Someone bless America?

Question

Durring today's cookout a song came on called 'Someone bless America' - it was identical to God bless America only without any religion in it at all.

I think its fine to not believe in a god, its your life and your choice, but to take a song like that and change it I think is a bit rude. What do you think about it?

God bless America was stolen? I didnt know that, thats rude too.

Answer 1

Didn't we steal "God Bless America" from "God Save The Queen"? If anybody should be hacked off, it should be Elizabeth.

Answer 2

The thing people don't seem to realize is that America is not possible if there is no Creator. Our entire government is is based on the premise
that our basic human rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness come directly from the Creator. That puts the Creator as the highest authority. In other words, God made us free not some government of men. Therefore no government of men can take those rights away from us.

The founders did not require that you belong to any religion at all but what is assumed is that everyone believe there is a Creator or God. Thomas Jefferson had no religion. He, like me, is a Deist. He wrote the Declaration of Independence where those lines appear. America's form of government cannot exist without a firm belief in the Creator or God.

Socialism is the other extreme. It cannot exist if there is a God. God represents moral absoultism or the fact that some things are always right and some things are always wrong. Socilaist govenrments reject that and supstitute moral relativism or secualr humanism which is the same thing. These are fancy ways of saying that right and wrong can change as man sees the need to change them. In socialism, killing is wrong unless the govenment needs to kill people. Stealing is wrong unless the government needs to steal something, lying is wrong unless the government want to lie about something.

So you see, it is not fine if people do not believe in God. It is actually un-American to not believe in God. God is what protects the individual and restricts the actions of the govenment. I strongly recommend that people who do not believe in God emmigrate to a socialist country.

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Answer 3

Yes it's rude. Laptop, I think the song that says "God Save the Queen" is "My Country Tis of Thee" in the U.S. I think someone should write a song called "America, Bless God"

Answer 4

Considering that you lifted the tune for your national anthem from a British drinking song, and that you stole the tune of the British national anthem for God Bless America, I don't think that you have much to complain about.

In case you realise the error of your ways and want to sing the proper words to that tune then here they are:

God save our gracious Queen
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen:
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us:
God save the Queen.


And the correct words to the American national anthem:

To Anacreon in Heav'n, where he sat in full glee,
A few Sons of Harmony sent a petition;
That he their Inspirer and Patron wou'd be;
When this answer arrived from the Jolly Old Grecian;
"Voice, Fiddle, and Flute,
No longer be mute,
I'll lend you my name and inspire you to boot,
And besides I'll instruct you like me, to intwine,
The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine."

http://glyfix.com/soa/lyrics/anacreon_theme.html

Answer 5

Well, nothing is bad about a song who says God bless America.

I think that is intolerance that some atheist have to religion, like do not accept that religion was an historical fact , so the roots of the culture are religious even if the culture today are not religious at all.

Well, i think that atheist must learn to be tolerant, too. Besides there is freedom of thinking and believing in any religion, specially in America.

Answer 6

I think there are much bigger problems with which to concern one's self.

I think that in a free society (if you actually care about such things as opposed to spouting empty platitudes like so many self-described "patriots"), one should be ready and prepared for things that might not exactly jibe with your view of life.

Remember, freedom of speech isn't about protecting speech you agree with, it's about protecting speech you disagree with.

Frankly, I think "God Bless America" is rude. I think introducing religious belief into what was founded as a secular democracy goes against the basic tenets of our political system. I think the notion that god somehow favors our country is obnoxious - indeed, it is this sort of religious patriotism which leads so many other societies to become theocracies.

Have a happy Fourth of July.

Answer 7

God Bless America
Someone can not do that
Only God
Satan and his followers are behind that
Jesus will set it all straight once and for all when he sets his Kingdom up on Earth and Jesus will rule King of Kings and Lord of Lords

this world is full of evil and the evil gets worse an worse until he Jesus comes

Answer 8

It happens all the time the scifi/fantasy community... the call it "filk."

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[Sung to the tune of The Beverly Hillbillies Theme Song]

Come and listen to my story 'bout a god named Thor.
A mighty thunderer (yeah, that's what the hammer's for).
Then one day he went fishing for some food
when up through the waves came Jormungand.

Sea monster that is.
Midgard serpent.
Really big.

Welllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll....

Of course Asa-Thor, he's not scared.
He pulled his hammer out and beat the monster on the head.
It thrashed and it ROARED and it churned up the sea,
but then the line broke and the monster got free.

Away that is.
Big fish story.
Thor was bummed.

Answer 9

Like changing the Pledge of Allegiance was rude?

You cringe at all the "Candle in the Wind" variations don't you...

Answer 10

Sort of "Vee fish canoe an airy crick's mats," huh? Anything to keep God out of the public mind.