Would God Ever Damn America?

*nhboy* ^(Premo) · 03-31-2008, 08:50 PM

"Many religious leaders prophesy divine retribution for America's bad behavior. I wonder what we would be punished for."

"Would God ever damn America? Is there anything we have done or could do as a nation that might court such severe judgment from the Almighty, or is there a peculiar American exemption from God's wrath? The prediction of God's damnation for bad behavior is made in both black and white churches.

One authority on such matters, the Rev. Pat Robertson, didn't think the latter when he blamed the ravaging effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Lord's retribution against those who "shed innocent blood." Robertson's reference to legalized abortion cited a passage from Leviticus that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright also might have been thinking of when he sermonized: "The government ... wants us to sing 'God Bless America?' No, no, no ... God damn America! That's in the Bible for killing innocent people," a reference to African-Americans sacrificed on ghetto streets.

While the "innocents" about whom they spoke are different, the scriptural reference seems to be the same. As Robertson put it, in a statement preserved in a video clip posted on the Internet by Media Matters: "I was reading yesterday ... about what God has to say in the Old Testament about those who shed innocent blood ... 'The land will vomit you out,'" which he related to attacks "either by terrorists or now by natural disaster."

Robertson, a firm ally of Republican administrations, has not always been warm to the presumed GOP presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain, although the two recently mended their strained relationship. However, in this season of pastor-baiting, McCain has his own problem, having expressed his thrill in receiving "the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee."

Would God Ever Damn America?

Marie · 03-31-2008, 10:06 PM

[quote=nhboy;2832699]"Many religious leaders prophesy divine retribution for America's bad behavior. I wonder what we would be punished for."
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Well personally I think Pat Robertson went around the bend along time ago, he's famous for making wacko comments. So putting him in the same company as Shirley Phelps of the Westbro Baptist Church (Lunatics) isnt such a big stretch.

To answer the question though we went from a nation that Honored God were we saw his name at the forfront of our legal system and our national identy. To a clone of England, that cant get rid of him soon enough and is trying to errase his name out of exsistance.You can thank Secular Humanism and the ACLU for that! We've turned our back on God rejected him and his law. We kill innocent babies and throw them, and other Body parts in dumsters and theres not even a law against that!
If that isnt gross enough you can see pictures!

Digital Journal - Parts of Aborted Fetuses Found In a Dumpster Outside Abortion Clinic

At some point we will pay for that sin, but I tend to think it will be individually rather than corporately as a nation, as these are just signs of the times and its going to get A lot worse and never better. I dont forsee any true Christian revial again for this nation.

Starman3000m · 04-01-2008, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by nhboy

"Many religious leaders prophesy divine retribution for America's bad behavior. I wonder what we would be punished for."

Hmmm... let's see:

1. Social Unbelief: Theory of Evolution;

2. Social Resistance: Taking prayer out of the classroom and prohibiting the teaching of Creationism in public schools;

3. Social Pressure to remove references to God in any public gathering;

4. Religious "Political correctness" to deny God's Plan of Salvation through the atoning blood of Christ as mentioned in (John 14:6) and claim that all religions lead to God.

...just to name a few.

It has already been prohesied that this would happen:

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, (2 Timothy 3:1-3)

But God still offers people the opportunity to be blessed by Him:

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

Will America turn to God for guidance or continue to turn God away?