"God created the United States to lead the world."

[ВАЛТЕР]

It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.


http://morallowground.com/2011/10/08/mitt-romney-god-created-the-united-states-to-lead-the-world/

[Caj]

The religious fanaticism of so many of these presidential candidates scares the shit out of me...

[ColonelCossack]

They are seriously getting like nazi germany. Except not as bad. But still...

[ComradeMan]

It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
:blink:

I thought that was Israel.....

Isaiah 49:6 "Yea, He saith, 'It is too light a thing for you to be My servant, to establish the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the scions of Israel, and I shall submit you as a light unto the nations, to be My salvation until the end of the earth' "
;)

[ZeroNowhere]

I created the United States because I was drunk.

[Veovis]

I created the United States because I was drunk.

Well, you did a shitty job. :p

[xub3rn00dlex]

I created the United States because I was drunk.

Stop taking credit for my creation! I created the United States to escape those noisy european commies!

[ВАЛТЕР]

They are seriously getting like nazi germany. Except not as bad. But still...

"Fascism is Capitalism in decay."

-Lenin

[MattShizzle]

People take idiots like this seriously here. In most of Europe someone saying such a thing would be laughed at and have no chance of election.

[Stalin Ate My Homework]

If they want to play the God card then we will have to tell em' God sent Marx to liberate the working class, same logic.:lol:

[Seth]

Arms manufacturers are licking their chops I'm sure.

[Kitty_Paine]

Sounds kind of similar to:

"Let them hate us so long as they fear us." - Caligula, Roman Emperor

"Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all." - Adolf Hitler


Yeah, we all know how both of those ended... I don't think It'll be too much longer...

[Zealot]

Didn't every empire of times past claim this? And look where they are now... a paragraph in a history book. Have these idiots not learnt anything? Arrogant fascist, must be an irl troll.

[ComradeMan]

...

Proverbs 16:18 "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall."

[TheGodlessUtopian]

People take idiots like this seriously here. In most of Europe someone saying such a thing would be laughed at and have no chance of election.

This is true but you must remember that America isn't Europe.

Last year in English my teacher would recall us with tales about how the electoral figures in europe would never say anything like the politicans in America would and how she was continuously surprised at the people elected in the United States.Evidently in Europe the bourgeois propaganda is strong but not "extra strength" like in America ( "Would you like more religious fanaticism in your politics?" ..."Why yes I would").

She was surprised that Ronald Reagen was elected.:lol:

[molotovcocktail]

If god created a country, god would have made a better country than the USA

[ComradeMan]

This is true but you must remember that America isn't Europe.

How could we possibly forget....? ;)

[tir1944]

Europe>America.
Sorry,but it's true.

[ComradeMan]

Europe>America.
Sorry,but it's true.

Which means? I don't follow here... are you saying Europe is greater than America? I don't think we can make value judgements like that- there's a lot wrong with America but I don't buy into this bash all of America all the time either... certainly not attacking Americans per se.

[ColonelCossack]

Europe>America.
Sorry,but it's true.

Actually, America is slightly bigger than Europe.
Trollololol

Only jokingwhy do i always put spoilers inside spoilers?Da fok?


Edit: I just made that my sig. finally. Thanks, shirley.

[Bud Struggle]

Stop it. The United States is a winner in this world. And as materialists--that is all that counts.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Actually there may be some truth to the proposal mentioned by the OP. Yes the US is the major imperialist power today but...

ever notice how strange it was how the American colonists beat the British? The British had the greatest army in the world at the time, Washington was not really a sterling general,and its a myth that the colonists were fighting on their home ground-the Continental Army soldiers were often far from home. The Muricans lost all the battles but won the war.

The classic bourgeois revolutions, from 1789 to 1848 probably woundn't have occured w/out the Murican's example. Ever think of that? Huh? Huh?

The socialist revolution will occur first in Murica within the next 10 years. Don't ask me how I know this, I just do. The Occupy # Movement is the faint beginning of what will become a vast upheaval.

Then, we'll liberate you Europeans. Although imperialism isn't possible under socialism, we'll spread our glorious proletarian culture.We;ll replace local cuisine with our People's Burgers.

