Posted on 11/13/2023 5:25:29 PM PST by Gratia
A question
Or does loyalty to America depend on subservience to another country? IOW, subservience which requires total lack of criticism, total agreement, to avoid malignant name calling?
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You’re going to have to give an example. The question is kind of unclear.
Cute.
We know what you are really asking.
My loyalty to America is wavering because of what we are becoming, however, let us stipulate my loyalty is at the former levels.
It is okay to ALSO favor decent treatment of Israel and to shield her from muslims and their atrocities.
Should be obvious. He’s (She’s?) talking about Israel.
Christian first. Alabamian second. American third.
Is the Pledge of Allegiance still relevant to you?
There’s your answer.
Or to put it another way...
God. Family. Country.
Let's say America's official religion was declared as Islam. Would you be loyal?
Let's say America's official language was declared to be Spanish. Would you be loyal?
Let's say Biden demanded on penalty of death that all Americans hand over their arms, possessions, and money over to FEDGOV and get injected with some death serum invented by Bill Gates to comply with "the New Economy".
WOULD YOU BE LOYAL?
Loyalty can only be applied to a commitment.
America is not a commitment... it’s a place.
The Constitution is a commitment... a commitment to principles.. and subservient to even higher principles which should align... such as our principles for and commitments to God.
Remaining loyal to “America” is better termed as the principles upon which it was founded.
Even the founding fathers understood this distinction... “Here is your republic.. if you can keep it.”
How about more billions for Ukraine, that’s okay right?
There is a reason you know what I am asking.
Search your conscience and ask.
Is there a single criticism which is not answered by accusations of innate hatred?
Exactly the type of accusations made against MAGA and white people? And exactly the same intolerance for reasonable discussion? Just vituperation.
How many people self-censor, not even permitting themselves to consider any issue, to avoid name calling? Isn’t this the precise ongoing powerful issue facing MAGA and white people? The unanswerable accusation? The psychological circumstance which is a continual source ongoing defeat for MAGA and white people?
I’m loyal to the Judeo-Christian America that recognizes Israel as an important ally and a source of blessing from God when we help it. If we stop helping it, then we are bringing a curse from God upon ourselves as per the Holy Scriptures.
If America throws away everything that makes it America, there will be no America to be loyal to.
It’s the sticks and stones you have to watch out for, not the name-calling.
Loyalty to America is loyalty to the service of others, protection of individual rights and the rule of laws.
Good answer.
“It is okay to ALSO favor decent treatment of Israel and to shield her from muslims and their atrocities.”
Answer yourself. Is there any shortage of criticism of muslim atrocities, criticism deservedly so?
Is it OK to favor decent treatment of MAGA people and white people?
Just for example, is it OK to be white? Will you say so?
Examine your conscience. How is decency and name calling apportioned in there?
It wouldn’t be America anymore. So my loyalty would not be in question. I am loyal to the idea of America as originally founded.
Another closely equivalent word is allegiance.
“I’m loyal to the Judeo-Christian America”
There is no such thing as Judeo-Christian. This absurd phrase is brainwashing.
Jesus was the Son of God, sent to save us, crucified and resurrected. That is Christian.
Anyone who does not believe that cannot be attached to Christianity in any respect, even if it feels good and sounds virtuous. Maybe it protects from name calling.
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