I’m afraid serious national reform is now an integral prerequisite to my patriotism, in that a fundamental dissonance must be resolved before I can gaze at the flag and feel more like pledging than cringing.
Today, regretfully, we too often face a choice between fidelity to God or allegiance to country. I think of the familiar refrain from my youth, God and country. Like other national slogans – one nation under God, in God we trust – such slogans were not then so glaringly incongruous with national reality. A nation repudiates all of those mottoes which kills babies by the millions, marries same-sex sodomites, tortures prisoners, and pushes Judeo-Christian faith and morals to the back of the bus.
From U.S. History's rich banquet, but a scant few patriotic loaves and fishes remain for me. But by the grace of God and salutary reform, a table of plentiful patriotism awaits citizens like me, I hope, in the future.
Amen. I have created an article about the Patriot post, perhaps you would read it over. (I agree with your message.) ( Estoniankaiju ( talk) 00:58, 17 April 2009 (UTC))
I’m afraid serious national reform is now an integral prerequisite to my patriotism, in that a fundamental dissonance must be resolved before I can gaze at the flag and feel more like pledging than cringing.
Today, regretfully, we too often face a choice between fidelity to God or allegiance to country. I think of the familiar refrain from my youth, God and country. Like other national slogans – one nation under God, in God we trust – such slogans were not then so glaringly incongruous with national reality. A nation repudiates all of those mottoes which kills babies by the millions, marries same-sex sodomites, tortures prisoners, and pushes Judeo-Christian faith and morals to the back of the bus.
From U.S. History's rich banquet, but a scant few patriotic loaves and fishes remain for me. But by the grace of God and salutary reform, a table of plentiful patriotism awaits citizens like me, I hope, in the future.
Amen. I have created an article about the Patriot post, perhaps you would read it over. (I agree with your message.) ( Estoniankaiju ( talk) 00:58, 17 April 2009 (UTC))