GOD BLESS AMERICA - OR "I WALK OUT'?
We did what we had to do, many people will say. (Actually, if you talk to some people who fought in the war, you'll probably hear, "Damn Japs - bataan march - they got less than they deserved".)
But is what we did blessed by God?
Victor Davis Hanson, for instance, believes that American History bears out the sheer rightness of American cause(s), because it is self-evident that things are better when we "win" in our projects, of which he selects a few to make the point. But, is that the same as being blessed by God?
Here is the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on Hiroshima and Nagaski:
"After the passage of nearly four decades and a concomitant growth in our understanding of the ever growing horror of nuclear war, we must shape the climate of opinion which will make it possible for our country to express profound sorrow over the atomic bombing of 1945. Without that sorrow, there is no way to finding a way to repudiate future use of nuclear weapons or of conventional weapons in such military actions that would not fulfill just-war criteria."
- The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response
- The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response
Seems like, right now, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's "God Damn America" is catapulting that message a lot farther and faster than either (a) The Pope; (b) the specter of Hannity's Preisthood at FIXed News; or (c) Tucker Carlson's apparent insistence that his Rector-for-hire never, ever gainsay anything Tucker thinks is a Patriotic act, or he will 'walk out'.
