Dare We ask?

Dare we ask; is it unpatriotic to ask: WHY SHOULD AMERICA WIN? WIN AS NEVER BEFORE?

Are we better than other of God’s children? To what is that man appealing with this message?

Is he appealing to that part of us that wishes to be a blessing, as Abraham’s children are called to do, to the rest of the world’s disadvantaged and oppressed? Is he even inviting us to win so that we can be a blessing to our own poor?

“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“‘Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!’ cries she
With silent lips. ‘Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!’” (“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus)


I fear that this is not his appeal. I fear that he is appealing to something base and selfish and ugly. He is appealing to the covetousness that has always been part of the American DNA, and has grown in recent years into a cancer. He is appealing to the idolatrous demon that resides within each of us, and drives us to gobble up every scrap of materialistic crap that we can lay our grubby little hands on.

He is appealing to the brutish and violent side of our fallen nature; the one that justifies our pushing everyone aside so that we can be the first to feed from the trough. Are we still, after all these millennia, really nothing more than animals? Monkeys led by the latest and most aggressive silver back?

His is not a voice calling us to Zion, pleading for us to “go ye out of Babylon.” NO! His is a voice tempting, seducing us to leave Zion in order to defile ourselves with “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
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And many Americans are licking it up.