Patriotism and Christianity: any room for blindness?

written by Julie R. Neidlinger      1 comments      link this post     


I confess to truly disliking excessive patriotism during a church service. I was recently in a church during the Sunday morning service around the Fourth of July mark, and the service was all about patriotic songs, flags, pledge of allegiance to the American flag, honoring the military, and graphics on the overhead screen of waving flags and such.

I don't have a problem with honoring troops, for example, or singing the National Anthem, but I would prefer it to not happen in church. It feels like we are worshipping another god, or some kind of red, white and blue idol that may or may not exist in that pure, sentimental form.

There's an interesting discussion on the subject going on at CRN.info: In God's Country.

What are your thoughts?

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