Blind Faith

It always makes me laugh just a bit when I hear people talking about “our God-given country.” If you believe in God in the way that most Christians do, you believe in one singular deity. Which is fine but to believe in any way that God gave us this country is just a bit silly. Wasn’t the idea of separate countries created by men? If you believe in such things, God gave us this world as a whole without borders or government.

I know that everyone gets super sentimental and “spiritual” remembering the events of September 11^th, 2001 but the differences in our religious beliefs is what caused those events to happen and in turn caused the last ten plus years of war. Now keep in mind this war of beliefs has been fought through battles ranging over the last one thousand years.

This is not meant as any disrespect to those who lost their lives and/or their loved ones in the events of 9/11. But if we are to learn and grow from the past we need to understand why they happened. In my opinion, blind faith is the root cause of most of our world’s problems. Blind faith breeds negativity on a devastating level.

I guess the logical part of my brain gets too involved when I try to understand the ideals of religion and government. “God bless America” is a blind blanket statement to enforce a sense of nationalism. But isn’t a nationalistic point of view what got the world in trouble during World War II? I mean we are not killing millions and millions of people in order to eradicate them from existence but we as a country need to be cautious with how we’re viewed. Its citizens call America the greatest country in the world, but I can tell you from first-hand experience that the rest of the world does not see it that way. Every great empire has fallen and fallen hard, and as the youngest country in the world we are like teenagers going through puberty: picking fights, growing out of control, and have no idea of the grand scheme of things.