OUR LADY OF THE HOLY UNITED STATES?

Interesting little piece out of England. An editorial in The Guardian by George Monboit claims that the United States is no longer a nation but a religion. This coming from a country that has a state sponsored religion, the Church of England. Monboit in French means “my drinks” and it seams Georgie has been hitting the bottle.

He starts off by listing our “failures” in Iraq, which consists of our soldiers being shot in sniper attacks. If Drunk George considers cowardly attacks on American soldiers in a war zone failures, what must he think of the German bombing campaign on British soil during WWII, abject defeat? He then goes on to say because the United States hasn’t sued for peace over our failures, we must all be ideological zealots. He finds our belief that we can actually do good in the world some kind of religious fervor bordering on insanity.

He quotes Ronald Reagan’s “shining city on a hill” comment about the United States, George Bush quoting the bible and telling the troops, “Wherever you go, you carry a message of hope - a message that is ancient and ever new. In the words of the prophet Isaiah, 'To the captives, "come out," and to those in darkness, "be free".'" and Bush’s suggestion that the United States, "defend ... the hopes of all mankind".

This seems like scary religion-talk to someone whose religion is purely secular. Once a person or country abandons the thought of a higher power and purpose, they become a country of living for the moment, of expediency and power-madness. We can see that in the Democrat party right now and we had blaring examples of that in Communism. Once atheistic Communism took hold in China, Russia, Cambodia, etc. we had pure evil.

For the past century, the United States has had to step in and do what is right in various conflicts. We have deposed of despots and tyrants across the world and never tried to make these countries into Little America. We have done what was right. And where does right and wrong come from? The House of Lords or the House of Representatives? No, it comes from morality. It is this concept that is so alien to liberals that they feel it must some sort of religious zealotry, akin to snake handling and voodoo.

So George, why don’t you go back to the bottle and leave the concept of right and wrong to people who know better. Your Godless, amoral ways are not the way to do good in the world, they lead to pain, suffering, enslavement and horror.