I'm just watching Newt Gingrich going on about God, and saying that it's necessary for America to recognise God within government. He's saying that America is God's country, in essence.
Scary stuff, not that I don't believe in God, but that I sincerely believe that God has to be found by individuals, not hijacked as a concept by politicians.
It isn't a politician's job to explain theology, or comment on The Divine. It never has been, isn't now, and should never be.
You don't make someone a believer in God by insisting that he believe. You can't enforce God on human beings. That's the antithesis of God and what spirit is.
The man's now going on about America being founded on legal immigrants. That's the biggest piece of nonsense I've ever heard. The United States was founded on people breaking the law. It was founded on people escaping persecution and poverty. It was founded on people who wanted to get away from tyranny in their own country, or from dictatorship of the British Monarchy. America was a colony of Great Britain. It took law breaking to get away from that. So it really is silly for Mr Gingrich to make comments like that.
Monday, August 15, 2005
Newt Gingrich and God
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Yes, exactly.
Where were the Navajo and Sioux border patrols? Did the Cherokees have an immigration and naturalisation service? Was there an African Homeland Security, when American slave traders arrived, to take their citizens away?
Certain Americans spout off in some self righteous way, as if America wasn't founded on what they now proclaim as evil or illegal.
One very vocal symbol of Republicanism - John Wayne - once defended the decimation of the Indians by proclaiming that America was a vast, underpopulated land where there was space for many more immigrants.
That's still the case.
The population density of Great Britain, for example, is on a par of taking the entire US population and putting them all into Texas. The US is still vastly underpopulated in comparison to Europe.
So Mr. Gingrich really does talk out of his arse.
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