War of The Word
Would God ever damn America? Is there anything we have done or could do as a nation that might court such severe judgment from an almighty, or is there a peculiar American exemption from God's wrath? The prediction of God's damnation for bad behavior is made in both black and white churches.
One authority on such matters, the Rev. Pat Robertson, didn't think the latter when he blamed the ravaging effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Lord's retribution against those who "shed innocent blood." Robertson's reference to legalized abortion cited a passage from Leviticus that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright also might have been thinking of when he sermonized: "The government...wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people," a reference to African-Americans sacrificed on ghetto streets. .... continued here: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080407/scheer
One authority on such matters, the Rev. Pat Robertson, didn't think the latter when he blamed the ravaging effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Lord's retribution against those who "shed innocent blood." Robertson's reference to legalized abortion cited a passage from Leviticus that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright also might have been thinking of when he sermonized: "The government...wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people," a reference to African-Americans sacrificed on ghetto streets. .... continued here: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080407/scheer
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