“What do you mean son?”
“Will America go to heaven daddy?”
“Well, not exactly son. America is a country. Countries don’t go to heaven, people do.”
“But what about Faithful America daddy?”
“What Faithful America son? Americans can be faithful, but America can’t be faithful. America is a country while Americans are the people. It’s the people that count. Just like a church. It’s not the building or the name of the church. It’s the people that make up the church that are the church.”
“I know Daddy, but I saw a website. It was called FaithfulAmerica.org. Does that mean America is faithful?”
“Son, I told you that a country can’t be faithful, only it’s people. Anyone that tells you otherwise has an agenda and is attempting to deceive you.”
“How would they try to deceive me daddy?”
“Well son, they could take a website and co-opt it from another group that was originally a legitimate church-based organization. Then they could link their organization through another religious website that covers every possible type of faith so that it is politically correct.”
“Like FaithInPublicLife.org daddy?”
“I guess you could say that son. As long as an organization presents its faith as being connected with a multitude of popular faiths, then it is viewed as being politically correct and the participants may believe that this is a form of protection – being all things to all people so to speak. Then once they have successfully filtered the organization through organized religions, then they would link it out to a powerful politicial organization?”
“What is an example of a powerful political organization daddy?”
“Well, the Center for American Progress at www.americanprogress.org is an example of a very powerful political organization. According to a report in the Washington Post, global financier George Soros and mortgage bankers Herbert and Marion Sandler invested in the formation of the organization?”
“Daddy, are you sure they paid for it?”
“Son, there’s no way to know for sure. You see they keep their finances secret.”
“Why would an organization built on faith try to keep secrets daddy? What about the transparency and accountability that you told me were so important.”
“That’s a good question son. It’s the same reason that organizations which try to say that a country is more important than its citizens call themselves progressive. It’s not progress for the individual people, it’s progress for the state, but it sounds good and especially when you watch their fancy videos like this one titled Progress is American. Progress is a good thing, just like your progress in school. But words can be used for lots of different purposes. I believe sometimes the word ’progressive’ is designed to confuse the progress of a person with the progress of the state or country. We are a country of people, not a people of country. It’s like when I told you about putting the cart before the horse. The people of America are the horse and America itself is the cart. The people come first and never let anyone tell you anything different. When you watch the video tell me if it makes you feel like it is more about “We the People” or “We the Country” and then you can decide for yourself what true progress means. I would like to see a video titled Americans are Progress because that’s the truth.
http://www.americanprogress.org/aboutus/
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