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William
Jefferson Clinton was used by God to mirror this nation, he
was used to show America what it had become, it was a Judgment
from God upon this Nation!
George
W. Bush was used by God to mirror the spiritual matter of this
nation, he was used to mirror America's soul, A Judgment
from God will come upon His Church!
September 11,
2001, should have been a wake up call, the sheep raised their
head for a moment, then went about their lives unaware God is soon
to bring judgement on this nation.
Since the attacks on New York, this notion of America the
divine has been extended and refined. In December 2001, Rudy
Giuliani, the mayor of that city, delivered his last mayoral
speech in St Paul’s Chapel, close to the site of the
shattered twin towers. “All that matters,” he claimed,
“is that you embrace America and understand its ideals and
what it’s all about. Abraham Lincoln used to say that the
test of your Americanism was … how much you believed in
America. Because we’re like a religion really. A secular
religion.”8 The chapel in which he spoke had been
consecrated not just by God, but by the fact that George
Washington had once prayed there. It was, he said, now
“sacred ground to people who feel what America is all
about”.9 The United States of America no longer needs to
call upon God; it is God, and those who go abroad to spread
the light do so in the name of a celestial domain. The flag
has become as sacred as the Bible; the name of the nation as
holy as the name of God. The presidency is turning into a
priesthood.
So those who question George Bush’s foreign policy are no
longer merely critics; they are blasphemers, or
“anti-Americans”. Those foreign states which seek to
change this policy are wasting their time: you can negotiate
with politicians; you cannot negotiate with priests. The US
has a divine mission, as Bush suggested in January, “to
defend … the hopes of all mankind”,10 and woe betide those
who hope for something other than the American way of life.
The dangers of national divinity scarcely require explanation.
Japan went to war in the 1930s convinced, like George Bush,
that it possessed a heaven-sent mission to “liberate” Asia
and extend the realm of its divine imperium. It would, the
fascist theoretician Kita Ikki predicted, “light the
darkness of the entire world”.11 Those who seek to drag
heaven down to earth are destined only to engineer a hell.
"George Monbiot’s books Poisoned Arrows and No Man’s
Land"
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2003/07/29/america-is-a-religion/
Minister D
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