{"id":1665,"date":"2008-12-14T06:34:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T13:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2025-06-15T06:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:07:27","slug":"should-god-bless-america-or-was-rev-wright-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/should-god-bless-america-or-was-rev-wright-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Should God Bless America, or was Rev. Wright, Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--noadsense-->Jeremy Wright said in his 2003 sermon, &#8220;&#8230;sing &#8216;God Bless America.&#8217; No, no, no, God damn America, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the Bible for killing innocent people&#8221; and most of us cringed when we heard it (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brutallyhonest.org\/brutally_honest\/2008\/03\/obama-pastor-go.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more of that sermon here<\/a>).  God has blessed America in wealth and in prosperity.  We are the richest nation in the world; We are the most powerful nation in the world; We have the most advanced technology in the world; We have some of the best educated people in the world; indeed God has blessed America in spades.  At my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthouseaz.com\" target=\"_blank\">church<\/a>, we have a saying &#8211; God Blesses Us so that we can Bless the World.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of year when we should be most aware of our faith, are we blessing the world?  Do we give like Christ gave?  Watch this 2:39 video and you tell me:<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eVqqj1v-ZBU<\/p>\n<p>Four Hundred and Fifty Billion dollars on Christmas at Walmart&#8217;s and Target&#8217;s on Xboxes and Wiis and laptop computers, on cell phones and gift cards, and junk trinkets, while children made in God&#8217;s image die of disease and sickness due to the lack of clean water!\u00c2\u00a0 If you think this doesn&#8217;t grieve the heart of God &#8211; you don&#8217;t know Him!\u00c2\u00a0 A ten billion dollar bailout for the world could change everything &#8211; just 10 billion dollars!<\/p>\n<p>We just gave <em><strong>15 BILLION<\/strong><\/em> to keep our car companies in the business of making cars we aren&#8217;t buying &#8211; <em><strong>STOP AND THINK <\/strong><\/em>about that.  The government agreed to give out <em><strong>700 BILLION<\/strong><\/em> to bailout our banks and <em><strong>15 BILLION<\/strong><\/em> to bailout the auto industry, at the same time we are spending <em><strong>450 <\/strong><\/em><em><strong>BILLION<\/strong><\/em> on trinkets and trash while real people are dying around the world for a lack of <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">money<\/span> <em><strong>COMPASSION<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>God has blessed America&#8230; should He continue? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventconspiracy.org\/water\/\" target=\"_blank\">Do SOMETHING<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* if you liked this article, you might also like this one: <a href=\"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/category\/ministry\/purple-skies.html\" target=\"_self\">Purple Skies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Wright said in his 2003 sermon, &#8220;&#8230;sing &#8216;God Bless America.&#8217; No, no, no, God damn America, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the Bible for killing innocent people&#8221; and most of us cringed when we heard it (Read more of that sermon here). God has blessed America in wealth and in prosperity. 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