The Faults of the Americans
Americans spend alot of time complaining about their leaders, but they are oblivious to their own glaring faults.
The American, is brainless, ignorant, childish, irresponsible with regards to the nation-state, enamored by pleasures such as entertainments, lazy, selfish. The American, hangs paintings of Christ blessing the little children on the wall, but does not understand the difference between child-like and childish. The American born agains, think that being born again means sucking your thumb like a baby. Lots of the Americans are beneath childish, in that they are more like babies than children.
The American, does a poor job of serving every idea he or she believes in. The American does not understand, that a conscience does not mean doing a trash job with regards to what you believe in. The American believes in nationalism, patriotism, and proceeds to do an incredibly poor job of being a nationalist or a patriot. The American claims to be a Christian, but does a horrendous job of being a Christian.
The American, is expert at finding fault with others, while remaining oblivious to his or her own faults.
The American, is an idiot about the religion he or she is noisy about. The American chooses the scriptures he likes, and rejects the scriptures he does not like. The American does not understand how to balance two scriptures that point in opposing directions. The American does not understand or merely pays lip service to the importance of conscience. The American, is flippant, having deluded himself into the idea that the salvation of men always is predestined and has nothing to do with good works. The American, fails to understand that there is nothing Christian about ignorant brainless conduct. The American does not understand that the proper interpretation of scripture, involves realizing that most of God's thoughts are not in the Bible, and that the scriptures were written by men in a certain place at a certain time to other men in certain places at certain times. The American, pays lip service to Christianity and then goes out and abuses the saints.
The American, who is loud-mouthed about his alleged Christianity, has forgotten all about the descendants of Christ, Christ's family, Christ's disciples. Where are they? What group are they part of?
The American rejects Christianity as incompatible with nationalism: "Hey, thar is non-Christian guys in th' Marines, duhhh...thar is Amerikins who r not Christian, doi, thar is fo'eigners who is Christian, umm, thar is voters an' cornsoomrs an' employers who is not Christian, we will nebeh be able t'presarve our nashun eff'n we is nice like Christians"; and so, the American rejects his own white race, because his white race brought has been Christian, and also rejects the religion of his own people.
The American does not spend his time energy and money in ways that make his leaders better people, or in ways that make his nation a better and stronger nation. Instead the American fritters away his time energy and money on frivolous pursuits and pastimes. Such is what the American calls Christian.
The American, is useless or worse in terms of his or her conduct with regards to true leaders. Leaders face crushing burdens and stresses, but the American will not lift a finger to help the crushed leader. Instead, the American will forget about his own faults and find all kinds of faults with his leaders, will be impossibly demanding with his leaders, demanding from them a level of conduct he would never imagine demanding from himself. Americans treat their leaders, the way people treat fish in a fishbowl, watching them, listening to them, but all the while being studiously useless. Americans treat their leaders the way the devils treated St Anthony, sort of hovering around the leader constantly, all the while being completely useless. Americans treat their leaders the way certain peoples of old treated unfit infants, they sort of abandon them on the mountaintop, expose them to the elements, never showing any concern for the physical safety of their leaders.
Americans being the way they are is tragic, because America is the kind of country where the citizens being just a little more virtuous, can mean the difference between the nation being a heaven on earth and the nation being a hell on earth. It is not as if America is a long distance away from being a heaven on earth, a place where people could experience God's spirit while alive, a place which produces influences that drag people out of heaven and put them in hell. Nevertheless, it has become a hell on earth, inside an outer shell that sparkles and shines and reminds us of what America used to be, and that reminds the ignorant of what they think America really is.
The American looks in his Bible, and decides in typically foolish fashion that unconditional obedience to leaders is a Christian duty. It never occurs to the American, that the hidden, important meaning of the exhortation to obedience to rulers, is to keep a lookout for persons who should be leaders but are not, and to serve such disenthroned or potential leaders. It never occurs to the American that devils can assume positions of leadership, or that kings can be disenthroned as were David and Christ. The American lives as if Americans had no control regarding who leads them.
Christianity clearly declares that pride is a sin, the American pretends to be a Christian, nevertheless the Americans have enthroned the sin of pride as a virtue. There are plenty of Americans, who are so conceited, that they could not stop being conceited if they tried.
The American, lives his life as if the more people attend your funeral the better a chance you have of going to heaven, was a maxim. Americans fall all over themselves honoring members of whatever occupational group they happen to be part of, when such persons die; at the same time, they are rude and scornful with people simply because these people happen to be from a different occupational group. The American is gullible enough to actually believe, that it is impossible for a man wearing a policeman's uniform to go to hell, it is impossible for a man wearing a soldier's uniform to go to hell, etc. etc.
The American, is constantly flattered by people trying to get his vote, trying to sell things to him, and he and she are dumb enough to believe all the flattery.
The American, has in these times filled with visual media, come to realize that he or she and their family, are lacking in beauty. So as a way of denying this uncomfortable fact, the American denies all realities, because he who sees reality in one aspect sees reality in another aspect also.
The American, is conceited about how his nation is able to using its hi-tek weapons, obliterate any nation on earth--the American is stupid enough to think that he is more of a man than the person who had the accident of birth to be born in a nation without such military power. Any little thing is enough to fill an American with conceit, arrogance, haughtiness, and yes, pride.
