It irritates me when people assume the phrase, "God bless America," carries with it an implicit, "...and to hell with all the other countries in the world." It doesn't. It only says what it says. Please God, please bless America. We need it. If I pray to do well on a test, does that mean I want everyone else to fail? No. When I pray for my children to pass safely on their way to school, does that mean I wish ill to all other children? Of course not. Perhaps the case could be made that if one were to pray to win a competition, then one is wishing the other team to lose, to fail. But international affairs need not be a competition. One country does not need to fail for another to succeed. Not in a ideal world. So the phrase, "God bless America" means just that. And nothing more.
And as long as I'm at it, when the Dugger family (18 Kids and Counting) thanked God for the blessings that were their children, there were a very vocal few who managed to find that offensive. If children are a blessing from God, then that must mean the Duggers thought that lack of children implied lack of blessings, i.e. God doesn't love those without children as much as He loves those with children, and you can tell how much God loves you by the numbers He blesses you with. How self-absorbed must you be to think that someone's gratitude to God is an insult to you? Amazing.
Whew! All right. I'm done.
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