Why should God bless America?
She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back
On everything that made her what she is
Why should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sin and heal our land
The courts ruled prayer out of our schools
In June of ‘62
Told the children “you are your own God now
So you can make the rules”
O say can you see what that choice
Has cost us to this day
America, one nation under God, has gone astray
Why should God bless America?
Shes’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back on everything
That made her what she is
Why should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sins and heal our land
In ‘73 the Courts said we
Could take the unborn lives
The choice is yours don’t worry now
It’s not a wrong, it’s your right
But just because they made it law
Does not change God’s command
The most that we can hope for is
God’s mercy on our land
Why should God bless America?
She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back on everything
That made her what she is
Why should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sins and heal our land
(Reading from 2nd Chronicles 7:14) If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land
God have mercy on America forgive her sins and heal our land
On the one hand, I agree with the sentiment in the last line. On the other hand, the "song" is full of nonsense, the most awful of which is that it ignores our present sin of illegal war, extra-Constitutional governance, torture, a warped, broken political culture.
America is now, and has always been, an officially secular country, which by a paradox of history, allows it to be the most fertile ground for religious belief in the world. People are free to be religious in any way they wish, including rejecting it all together. God's blessing for this country is that we are free from the tyranny of the Eternally Blessed and Gifted with the Word of God leading us, silencing dissent, and persecuting the heretic and infidel. Give me an atheist who trusts the Constitution, and I would vote for him or her rather than someone who says that Jesus is his favorite political philosopher.
Why is it that those who are most visible as "Christians" in our public sphere tend to be politically offensive?
