Why do people equate being patriotic with being Christian?

Question

A trend that has grown in recent years is that for one to be a Christian, then you MUST support the things that this country does. Why is it that some Christians believe that the United States is this special country that deserves special blessings from God? Why is it that if I disagree with the president, then people believe that I couldn't possibly be a Christian? It's silly to say that God put all the leaders in power because then, people will have to deal with the fact that many Christians HATE Clinton and still believe that Sadam deserved to die. I simply do not get it. What in the world does being patriotic have to do with being a Christian? Why do people get outraged when people want to rewrite the pledge or remove the flag from a church? Explain that one for me.

Answer 1

Being patriotic is to love your country, its people, what your country stands for (which is decided my the majority I guess), and being patriotic is wanting what is best for your country.
People disagree what is best for their country and this is why we have elections. People disagree as to who won the election, but rather than fight about it, it is decided by the constitution and the laws of the land. So we rally around our elected reps and our soldiers be they Christian or not.
Right now a lot of them happen to be Christian. So what??? We all have morals and beliefs of some kind. Wait until the next election and see what the people want. Being patriotic has nothing to do with religion. You are just clumping everyone into what you want to see. You want to believe that the Christians are out get you. I think that's called paranoia!!

Answer 2

My opinion is that it is kind of the other way around. Right now, the administration is trying to push the belief that if you don't agree with his policies, you are unpatriotic, when in fact, Americans should question their leaders to keep them honest. And since the president is a Christian, I think that some of that has 'spilled over' to the Christian part of the question. If you disagree with Bush, you are unpatriotic, and therefore if you disagree with him and he is a Christian, you are also anti-Christian

Bambi, do you know that the pledge of allegiance was originally said WITHOUT the words 'UNDER GOD"? Originally done in 1892. And the words were added by FDR in 1954. I don't believe that ANYONE would put FDR when listing people who were the founding fathers.

If you go back and check the CHRISTIAN founding fathers of this country, you will see that they considered the possibility that what is happening today would happen, and put in the US Constitution the principle that there would be no establishment of religion in the US. This works in 2 ways: it allows for freedom of religion (that means you can be Christian or Buddhist or Muslim or whatever you want) and it also allows OTHERS to not have YOUR religion pushed on them (Muslims cannot forbid everyone from eating pork, Christians cannot force people to believe the Bible, etc.)

EDIT -- you're welcome Bambi

Answer 3

My opinion is that patriotism as does religion have no place in Christianity. I pledge my allegiance to God not to a political organization where the love of power and money have taken place of the Christian values this country was founded from. I am not anti-American. I just believe that being a True Christian means giving all to God. we are to be in the world not of the world

Answer 4

Politics and Religion go hand in hand in the USA it seems, but the USA does not like the reverse. Why? 'cause their GOD is the only GOD. Sound familiar? That's why they have go go in to countries, sell them guns and save them.

Still waiting for America to go to school. LOL

Can you tell I'm not american.

Jean Cretien (X Prime Minister of Canada said it well during one of our debates on same sex marriage, church and hell)

When I'm the Prime Minister I work for the people and listen to what they want. When I am in church I am a Catholic and serve God. (something 2 that effect).

Answer 5

by using any definition you desire to apply, the Boston Tea occasion became into an act of terrorism. purely with the aid of fact those adult males have been on "our" area would not replace what it became into--and actually, that's what it became into meant to be. study the 2nd modification, which starts, "A properly regulated defense force, being had to the risk-free practices of a loose state..." After that comes the "precise to bear hands" area that i'm particular is your famous. If a textbook is giving examples of passages from the Quran, that is not any longer inevitably an endorsement; it somewhat is in ordinary terms pointing out what the e book says. what's incorrect with the "extra effective accepted of living" answer? i think of the subject is you're no longer very wonderful and have very poor analyzing comprehension skills. you have have been given your underclothes in a team over issues you do no longer fairly understand.

Answer 6

There is no association between the two, people just prefer to pretend that THEIR ideas are the RIGHT ideas and project those ideas onto things thought of as universally uniting and good. It's the (ignorant) American way.





please don't confuse that last sentence as saying all Americans are ignorant, I only mean the ones that make that association.

Answer 7

A true American patriot would never support his or her leaders simply because they are elected officials. If those officials don't represent freedom and the people, then it is every American's duty to question (loudly) those leaders.

These religious cults have always tried to maintain their power structure through politics.

Answer 8

For those who have fought Freedom has a taste the protected will never know.
You sound like neither a patriot or Christian to me.

Answer 9

Fundies have turned Patriotism into a religion of its own. If you don't show that you are a Patriot, you are not fit to live in this country, according to them.

atheist

Answer 10

I wonder about that myself. I don't trust anyone and this behavior very much disturbs me. I want nothing to do with patriotism because of it. If there's something wrong with one of them it stands to reason they are both suspect.
Strange trends we are seeing lately.