Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Friday, July 04, 2008 9:24:13 PM
From Mark D. Tooley writing at Front Page Magazine:
Should Christians mourn on July 4, given what a disaster the United States has been for the world? Much of the Religious Left thinks so!
Undoubtedly speaking for many left-wing seminary faculty and clergy, Ted Smith of Vanderbilt University penned an editorial for this month’s Christian Century magazine called: “The Fourth of July: How Does a Christian Celebrate?”
The answer from Smith is: very carefully, if at all. He recalls the early misgivings he had about Independence Day when he was a young staffer at the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in 1989. The horror of it all smacked him like a hot skillet.
“We were training death squads to terrorize people in El Salvador, selling weapons to Iran to fund a revolution against the democratically elected government of Nicaragua, trading freely with an apartheid-dominated South Africa, and propping up a vicious dictator in Iraq named Saddam Hussein. And that was just our foreign policy.”
Smith’s memories are darkly stained by his far left ideology. His recollection of “death squads” refers to successful U.S. support for the elected, Christian Democratic regime in El Salvador, which was attempting to survive against a Soviet-supported Marxist insurgency. His recollection of U.S. weapons sales to Iran was a misbegotten attempt to bolster Iranian “moderates” and free U.S. hostages in Lebanon. His citation of the “democratically elected” regime in Nicaragua refers to the Marxist Sandinistas, who seized and retained power at the point of a gun. His memory of U.S. trade with Apartheid era South Africa does not include the partial U.S. sanctions imposed n 1986, nor the fact that by 1989, under newly elected President Frederik De Klerk, Apartheid was already crumbling. By “propping up” Saddam Hussein, he means that the U.S., along with other Western and Arab countries, tilted towards Iraq against the Ayatollah’s Iran, whose war with Iraq had ended in 1988, thanks partly to the U.S. naval presence in the Persian Gulf.
Note that Smith, in his historical review, omits any mention of the most historically significant event of 1989: the collapse of the Soviet Union’s occupation of Eastern Europe after 44 years, thanks partly to U.S. perseverance during the Cold War.
Continue reading about the religious left-wing's ridiculous diatribe by following the link above. Be ashamed of your country on Independence Day! Pray to God for forgiveness because you live in this horrible place which rapes the rest of the world! Unfortunately the religious left is as absurd as their atheistic brothers and sisters. Instead of understanding and embracing the fact God Himself inspired our Constitution and the creation of the United States, the religious left is ashamed of it. This is striking considering that without the help of our government Americans gave over 300-billion dollars to charity around the world over the past year, which is about the same amount we give every year; more than any other country and most countries combined.
Even for left-wing Christians this should be something to be proud of on Independence Day and every day, for without our independence none of that charity would have been possible. Without our independence, the wide variety of religions and denominations would have never come into existence. The same groups who gave the majority of that 300-billion dollars to the sick, poor, dying, enslaved, and destitute across the globe. To believe in the Judeo-Christian God and at the same time be ashamed of this country is akin to watching the Sun shine every day while believing in man-made global warming.