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For over 100 years the United States has been the vanguard in the fight against oppression and megalomanic warlords such as Hitler and Stalin. Most of Europe would be under the 'JackBoot' of Germany or of Stalin's murderous U.S.S.R., had it not been for ''THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH', the United States of America. When natural disasters occur in the world American humanitarian aid is usually the first to arrive in the stricken areas and the generosity of their foreign aid programme is second to none. Present day aggressors are kept in check simply as a consequence of the presence of the U.S., whom they know would not stand idly by and permit the bullying of small nations by more powerful aggressors. For instance, if the U.S, weren't around China would have long since ''appropriated'' most of the mineral rich South China Sea. The world would be a significantly more dangerous and poorer place without the GREAT UNITED STATES. God Bless America.
“The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained” .... George Washington
“It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.” .... George Washington
............................... but we're falling hard and fast ... our days are indeed numbered
This country is still the greatest and is not falling hard or fast. But luckily for us, the fundamentalist Christian movement and the bigotry they often seem to respect and admire IS falling fast.
As far as those eternal rules if order? Do you mean like these?
You're an arsonist. You know you committed arson, you bragged about it in detail here. You got off way to lightly, but you sure didn't get off. That baggage is going to pull you down, your sin is going to pull you down to Hell if you keep trusting in deceptions.....Unity Church is evil, and it's pretty clear that you are threatening me for saying you are deceived and your church is an evil cult. I guess I'll have to do a detailed expose of the Unity Church cult, it's history, it's finances, and it's evil teachings. You can make your psychopathic threats and do whatever you think you can get away with. I've never backed down from a bully and never will.
It's much more likely that the demons you want to put on me are going to turn around and bite you before they get anywhere near me.
I Demon Hunter hereby claim for the written record that I am not threatening you. When I say to be careful it is because I have a persistent premonition that some bad fate will befall you. And in the not too distant future.
I hope I am wrong. But in the past when I have had these dreams they have usually come true.
be careful old man. I wish you well.
I never committed arson. ask the Court!
do your so called expose on us. I will love to read it. I am proud of my church. Our community loves us. We served aver 1000 homeless men women and children this past weekend. We work with Habitat for Humanity. We welcome all and God is my Father and Mother and I all I want to do is Serve. So I serve by finding Evil (and false prophets) who du good people harm and then I.....well, terminate their harm to us. CoS is evil and is NOT a recognized church and have an evil history of violence. they assaulted my sister, they are the ones who got off easy.
by defending them and condemning me--a true Warrior--you show TWO things: you are a Coward and you walk in Evil like a wolf in sheeps clothes.
Your "persistent premonition that some bad fate will befall" me makes you a prime suspect if anything violent happens to me. You're an idiot, your demons are going to devour you.
I do not defend Church of Satan and I think rapists should be put to death. I think Church of Satan should be outlawed. I also think Unity Church should be outlawed because it is a demonic cult. I think you fit in at Church of Satan just as well as at Unity Church.
I really see no difference between them, they are branches of the same evil tree.
Who cares??????? Unity Church is a cult teaching doctrines of demons from Hell, it's anti-Christ claiming to be Christian, and you are sociopathic psychopath likely to seriously injure or kill real Christians as you bragged about doing it before. I think you will go off big time eventually if God permits.
I've lost interest in your garbage. One of these days I'll do an expose of Unity in a discussion.
a sociopathic psychopath? is that a real diagnosis or are you speaking out of your anus again? as you do with your theology and in speaking of my Church?
let's see...I am a business owner; member of out City Council; member of our town's SBA (small biz assoc.) a college grad, married to an educator, and in-line for a prestigious seminary slot this Fall. Last time I had it checked my IQ was 138. God loves me so much He Saved me with Powerful Vision that only a handful of people of each generation are privy to receiving.
hardly seems like a psychopath. and even the court-mandated shrink said I was NOT one, only that I was suffering from emotional turmoil from the assault of my dear sister, which lead to an isolated instance of rash behavior. (her exact words.)
I think I will take the words of a trained MD over that of an internet religious wacko and ex-drunk like you. but thanks anyway.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. You never have fooled me. You're twisted and you are going to fall by your own devices, you're bringing your own evil against yourself, only going against your own life, riding that freight train full speed ahead into the flaming gates of Hell which you think is into the presence of God. You are nutso, a psycho in delusions of grandeur. I feel sorry for you, you are destroying yourself pushing full steam ahead toward the fire of Hell.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. You never have fooled me. You're twisted and you are going to fall by your own devices, you're bringing your own evil against yourself, only going against your own life, riding that freight train full speed ahead into the flaming gates of Hell which you think is into the presence of God. You are nutso, a psycho in delusions of grandeur. I feel sorry for you, you are destroying yourself pushing full steam ahead toward the fire of Hell.
This coming from a hypocrite who supports KILLING viable unborn late term babies when you vote for Democrats.
Christians were the main group of people fighting to end slavery in this nation. Democrats supported slavery just a few hundred years ago.