@2006 David Virgil Hobbs
The American, is brainless, ignorant, childish, irresponsible with regards to the nation-state, enamored by pleasures such as entertainments, lazy, selfish. The American, hangs paintings of Christ blessing the little children on the wall, but does not understand the difference between child-like and childish. The American born agains, think that being born again means sucking your thumb like a baby. Lots of the Americans are beneath childish, in that they are more like babies than children.
The American, does a poor job of serving every idea he or she believes in. The American does not understand, that a conscience does not mean doing a trash job with regards to what you believe in. The American believes in nationalism, patriotism, and proceeds to do an incredibly poor job of being a nationalist or a patriot. The American claims to be a Christian, but does a horrendous job of being a Christian.
The American, is expert at finding fault with others, while remaining oblivious to his or her own faults.
The American, is an idiot about the religion he or she is noisy about. The American chooses the scriptures he likes, and rejects the scriptures he does not like. The American does not understand how to balance two scriptures that point in opposing directions. The American does not understand or merely pays lip service to the importance of conscience. The American, is flippant, having deluded himself into the idea that the salvation of men always is predestined and has nothing to do with good works. The American, fails to understand that there is nothing Christian about ignorant brainless conduct. The American does not understand that the proper interpretation of scripture, involves realizing that most of God's thoughts are not in the Bible, and that the scriptures were written by men in a certain place at a certain time to other men in certain places at certain times. The American, pays lip service to Christianity and then goes out and abuses the saints.
The American, who is loud-mouthed about his alleged Christianity, has forgotten all about the descendants of Christ, Christ's family, Christ's disciples. Where are they? What group are they part of?
The American rejects Christianity as incompatible with nationalism: "Hey, thar is non-Christian guys in th' Marines, duhhh...thar is Amerikins who r not Christian, doi, thar is fo'eigners who is Christian, umm, thar is voters an' cornsoomrs an' employers who is not Christian, we will nebeh be able t'presarve our nashun eff'n we is nice like Christians"; and so, the American rejects his own white race, because his white race brought has been Christian, and also rejects the religion of his own people.
The American does not spend his time energy and money in ways that make his leaders better people, or in ways that make his nation a better and stronger nation. Instead the American fritters away his time energy and money on frivolous pursuits and pastimes. Such is what the American calls Christian.
The American, is useless or worse in terms of his or her conduct with regards to true leaders. Leaders face crushing burdens and stresses, but the American will not lift a finger to help the crushed leader. Instead, the American will forget about his own faults and find all kinds of faults with his leaders, will be impossibly demanding with his leaders, demanding from them a level of conduct he would never imagine demanding from himself. Americans treat their leaders, the way people treat fish in a fishbowl, watching them, listening to them, but all the while being studiously useless. Americans treat their leaders the way the devils treated St Anthony, sort of hovering around the leader constantly, all the while being completely useless. Americans treat their leaders the way certain peoples of old treated unfit infants, they sort of abandon them on the mountaintop, expose them to the elements, never showing any concern for the physical safety of their leaders.
Americans being the way they are is tragic, because America is the kind of country where the citizens being just a little more virtuous, can mean the difference between the nation being a heaven on earth and the nation being a hell on earth. It is not as if America is a long distance away from being a heaven on earth, a place where people could experience God's spirit while alive, a place which produces influences that drag people out of heaven and put them in hell. Nevertheless, it has become a hell on earth, inside an outer shell that sparkles and shines and reminds us of what America used to be, and that reminds the ignorant of what they think America really is.
The American looks in his Bible, and decides in typically foolish fashion that unconditional obedience to leaders is a Christian duty. It never occurs to the American, that the hidden, important meaning of the exhortation to obedience to rulers, is to keep a lookout for persons who should be leaders but are not, and to serve such disenthroned or potential leaders. It never occurs to the American that devils can assume positions of leadership, or that kings can be disenthroned as were David and Christ. The American lives as if Americans had no control regarding who leads them.
Christianity clearly declares that pride is a sin, the American pretends to be a Christian, nevertheless the Americans have enthroned the sin of pride as a virtue. There are plenty of Americans, who are so conceited, that they could not stop being conceited if they tried.
The American, lives his life as if the more people attend your funeral the better a chance you have of going to heaven, was a maxim. Americans fall all over themselves honoring members of whatever occupational group they happen to be part of, when such persons die; at the same time, they are rude and scornful with people simply because these people happen to be from a different occupational group. The American is gullible enough to actually believe, that it is impossible for a man wearing a policeman's uniform to go to hell, it is impossible for a man wearing a soldier's uniform to go to hell, etc. etc.
The American, is constantly flattered by people trying to get his vote, trying to sell things to him, and he and she are dumb enough to believe all the flattery.
The American, has in these times filled with visual media, come to realize that he or she and their family, are lacking in beauty. So as a way of denying this uncomfortable fact, the American denies all realities, because he who sees reality in one aspect sees reality in another aspect also.
The American, is conceited about how his nation is able to using its hi-tek weapons, obliterate any nation on earth--the American is stupid enough to think that he is more of a man than the person who had the accident of birth to be born in a nation without such military power. Any little thing is enough to fill an American with conceit, arrogance, haughtiness, and yes, pride.
@2006 David Virgil Hobbs
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