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I got into an argument with my mother today. It started during the sermon I was barely listening to, when I heard the pastor say that the sign of corruption in our government, among a few other things, was a sign that this nation was moving away from God.
I turn to mom and comment, "Corruption in the government isn't new."
To which, she eventually comments back, "No, but when this nation was founded, it was pure, and now it's not anymore."
I... I could say so many things about how not true that is. I did, actually. I told her that was completely untrue.
This nation was initially founded on a lot of talk, but our first action as a free government was to make sure absolutely everyone except the white, property holding male was screwed over and left without a voice. Corruption was always present in our government, and in its policies. Besides, if you are talking about a rule by the people and for the people, Greece did that first. We blatantly pulled from them and Rome when we were designing our government.
We are copycats.
Besides, in the ancient days, kings and queens used to claim they ruled by divine right, and were treated almost as gods themselves. Because they claimed it, as she is claiming our country was founded under the Christian god, does that mean that monarchies were purer governments?
I was just caught off guard by how unnecessary this sentiment really is. There's nothing in the Bible that says a nation must be pure to start off with to be worthy of saving. There is nothing that says "unless you have a mission of saving your wayward country from hell, you're not a good Christian."
I don't believe there's anything in there about holding the founding fathers of your country (which, btw, George Washington practiced adultery, unless you want to say that slavery is totally right and that sleeping with his female slaves doesn't count) on a pedestal that no person in this country can possibly attain.
I don't know. Mom finished the conversation by saying she prays that God opens up my eyes.
Mom, my eyes are open. I know history. America was never "pure," by any standards of the word.
I turn to mom and comment, "Corruption in the government isn't new."
To which, she eventually comments back, "No, but when this nation was founded, it was pure, and now it's not anymore."
I... I could say so many things about how not true that is. I did, actually. I told her that was completely untrue.
This nation was initially founded on a lot of talk, but our first action as a free government was to make sure absolutely everyone except the white, property holding male was screwed over and left without a voice. Corruption was always present in our government, and in its policies. Besides, if you are talking about a rule by the people and for the people, Greece did that first. We blatantly pulled from them and Rome when we were designing our government.
We are copycats.
Besides, in the ancient days, kings and queens used to claim they ruled by divine right, and were treated almost as gods themselves. Because they claimed it, as she is claiming our country was founded under the Christian god, does that mean that monarchies were purer governments?
I was just caught off guard by how unnecessary this sentiment really is. There's nothing in the Bible that says a nation must be pure to start off with to be worthy of saving. There is nothing that says "unless you have a mission of saving your wayward country from hell, you're not a good Christian."
I don't believe there's anything in there about holding the founding fathers of your country (which, btw, George Washington practiced adultery, unless you want to say that slavery is totally right and that sleeping with his female slaves doesn't count) on a pedestal that no person in this country can possibly attain.
I don't know. Mom finished the conversation by saying she prays that God opens up my eyes.
Mom, my eyes are open. I know history. America was never "pure," by any standards of the word.