You support aborting viable babies up to birth with your vote while decrying what you call slavery thousands of years ago durng a time when people would have probably died were it not for someone taking them as a servant. I bet some people were begging to be so called slaves during that time.
slavery entails forcing suffering on a cognizant and sentient and feeling fully developed human being for many years.
with abortion it cannot even be proved and never has that the fetus suffers any pain or is even capable of it.
I am Pro Choice and I am ANTI SLAVERY and I am a Born Again Christian and NOT a hypocrite. A hypocrite says one tings and does another. I just gave you my proof that slavery and abortion are different and not the same.
so, not the same = NOT a Hypocrite = I win and you lose and hahah and God Bless!
You are correct, slavery and abortion are not the same thing. Abortion of late term viable babies is KILLING a sentient human life. It is worse than slavery.
Democrats support kiling viable babies all the way up to birth. THEY DO FEEL PAIN when they are so late in pregnancy!
You are not fooling anyone, especially God who you claim to put faith in.
Are you another idiot? I called him a hypocrite because he piously rants about so called slavery in the Bible while he supports infanticide! I'm sure you think the same way!
It's such a joke to listen to people on the left piously claiming they are the compassionate ones while the truth shows them to be much more inhuman then those they judge.
Your just calling him an idiot and hypocrite because you disagree with his views. Liberals have different perspective, so you can hardly get mad at them.
I don't call people idiots for simply expressing their views. I call them an idiot when they try to label bible believing christians as racists and supporting of slavery, while this same person supports KILLING innocent viable late term babies for any reason when they vote for Democrats who support it. There is not one Christian I have ever heard of in this nation today that supports slavery but idiots keep spewing the lies!
USA is the greatest nation about military and political power. It has the newest weapons. The currency that people use the most is dollar. It is motive thing to operate the world's economic system. Many public are interested in president election of USA.
The U.S is founded on the greatest political principles on Earth. That's what our greatness is composed of and where it springs from. The extent to which other countries around the world have adopted these political principles, is the extent to which they have risen in greatness in their own right. The values of America are not unique to the United States. What is unique is how far we went in adopting he principles of the enlightenment. The fact that we were basically the first to do it is kind of a petty bragging right, though it is true.
I wish more countries thought that they were the greatest nation. A sense of national pride can do a lot to lift up a people. So long as they have a keen sense of justice, national pride is mostly beneficial. The world would be a better place if more people had as much pride in their nation as Americans tend to have in ours.
You bet it is ! But those that believe it isn't should get the HELL OUT ! Go find yourself a good MUSLIM country to move to and take your LGBT with you and see how well that works out for you !
I'm proud to be a US citizen and I believe our nation has overall been a great both domestically and internationally. But "greatest"? Let's test that.
In North America it's not a bad argument that Canada is just as great if not better. Heck, when Americans are unpopular abroad they often like to lie and say they're Canadian. That tells you something.
In Europe there are literally dozens of countries richer in history, culture, and modernity. And it's lessons from those countries which combined to build our own Constitution. We can't take sole credit for that.
In Asia, China is the giant of history and remains the giant today. Odds are 500 years after the USA implodes and eats itself that China will still be going strong.
Anyway, we're pretty great. We're also full of ourselves. There's a lot of other greats out there, too.
I agree we are a great country. We have had some problems in the past but this in normal and even unavoidable. All part of a cycle, as all great nations go into. We will soon be back on top.
I have a question to you: you claim that we are not treated well abroad. so I ask you if you yourself has ever traveled? I have, quite a bit. and I have seen that Americans are treated no worse than other tourists so long as they show respect to their hosts. France is a prime example, a country I've heard many Americans say is rude to us. most who say this have never been. I have been twice, each time for about two weeks, and been in about six different towns and cities. I never had any problem with the French and even found them more friendly than some I could name.
You're right, I was repeating hearsay. I've been to Canada but not abroad. It's probably true that the majority of Americans are treated the same as the rest of the world, with the exception of those areas actively at war.
Obviously it would depend on what a persons standard for greatness is. What I like about you Canadian comment is that Canadians will often say they are Americans unless they think it would be unpopular, then they are Canadian. That tells you something different.
Arguably, yes .... arguably, no. We TRY to be, and we should be proud of that, however, arrogance is NEVER great, (look at The Donald....), and WE have done some terrible things, things that can only be done by a powerful, arrogant country!
Are we ONE of the greatest ....undoubtedly, yes. To BE the greatest we would have to be judged that by the rest of the world. We have a ways to go .... we HAD it .... lost it ....have to get it back. We are NOT going to get it back with "walls" and arrogance, name calling, belittling, forcing OUR beliefs down the throats of others.
Any nation can consider themselves "great". Nazi Germany considered themselves great, even "supermen". The rest of the world didn't think so! I worked for a large German company for the last 18 years of working career, they STILL think they are greater than anyone else. Yes, it's up to the rest of the world, WE can't be great "in our own minds", it has to be in the minds of the world!
its a great nation but not the greatest, Britain was the greatest but not anymore, for me I would lean more towards Australia being the greatest nation on earth and that hurts as a proud Englishman.
It's a pompous statement, vague and means nothing. What is great depends on who you are asking. Maybe what we should ask is what we can do to do better.