..and some people think Divine Intervention is absurd!

[Le Socialiste]

Honestly, what else did you expect? Americans, by and large, value a politician who espouses beliefs that align with Christian fundamentalism as well as American exceptionalism. An atheist or secular politician wouldn't even make it past the first round of primaries. :crying:

[hatzel]

People's Burgers

I hope they're tastier than the Burgher's Burgers :cool:

(Fun fact: the word 'burgher' was actually used in a headline in my local paper not long ago. It was always clear it was directed at an older audience, but I didn't know 'older' meant '16th century'...)

[Zostrianos]

"'When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and waving a cross"

[Zostrianos]

Their god also hates the poor, opposes social benefits for the needy, supports big business, wants the rich to be exempt of taxes, and thinks the planet should be completely exploited for its resources.

[Kitty_Paine]

ever notice how strange it was how the American colonists beat the British? The British had the greatest army in the world at the time, Washington was not really a sterling general,and its a myth that the colonists were fighting on their home ground-the Continental Army soldiers were often far from home. The Muricans lost all the battles but won the war.

Well, I don't think it's strange at all why the colonists won... The French. You know, La Fayette and the French Navy, etc... Never would have happened without them...



The classic bourgeois revolutions, from 1789 to 1848 probably woundn't have occured w/out the Murican's example. Ever think of that? Huh? Huh?


No it's true, The American Revolution had a lot to do with the inspiration of the French Revolution. La Fayette brought back a lot of new ideas about liberty, the rights of men, etc. having to do with the Enlightenment period. And Thomas Paine was a huge influence on the revolution writting The Rights of Man... anyway, I'm just rambling now...

So I think it's safe to assume the French Revolution would have never happened (or at least not for several years later) if the American Revolution was not successful...

[ComradeMan]

Actually there may be some truth to the proposal mentioned by the OP. Yes the US is the major imperialist power today but...ever notice how strange it was how the American colonists beat the British?....

Except most of them were English until they won and then became "Americans".... :lol: It was basically an English "civil war" fought on American soil.

[WeAreReborn]

Except most of them were English until they won and then became "Americans".... :lol: It was basically an English "civil war" fought on American soil.
It was more of a war of Independence. The reason they wanted independence because the most influential Americans got extremely rich off smuggling and dodging taxes and didn't want to lose any money.

[Commissar Rykov]

Their god also hates the poor, opposes social benefits for the needy, supports big business, wants the rich to be exempt of taxes, and thinks the planet should be completely exploited for its resources.
Their God sure does sound an awful lot like a Goldman-Sachs CEO.

[GatesofLenin]

Their God sure does sound an awful lot like a Goldman-Sachs CEO.

Or any of the numerous CEO's.

[Yuppie Grinder]

Stop it. The United States is a winner in this world. And as materialists--that is all that counts.
You seriously seem to not know what the word materialist means. I've seen you use it a few times in ways that don't make sense. I'm a materialist, and I thinking American imperialism is fucking evil.

[ColonelCossack]

You seriously seem to not know what the word materialist means. I've seen you use it a few times in ways that don't make sense. I'm a materialist, and I thinking American imperialism is fucking evil.

I think he thinks, like many others, that "materialist" means "consumerist".

[pax et aequalitas]

I hope they're tastier than the Burgher's Burgers :cool:

(Fun fact: the word 'burgher' was actually used in a headline in my local paper not long ago. It was always clear it was directed at an older audience, but I didn't know 'older' meant '16th century'...)

Actually in Dutch 'burger' means citizen

/randomfact

[Che a chara]

Right enough, I can actually see God woo-hooing and high-fiving after his plan to order white colonists to invade an innocent people to commit genocide and to enact racism and slavery came to fruition.

No wonder the US ruling/political elite can get away with and justify global exploitation, subjugation and any war crime under this banner of US 'exceptionalism' when such fucked up logic is espoused by them -- and lapped up and excused by many adherents.

[Metacomet]

Why did he wait so long (in the grand scheme of world history?)

