Bite me.
What got me onto this, of course the very Anglo-American persecution of their fellow Americans, including and especially American Indians, like the Ward Churchill (metaphoric) Lynching…
But after I published the bit about Malaysian students being forced to learn English by their Corporate Masters, a show came on and just ended about a half hour ago, comparing America to the Bible.
Claiming, and rightly in some cases, although as you can well imagine they didn’t use quite the same phrases or even the same concept, that some of the worst criminals in History and especially American History, men like Captain John Smith and Cotten Mather, Kings Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth 1st, King James etc etc… were inspired by the ENGLISH versions of the Bible, and that the Bible is the Sole Inspiration for Imperialism, American Style, that we’re (again with Cotten Mather, gotta love that jerk, he makes it EASY to hold my fellow Christian’s feet to the fire) “the Shining City on the Hill” with our Manifest Destiny to bring the Poor, Benighted Dark Skinned world to Americanism. oh, that’s right, they said “Christianity”.
America is NOT God and is not even a lower case “g” god.
It’s two continents.
Just because certain highly placed United States government officials believe that the term “America” applies exclusively to us, they also by coincidental occurrence believe that Christianity belongs Exclusively to the English as a RACE.
I’ve been in MAINSTREAM churches where this is often preached.
They preach that America is actually the “New Jerusalem” and the English RACE has taken over the position (through the silliest use of Transmogrification Magic that I personally have ever heard of) The New Chosen People of God.
Sarah Palin’s church, for instance, preaches that. Not the entire Assemblies Of God denomination but her church in particular.
Evangelic churches have one doctrine, the Priesthood of the Believer.
Like there’s no Baptist Pope.
In their mindset, criticizing American Foreign Policy or American Corporate Imperialism or American Racism, interchangeable concepts actually,
Is tantamount to Blaspheming against God Himself.
Feh.
I can turn that on it’s very illogical head and say that people who think that resistance to Imperialistic Racist Corporate Tyranny is Anti-American and Anti-Christian are defiling the Name of Christ with their dogmatic insistence on equating their Murderous Evil with His Name.
Taking God’s Name in Vain, in other words, the first instrument of any act of Blasphemy.
It figures prominently in what’s referred to as “God’s Top Ten No-No List”.
But the T.V. show, it was playing “America the Beautiful” in the background.
And preaching that the English language is the Savior of the World.
Funny thing about that is, Jesus didn’t speak any English and the English Language wouldn’t evolve into anything recognizable to anybody who doesn’t have at least a High School grasp of English for well over a thousand years.
The English people of His time had this really nasty practice of capturing Roman soldiers, putting them in wicker cages and lighting them on fire.
Legion X spent time in Anglia and Judea…
A LOT.
Tenth Legion. A Punishment Brigade.
Pontius Pilate himself was made governor of Judea because he pissed off the Emperor.
He was on Punishment Detail, too.
For those readers who’ve never been in the service, those would be the guys who you see picking up cigarette butts and raking the rocks on base.
Worse than that even, Legion X was usually your last chance as a soldier before being sold as a slave or simply crucified.
They’re THE only legitimate connection that can be claimed between Jesus and England in His time.