Is God only on America's side? Or is that just what the republicans want us to think?

Question

I dont get it. "god bless America and no other land"? It's like a football player scoring a touchdown and prayin. God was on his side, but not the other teams side?

so god is on America's side, but no one elses?

god bless America and no other land. How self righteous is the pledge of Allegiance? pretty darn arrogant if you ask me. But what else would you expect from a bucnh of god fearing folks that kill in gods name.

I really have doubts that she (god) would care who is doing what. but she is probably a little upset that the war mongering, fear mongoring fundies use her name to justify all the killing they do.

hmm.. killing in God's name. Now thats a new one. Great going Bushies.

I'm sure she is a little upset about the entire Bush scam saying she told bush to kill Iraqi's in her name. Let alone all the American soldeirs like my borther tht have died in vain.

Answer 1

Rep's are full of it!

They simply insult peoples intelligence by this statement!!



God is on their side! YET, their party "Only" represents racism, hatred, killing and expanding hypocrisy and partisanship!



And don't get me started on bushy!!

Answer 2

God is on everyones side and the republicans can't make us believe he isn't unless we literally believe them.I mean what does it matter anyway too many people don't even believe there is a god so why care?I was in a chat room yesterday and just by saying godbless when I left the room started this huge controvery.Its bad enough people have something against people like me because I am gay.But it is even worse that so many have turned their backs on the man who gave us life in the first place.Bush is a jackass plain and simple and I personally can't wait for him to be out!He is planning to invade Iran next and that is yet 1 of the 1,000 stupid things he has done.Once again I am so sorry for you your brother should still be alive as should all the other soldiers who have sacrificed their lives as your brother did.I say godbless him and i don't care if anyone has a problem with the word.Its bad enough people have issues with me because I am gay and a Christian.The world is crazy plain and simple.

Answer 3

Everyone thinks God is on their side. For instance, the people in the part of the country I live in are considered to be in the Bible Belt and the Confederacy. Look at the maps, they're almost identical.



Europe, Africa, the Middle East, no matter where you go, you'll find someone waging war for their god.



As a former Marine, I'm going to have to go with the 1954 version, which is very much like the original.



"I pledge allegiance to the Flag

of the United States of America,

and to the Republic for which it stands:

one Nation under God, indivisible,

With Liberty and Justice for all."



I don't know if I completely believe anything from any one particular religion, but I say the God part because my roots are here and the nation was formed by settlers fleeing religious persecution.

Answer 4

You make a valid point. What makes American Republicans believe that God is only on their side? Have they ever considered that God might be siding with the Iraqis? Christianity is not the only 'true' religion on this messed-up planet. Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists - even agnostics and atheists - are all part of this world's make-up, and might be as 'right' as the rest of us!

Be it an evolutionary 'big bang' theory; an intelligent designer; God or Nature - the fact that American Republicans believe their God is the only 'true' god is just one more indication of how our avarice, arrogance, evil, corruption, sloth, and hubris has set in; like the great Roman and Greek empires before us, American will surely perish - sooner rather than later. -RKO- 09/07/07

Answer 5

Is this a question or a statement?

God is on all peoples side; supporting the individual moral fiber and virtues humans are capable of exhibiting, not the political philosophy from which the individual emanates.

Your brother didn't die in vain as he supposedly died supporting an ideal he believed in, not because he thought God was telling him to do it. If your brother died following the virtues expressed by God, then God supported him in life as well as death.

Rather than "genderizing" God, maybe we should consider the awesome spirit, love, and virtue the term "God" represents.

Answer 6

God created the universe and the earth along with it but He doesn't care what happens to the animals on the face of the earth. He put us here as an experiment to see how long we can last before we blow up the planet. He does not chose sides.

Answer 7

God who created all life and the stars is not on any governments side, they are all opposed to his kingdom, why would he support his enemies?



He doesn't recognize any other government but his own, tho he allows it for now, it is only temporary. remember why he allowed pharoah to rule for a while (for the sake of showing you my power and to have my name declared in all the earth).



These governments are living on borrowed time.check out 2 corithians 4:4 or REvelation 12:12 or Luke 4:1-8 and you will see another reason why he doesn't support any human government.



RRRRR

Answer 8

God is not a girl silly. God is on the side of the righteous(US , and other countries that agree with our world view) You don't expect him (God always spell with a capital G not a lower case g) to be on the side of barbarians who want you to live under a bed sheet, undergo sexual mutilation surgery, be beaten for laughing, dancing, singing, driving a car, getting a job, selecting a husband of your own choice, or choosing not to believe in God at all, now do you? Considering that those barbarians are not open to dialog or reason, I'm sure God doesn't mind us killing them in self defense in order to continue to work his will on earth.

