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To: D Joyce
But why America.

God is not an America he does not have a American mindset he has a global mindset, so is America more wicked than China, more evil than Iraq, more corrupt than Nigeria.

So God will punish America for living fast, for allowing Gays and Single Moms, but what about countries that allow for the starving to death of thousands of children everyday world wide they don’t even get a look in.

That is why I don’t agree with this thread because deep down it is nothing about God and everything about America.

America is the most powerful nation on earth both economically and militarily but it is not heaven on earth and Americans are not gods chosen people. Have you as a people grown so arrogant in your own believe that you have fallen into the same way of think as my country did at the height of empire when we stated that God was an English man

Tony

207 posted on 10/30/2001 7:17:41 AM PST by tonycavanagh
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To: tonycavanagh
...that you have fallen into the same way of think as my country did at the height of empire when we stated that God was an English man...

You mean He isn't?

But seriously, you're right about a few things. God is not an American. He's a Scot. LOL, just kidding.

But seriously (and I'm serious this time), I don't believe God punished the U.S. with 9/11. I DO, believe, however, that God uses things that have happened as an opportunity to bring us closer to Him. As C.S. Lewis said, "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

On the other hand, though, while I don't believe Americans are God's "chosen people" per se (that we are anointed in any special way), we are, in fact, the most powerful nation on the earth, which means we have an opportunity to do great good. Or great evil. But when it comes down to it, God will still judge individual souls, and you don't get bonus points for being a citizen of any particular country.

221 posted on 09/11/2003 8:03:32 AM PDT by wimpycat (Down with Kooks and Kookery!)
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