Except it’s BAD. Comparing it to America the Beautiful is like comparing Stephanie Meyer to JK Rowling.
I mean, I hear ya. Don’t get me wrong. And God bless ya for hearing it that way. And I pray some day the bitter left will hear in it what you do. But for it’s good intentions, or at least its worthwhile aping of good intentions, it’s just poorly written.
“Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us.”
Was your faith taught to you by a dark past?
“Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;”
If your hope is rooted in the present, do you need to now turn to your hope?
“Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, let us march on”
Are you marching against the Sun? Won’t that hurt your eyes?
“Bitter the chastening rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died” So your hope is dead? Was it a miscarriage, or the victim of abortion?
“We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,” That seems disrespectful of the dead, no?
BKMK for later