Answer 9

Many people seem to think so. Actually I don't think God takes sides. He has given people the ablility to decide, to think, to act on their own. If He was not going to allow us to do that so He could manipulate or help one side over the other than He wouldn't have bothered making us this way. I doubt the Almighty would want killing done in His Name from either side.

Answer 10

Not really. Gore Vidal said, "We have one political party in this country; the property party. It has two right wings: The Republican and Democrat." The Dems just happen to be better hucksters of the snake oil to the avg. citizen.

Answer 11

Well, I agree with you that to say God is on a side of any person is like claiming a good luck charm. Truly God is on his own side and not ours unless our ways align with him.

Answer 12

Republicans/Conservatives believe God is on their side, not on America's side. Or anybody else's.

That idiot Coulter even wrote a 'best-seller' about Democrats called 'Godless'.

And how many idiot Conservatives bought this crappy book?

Answer 13

God is on nobody's side. He just knows and keeps the good people on his mind and heart

Answer 14

God is His own side.

Answer 15

We had God in WWII - we won



We lost God in every unprovoked war since then - and well - you have seen the results!

Answer 16

Your comments are delusional and libelous.



1) No one said "God bless America and no other land". That's all in your head.



2) Our pledge is, "Under God". That means that we are not ABOVE God, but subject to his will. What delusional version of the Pledge were YOU reading? Do you even know it? Do enough research to read what you are condemning before you spread such nonsense.



3) You've made your attitude toward our country somewhat clear. Why would we listen to you?



4) Arrogant? She remakes God into a female just to make a point (I am not suggesting God is male) and others are arrogant?



5) Name calling (I haven't called you names, but I have referred to your behavior, accurately), is a playground tactic. Please leave it there. It adds nothing to the debate here, and doesn't say much for your manners or ethics.



6) "great going bushies". Please stop using such worn and utterly boring clichés. It's not helping.



7) You can't prove President Bush is doing something wrong, so you spread unfounded rumors. Why would we just believe you? Who are you that we believe you rather than President Bush? What about any of the seditious, name-calling, rumor spreading, "guilty until proved innocent" behaviors is a credit to the speaker that we would believe them rather than the President of the United States, whether it is President Clinton (who went through similar nonsense)) or President Clinton?



8) The reason no one in government pays attention to such nonsense is because they KNOW IT IS NONSENSE! It has nothing to do with "ignoring the people" or whatever other slogans people use to subvert a democratic republic. The answer to YOUR VOTE, not to a bunch of rabble rousing playground escapees.



9) So God isn't on our side but is against President Bush.



Wow, projection is amazing, isn't it, folks.



Saddam and his people cheer at our deaths on 9/11, try to kill one of our Presidents, attack our allies (Kuwait and Israel) and call for our destruction.



And we're fighting in vain,...



Folks. Iraq is the biggest fly trap in the world and we are killing six of them for every one of our loses. We've lost FEWER people in President Bush's two terms than the two full terms of President Clinton (no disrespect for him, as he was doing his best for us as well), and the enemy DESPERATELY WANTS US TO LEAVE!



I've chosen sides in WWIII. Have you? This poster seems to have.

Answer 17

winston churchill once said we should nopt hope that god is on our side but hope that we are on the side of god dying in battle is important

Answer 18

The fundamentalist christian conservative concept of God is so contradictory and nonsensical it's hard to believe that they can't see it, even with their tenuous and fragile grasp on reality.



Religious people have always been good at finding justification for their actions.

Answer 19

God is imaginary. People believing in god is what got us into the whole mess in the first place.

Answer 20

they sincerely believe that, that's why god damns them

Answer 21

GOD is your best friend

Answer 22

God is great for propaganda... on all sides. So is watching professional sports.

Answer 23

while bush is a cowardly fool and incompetent president DO NOT THINK OF YOUR BROTHERS SERVICE AS IN VAIN HE DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY NOT BUSH

Answer 24

God is not on anybody's side, it is up to us to choose to be on His side.



You clearly don't understand God. You clearly don't understand Republicans. You clearly don't understand America. You clearly don't understand reality.



Grow up and get an education.

Answer 25

god is on bin laden's side cuz they behead peoples head which god says its good says in the yushakin bible

Answer 26

It's funny, we live in a Democracy not a Theocracy, why don't people understand?