Why Should God Bless America? a musical question

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You do know if you click on this link it will take you to the Music Video??

Lyrics transcribed below:

Why should God bless America?
She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back
On everything that made her what she is

Why should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sin and heal our land

The courts ruled prayer out of our schools
In June of ‘62
Told the children “you are your own God now
So you can make the rules”
O say can you see what that choice
Has cost us to this day
America, one nation under God, has gone astray

Why should God bless America?
Shes’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back on everything
That made her what she is

Why should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sins and heal our land

In ‘73 the Courts said we
Could take the unborn lives
The choice is yours don’t worry now
It’s not a wrong, it’s your right

But just because they made it law
Does not change God’s command
The most that we can hope for is
God’s mercy on our land

Why should God bless America?
She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back on everything
That made her what she is

Why should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sins and heal our land

(Reading from 2nd Chronicles 7:14) If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land

God have mercy on America forgive her sins and heal our land

Posted by Kyle at 12:43 PM

Subject: Religious Right, Group: ValuesVoters.org, States: Florida, Ohio

Last edited by sinsboldly on 24 Sep 2007, 9:59 pm, edited 3 times in total.

The religious right seems to be so hung up on those two topics, prayer in schools and abortion, that they're willing to support any candidate that promises to get behind them, regardless of what else the candidate does or stands for... it's not a good way to pick candidates, and the country suffers for it

I suggest combining the two and campaigning for mandatory abortion in schools.

I move for addition of a "Gratuitous, knee-jerk US-bash" section on WP. Then all you extra-smart, more-compassionate-than-thou folk can gather (NT style!) to pat each other on the back in celebration of your superiority.

And don't forget about shrimp. GOD HATES SHRIMP!!. They are an abomination to his sight, yet are tolerated in every city and town across this nation.

But we can redeem America by heeding his word to avoid things from the water that do not have gills and fins. Smash the Long Johns Silvers, I say!! Put an end to clam chowder before it is too late!

>> GOD HATES SHRIMP!! <<

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Or, which seems a better idea to me, mandatory prayer in abortion clinics.

Seriously though, as a non-religious anti-abortionist I feel very ashamed sometimes, to see what I think is a good and noble cause being hijacked by fundamentalist morons who don't know how to distinguish a fierce debate from murder.

I know what you mean... I am personally against abortion for the simple reason that whenever a genetic test is synthesized for AS, 90% of mothers around the world will abort because their child is "imperfect" (as if the mothers themselves were...) Regardless, abortion combined with genetic screening can only go in one direction: ethnic cleansing.

Secondly, I, a man of faith myself, get annoyed when some fundamentalist preacher (of any religion) starts spewing rhetoric about how "WE MUST SLAY THE INFIDEL IN THE NAME OF GOD" or some twistid crap like that... more people have died in the name of God (and by this i mean the God of Abrahamic religions) than any other entity on the planet. And the sad thing is, all abrahamic religions list a commandment from god saying "Thou shalt not commit murder" or something similar. Hypocrisy, anyone?

btw, Do you think Hendrix was making a statement when he played the National Anthem at Woodstock?

God may bless America, but God defend New Zealand

Indeed he was, but it was a different time. America was redefining freedom of expression to include a broader range of types of expression and dissent. The more conservative factions considered the more progressive factions to be "un-American" and said so.

Hendrix himself claimed he wasn't.

He probably believed that. It was a different time, when not everything was intended or perceived to be a political statement. Some people were just doin' their thing.

Yup. Another quote supporting this:

And such practices are still done today.

"I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."
-President George H. W. Bush

You're aware this quote is from a man who's had no governmental role these past 14 years? Although you allude to what's going on "today"...

Additionally, the quote was noted by exactly one reporter, who made no tape, but swears he "heard it".

Last edited by UncleBeer on 27 Sep 2007, 4:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Riiiiggghht. As if this was representative of a large number of Republicans today. You want something from the current administration?

The rest of the paragraph (which you thoughtfully omit):

The word "constitutional" appears three times. What exactly are you objections?