Posted on 06/05/2013 12:08:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
See also here from the Washington Post:
TTILE: Strike ‘God Bless America’ from the seventh-inning stretch
See also here in USA TODAY:
Minister’s reason for sitting during ‘God Bless America’ at the ballpark
I don’t mind standing, or singing either for that matter.
I wish God would Bless America, we need it now more than ever.
Mr Marsh , sir you are an idiot.
I can’t tell if the guy has an actual point or not.
He sounds like an idiot.
Left the Methodist denomination 20 years ago and have not regretted that decision one bit.
What a moron.
Jesus taught us to pray for God to "give US this day our daily bread." The song is an acknowledgment that our blessings come from God and if other nations want to get the blessings of God, they can change the lyrics to include their nations.
This kind of knee jerk globalist politically correct hogwash is ridiculous.
He could stand and sing "God Bless the Universe, the World that I Love" if he's so concerned about far away people that he refuses to pray for his neighbors.
The Complete Fool
No surprise he is a Methodist. I experimented with the Methodist Church for a couple years on my wife’s behalf but quickly left after discovering that not one I met will take a stand on anything. Back to a SBC church as fast I could.
RE: I imagine that the God I believe in isn’t interested in dispensing special nationalistic blessings. (Or, perhaps more to the point, blessings for our bullpen, error-free fielding and sufficient run support.) When we ask for blessings to be bestowed only on “us,”
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ONLY? This man is delusional. No one is asking God to ONLY bless America to the exclusion of others.
Sometimes a song is just a song.
The fallacy in his reasoning is his assumption that asking God’s blessing on America somehow excludes everyone else. This is a patriotic hymn, intended to envoke God’s blessing on our country. When one asks God’s blessing on a specific group, church or newborn baby, one does not exclude anyone else. This is a common liberal lie. Recognizing X DOES NOT exclude Y. To claim otherwise means everyone is just a part of the faceless masses...the foundation of liberal/progressive ideology.
I suspect this frock-disguised liberal has no problem asking God’s blessings on his parishoners, his own children and possibly grandchildren, certain friends in distress, and on and on and on. Belittling the invocation of God’s blessing on our country, and trying to excuse it with the lie that it excludes everyone else, is simply evidence that the reason he won’t envoke the blessing is because he doesn’t want it.
I don’t mean to imply that folks should be forced or shamed into standing - but his reasoning is invalid, which means he is hiding his true reasons.
I have a problem with the title. It should be God Bless Vespucciland.
This Land--Woody Guthry (1951)
Bear in mind that the melody was stolen from a gospel song--which I much prefer over Guthrie's version:
The Fire Song--The Carter Family (1930)
Look at me, look at me. I’m most righteous and perfect and ...
Methodism has some real numbskulls in its ministerial class.
Maybe we should just wipe the slate and start all over again.
This guy acknowledges it’s a prayer for blessing, but he doesn’t want to stand because it might offend, make no difference, etc., etc.
I suppose he hasn’t really thought about the words. It’s a prayer that I can say Amen to.
BTW, I am a fully ordained for decades, practicing Methodist Minister.
Kind of odd what a Methodist minister will take a “stand” on... The UMC is pro-homo marriage, pro-abortion, and pro-many other things that are against God’s Word. So why has he taken this “stand”?
Of course - I know of absolutely no reason to stand for “God Bless America”. The National Anthem, “The Star Spangled Banner”, should be respected by standing. But just because some drunk baseball fan thinks you should stand for God Bless America... no...
no problem, with WashDC now attacking Christian (and Jewish) faith (”elections have consequences!”)... pretty soon this supposed minister of the gospel will be sent to the Peoples’ Re-Education Center... to learn some “socially useful trade” instead of spreading religious opiate to the masses.......... like, perhaps, “community organizing” for the local Communist Party cell boss.
and he won’t be allowed to sit through the Communist Internationale party song, he’ll be standing up and applauding (or else!)
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