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Alright, I'll attempt to offer my thoughts as the video progresses, trying to offer time stamps for reference.
0:50. So the use of the shawl and shofar in combination with "for America" rhetoric already makes me a bit uncomfortable. I anticipate "America as Israel" language, with American exceptionalism and triumphalism, and the idea that America is a special, chosen nation by God. But let's continue.
1:30. John Winthrop, yep my suspicions are probably going to be correct. Of course the problem with his use here is that the Puritans were kinda-sorta interested in creating a theocratic society, which is fundamentally at odds with the principles of the Enlightenment which the founding fathers used to establish their republic. But, let's continue again.
2:00. Hah! Yup, "two civilizations" Israel and America. So here we have "America is Israel" in about as clear of terms as we can find. So there's still almost 12 minutes left.
2:11. "The founding of America was based on the template of ancient Israel." Well that's a crock of bovine excrement. Where did this guy study American history? Has he even read anything which the American founders wrote? Does he not understand that the founders looked to the Enlightenment ideas of John Locke, to the Roman republican era and the Greek city states, namely Athens? I hate to break it to this guy, but ancient Israel wasn't a secular democracy or a republic, its laws were based on God's Torah which He had given the ancient Israelites for their covenant with God to be His nation. The United States looked to the principles of liberal democracy, and classical Rome and Greece as influences. Oy veh.
2:39. What blessings exactly? God definitely said that He would bless Abraham, giving him a son through his wife Sarah, and through Isaac and then Jacob came the Twelve Patriarchs, and through them Israel and through Israel came Jesus the Messiah, our Lord, being the fullness of promise and that, in Him and by Him, we as His Church have received the blessing of Abraham; for we are God's people chosen in Jesus Christ by His boundless mercy and grace, that through faith in Jesus we are freely justified, and made the one new people of God in Christ Jesus, to our eternal and future hope in the World to Come. Where did God ever make this or any other promise to any other nation, America or otherwise? He hasn't. Further, again I would look to America's history--our history as a nation has been littered with the blood and bones of men and women who often went against the status quo--having shed the blood of the indigenous nations, kept other human beings as slaves until 1865, after 1865 passing Jim Crow laws and other laws to discriminate against people based solely on the color of their skin. Don't look to America's past for God's blessings, if you desire the blessings of God in this country then stand up for justice on behalf of the poor, the discriminated, the hungry, the needy, the outcast, and the unwanted. But I suspect we are going to hear how standing up for justice and mercy is precisely why America is "no longer great" or similar.
3:21. Temples, idols. If he starts talking about "Seven Mountains" or how Christians need to "take America back", then I don't know how much more of this I'll be able to sit through.
3:57. Since when was George Washington one of the prophets? Also, Washington was a rather irreligious person, but I suspect facts aren't going to be terribly relevant in this video given its course within just the first four minutes.
4:40. Is he talking about the marriage equality ruling by the Supreme Court? Well, in that case. I'm done with this video. I doubt having come downhill this fast it's going to be going uphill anytime soon.
This is what happens when Christianity is perverted, and its language coopted by those who would bow down before the golden calfs of American exceptionalism and American triumphalism. Who have been consumed by the perverse doctrines of the Dominionists and the Religious Right.
Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on us sinners.
-CryptoLutheran
0:50. So the use of the shawl and shofar in combination with "for America" rhetoric already makes me a bit uncomfortable. I anticipate "America as Israel" language, with American exceptionalism and triumphalism, and the idea that America is a special, chosen nation by God. But let's continue.
1:30. John Winthrop, yep my suspicions are probably going to be correct. Of course the problem with his use here is that the Puritans were kinda-sorta interested in creating a theocratic society, which is fundamentally at odds with the principles of the Enlightenment which the founding fathers used to establish their republic. But, let's continue again.
2:00. Hah! Yup, "two civilizations" Israel and America. So here we have "America is Israel" in about as clear of terms as we can find. So there's still almost 12 minutes left.
2:11. "The founding of America was based on the template of ancient Israel." Well that's a crock of bovine excrement. Where did this guy study American history? Has he even read anything which the American founders wrote? Does he not understand that the founders looked to the Enlightenment ideas of John Locke, to the Roman republican era and the Greek city states, namely Athens? I hate to break it to this guy, but ancient Israel wasn't a secular democracy or a republic, its laws were based on God's Torah which He had given the ancient Israelites for their covenant with God to be His nation. The United States looked to the principles of liberal democracy, and classical Rome and Greece as influences. Oy veh.
2:39. What blessings exactly? God definitely said that He would bless Abraham, giving him a son through his wife Sarah, and through Isaac and then Jacob came the Twelve Patriarchs, and through them Israel and through Israel came Jesus the Messiah, our Lord, being the fullness of promise and that, in Him and by Him, we as His Church have received the blessing of Abraham; for we are God's people chosen in Jesus Christ by His boundless mercy and grace, that through faith in Jesus we are freely justified, and made the one new people of God in Christ Jesus, to our eternal and future hope in the World to Come. Where did God ever make this or any other promise to any other nation, America or otherwise? He hasn't. Further, again I would look to America's history--our history as a nation has been littered with the blood and bones of men and women who often went against the status quo--having shed the blood of the indigenous nations, kept other human beings as slaves until 1865, after 1865 passing Jim Crow laws and other laws to discriminate against people based solely on the color of their skin. Don't look to America's past for God's blessings, if you desire the blessings of God in this country then stand up for justice on behalf of the poor, the discriminated, the hungry, the needy, the outcast, and the unwanted. But I suspect we are going to hear how standing up for justice and mercy is precisely why America is "no longer great" or similar.
3:21. Temples, idols. If he starts talking about "Seven Mountains" or how Christians need to "take America back", then I don't know how much more of this I'll be able to sit through.
3:57. Since when was George Washington one of the prophets? Also, Washington was a rather irreligious person, but I suspect facts aren't going to be terribly relevant in this video given its course within just the first four minutes.
4:40. Is he talking about the marriage equality ruling by the Supreme Court? Well, in that case. I'm done with this video. I doubt having come downhill this fast it's going to be going uphill anytime soon.
This is what happens when Christianity is perverted, and its language coopted by those who would bow down before the golden calfs of American exceptionalism and American triumphalism. Who have been consumed by the perverse doctrines of the Dominionists and the Religious Right.
Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on us sinners.
-CryptoLutheran
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