man, woman, and child who calls himself "Christian".

Really, "Jesus" is a minor player in Christianity. He was a handy idol of gold for Paul to build a cult around. If Pontius Pilate had released him and executed Yeshua Bar Abbas instead, Saul would have claimed an epiphany from Bar Abbas on the road to Damascus, and you would be calling yourself a Barabbian.

But.....
If you want two statements attributed to Jesus that support violence, I am happy to give them to you:

"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace on the earth. I did not come to bring peace but the sword." (Matthew 10:34)

"If you do not have a sword sell your cloak and buy one" (Luke 22:36)




The Pagan Preacher
I don't turn the other cheek.

[Beelzebud]

23. If there is a god, it doesn't even care about America.

It's out there in the universe creating galaxies right now.