America's 'Terrible Thing' (Get ready to puke)

The statement comes in the very verses of Exodus that define the covenant God makes with Moses and his harried people. ''I shall do marvels," God promises. But it is the certainty of ''the terrible thing" that defines this relationship going forward. The terrible thing, first, of permanent war against the Amorites, the Canaanites, and their eternal successors. The terrible thing, existentially, of living without idols. The terrible thing of the Law, which all inevitably violate. The terrible thing of being forced to face the truth, a mandate God gives by example with this stark declaration at the outset. In the United States of America, a terrible thing shapes our relationship to the world, but we do not admit it, not even on its unhappy anniversary. Sixty years ago this week, American B-29s named Enola Gay and Bock's Car dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities. The men responsible insisted, in the face of shocking devastation, that the bombs were not so terrible.

Stuff It Mr Carrol,you Ignorant Jackass

http://www.centurychina.com/wiihist/japcrime/

This is simply disgusting.

God delivered an oppressed poeple from slavery. It was only when they turned away from him that they suffered.

We dropped nukes on Japan to end a war that was forced on us and was claiming thousands of American lives. We did it because the war had to end, and there was no better way for us to end it.

In Iraq we have destroyed what that country was, which is a very good thing. Sadam murdered millions. Despite the terrorists at work there attempting to pull down the fledgling democracy the people of Iraq are generally safer now than they were. They also have something now that the did not have before. They have hope.

That's why the Iraqi people line up to become police in defiance of the terrorists that have killed many in such lines.

That's why the Iraqi people turned out to vote in their elections despite the danger to they put themselves while doing so.

If you look at the examples he gives and can only see the terrible, and not the good that outweighs what had to be done, then you are too filled with hate to accept the truth.

I don't know what these liberal pundits hate about the US so much that they have to try and tear down anything possitive that we do.

However, what they are really fighting against is hope, and that is something that they can't destroy. If they ever succeed in doing so, then the world itself is doomed.

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