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The Bible says that we are to submit to authorities and pay any taxes which might belong to a government. Why is it that American Christians honour a nation which was founded on a revolt against paying taxes? Is it possible that your country wasn't founded on the biblical principles like so many people say that it is?

To me, this makes perfect sense. However, the case with other people is obviously the opposite. Just about any Christian organisation in America is obsessed with a love of country that nearly rivals the sense of doing what's right. “America: right or wrong.”

Now, I've made it a point to stop calling the high school where I attended a Christian school. When I visit the establishment to visit with old teachers and see the new yearbook filled with mugshots that all include a background of Old Glory itself, I start using the term American school. It's highly ironic how a school can be so obsessed with loving a country which they would never allow to educate its children. In keeping with the theme on irony, it's also ironic how a school textbook can state how the British were people who loved God, read the Bible, freed the slaves, spread the reformation et cetera and then, when the chapter discusses the American Revolution, scathe the British as Satan's spawn.

The way that I see it is that people are grown up with this idea that God and America go together like pasta and marinara. If you feel this burning sense of patriotism and feel that America is God's country, try reading about MKULTRA, the Tuskegee syphilis study or, more recently, Abu Ghraib. America is just a country. God doesn't see people by what country that they're from; he sees them by the content of their hearts. May God bless every nation of earth.