[Metacomet]

Actually there may be some truth to the proposal mentioned by the OP. Yes the US is the major imperialist power today but...

ever notice how strange it was how the American colonists beat the British? The British had the greatest army in the world at the time, Washington was not really a sterling general,and its a myth that the colonists were fighting on their home ground-the Continental Army soldiers were often far from home. The Muricans lost all the battles but won the war.

The classic bourgeois revolutions, from 1789 to 1848 probably woundn't have occured w/out the Murican's example. Ever think of that? Huh? Huh?

The socialist revolution will occur first in Murica within the next 10 years. Don't ask me how I know this, I just do. The Occupy # Movement is the faint beginning of what will become a vast upheaval.

Then, we'll liberate you Europeans. Although imperialism isn't possible under socialism, we'll spread our glorious proletarian culture.We;ll replace local cuisine with our People's Burgers.

..and some people think Divine Intervention is absurd!

The British Army was not the greatest in the world.

France, Prussia, maybe even Austria and Russia had them beat in that regard.

[Zostrianos]

Of course God wants the US to lead the world. Everyone knows that Americans are such good Christians:

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[NormalG]

God also created people who deserve more than others and if you cant make ends meet youre just not working hard enough :closedeyes:

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

"God created the United States to lead the world."

How is that any more ridiculous than the notion that "God" created the world in the first place?

[Azraella]

"God created the United States to lead the world."


:huh:

This is so wrong.



When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.


To continue with words in the Declaration:



We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.


The Declaration echoes John Locke's idea that in the "state of nature," all human beings lived free and equal. Jefferson, in his many papers and correspondences throughout his life expressed a Deistic view of religion. Deists did not believe in miracles, revealed religion, the authority of the clergy, or the divinity of Jesus. Jefferson regarded ethics, not faith, as the essence of religion. Of course Deists believed in a creator, but thought that the original Creator no longer lived or did not play any part in the world or influenced the lives of people. That goes to the very reason why the American founding fathers knew that they (We the people) had to form the laws of the land, laws based on human reasoning.

Christians who go around claiming America as a Christian nation because of the few Judeo-Christian symbolic references found on various artifacts ("God" on coins, 10 Commandments in front of court houses, etc.) fail to realize that our founding fathers never intended our country to reflect Christian principles. They formed a secular government (the first in the world) in order to separate religion from politics.

[Franz Fanonipants]

If they want to play the God card then we will have to tell em' God sent Marx to liberate the working class, same logic.:lol:

agree unironically

[Iron Felix]

He's a Christian? I thought he was a Mormon. Or did they stop being a racket/sect and officially became accepted as Christians?

[ZeroNowhere]

How is that any more ridiculous than the notion that "God" created the world in the first place?
Because nationalism is ridiculous, and ridiculousness is commutative.

[Rooster]

People take idiots like this seriously here. In most of Europe someone saying such a thing would be laughed at and have no chance of election.

Hey, us Euros have our fair share of idiots. Has everyone forgotten Berlusconi already?

[MustCrushCapitalism]

Europe>America.
Sorry,but it's true.
Gotta agree there. If there was a god who created America, I'd be rather disappointed.

[Zostrianos]

For the last 20, the US Airforce taught a course on ethics and morality in war, and set forth what it calls the "Christian just war theory" i.e. that war is morally right from a Christian standpoint. They stopped the course this year after this got leaked, but it shows the despicable lengths that right wing fundies go to in order to manipulate US policy, especially in their favourite subject, overseas wars. Here's the report:
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[The Dark Side of the Moon]

where was the united states 2 thousand years ago?

[Le Rouge]

God Bless America!

We'rrre are living in Amerika! Amerika is wunderbarr!

[Zostrianos]

"OURS is a Christian army"; so he said
A regiment of bangomen who led.
"And ours a Christian navy," added he
Who sailed a thunder-junk upon the sea.
Better they know than men unwarlike do
What is an army, and a navy too.
Pray God there may be sent them by-and-by
The knowledge what a Christian is, and why.
For somewhat lamely the conception runs
Of a brass-buttoned Jesus firing guns."

- Arma Virumque, by Ambrose Bierce