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A good logic to go by here is by acknowledging that, just as repentance rescued the Israelites of old from prophecies of destruction, so too does it do so now, as it did for the Romans who prospered for long after their conversion, even maintaining Christendom in the East by the blessing of God when the West fell (and just think, Rome was founded on the murder of one's own family, and yet look at how it fared in prosperity with Constantinople's days? Is the same straying away from evil not possible as well for America, founded by Masons and imbued with all sorts of evils, yet ripe for repentance?).
You have a point, the Founding Freemasons weren't exactly great people. I think my issue is that when I think of "America" my mind immediately generates a scene of a 1950s family living in a suburban neighborhood with a white picket fence around their home. It's an idealized perception of the country and if anything I'm not truly being le heckin patriotic because I'm refusing to acknowledge the glaring flaws and problems of the US.A good logic to go by here is by acknowledging that, just as repentance rescued the Israelites of old from prophecies of destruction, so too does it do so now, as it did for the Romans who prospered for long after their conversion, even maintaining Christendom in the East by the blessing of God when the West fell (and just think, Rome was founded on the murder of one's own family, and yet look at how it fared in prosperity with Constantinople's days? Is the same straying away from evil not possible as well for America, founded by Masons and imbued with all sorts of evils, yet ripe for repentance?).
If you want to save your country (and this applies to any land) from the destruction eventually coming to it, you must strive for holiness yourself. God wants no nation destroyed, but destruction does come to nations that don't repent. If you repent and spread the word of Christ, you delay that destruction to a time farther, a time unlike the one of the believers, where none will repent for their aggressions towards the will of God, and so by creating a time unlike that, by God's will, you preserve your nation. So, death to America and God bless it! Death to its evil and blessings be upon it. Spread the word of Christ and repent for your own sins, and our people may then be spared from what their evil brings upon them.
Well, it may feel like a silly answer, but "Heaven" is this question's answer, really. All places are corrupted and none are a paradise, even as some are safer than others or more well-stocked with food or have more expansive amounts of infrastructure, so on and further. It's our duty to love our people, which is why we have a homeland, and so it must be our duty to care for that homeland. As such, there's no point in taking the Lao Tzu route, packing all our stuff away, and venturing off to some-place-else when we have the capability through spreading goodness with others (whose minds are in the most vulnerable position for the good news perhaps in the history of our entire land) through Christ's guidance to improve our society and make it a better place for those currently living within it as they await God's return (I guess, if we want to make another comparison to Chinese thinkers, that's a very simplified Confucian thought regarding societal improvement by the spread of morality).It all boils down to this: if not the US, what else?
That makes sense. I'm hesitant to blame my "autism" on many things, but it probably explains why I have such a weird obsession and corrupt view of the country I was born in. After all, we're all here on this Earth for a relatively short period of time anyway and I've made a mistake by seeing myself as a "citizen" and not just an "individual".Well, it may feel like a silly answer, but "Heaven" is this question's answer, really. All places are corrupted and none are a paradise, even as some are safer than others or more well-stocked with food or have more expansive amounts of infrastructure, so on and further. It's our duty to love our people, which is why we have a homeland, and so it must be our duty to care for that homeland. As such, there's no point in taking the Lao Tzu route, packing all our stuff away, and venturing off to some-place-else when we have the capability through spreading goodness with others (whose minds are in the most vulnerable position for the good news perhaps in the history of our entire land) through Christ's guidance to improve our society and make it a better place for those currently living within it as they await God's return (I guess, if we want to make another comparison to Chinese thinkers, that's a very simplified Confucian thought regarding societal improvement by the spread of morality).
That's alright, I understand. You're simply dispositioned towards leaning to a collective view of things, which is still of value to an equivalent extent as individualism is. A lake can be seen as a lake in equivalence to being seen as a mass of water droplets, but to only acknowledge one of those descriptions would be fallacious, since it is both. The issue comes from prioritizing one over the other, which is then where you get individuals lacking love for one another by elevating each of themselves to the highest degree of importance, or a collective lacking love for one another by lowering each of themselves to the lowest degree. The ideal form of this is for individuals to work collectively; for example, to be one in Christ (Colossians 3:11) while maintaining your personal relation with what is holy (Romans 2:6) to add to this oneness. That is how the relation of the collective and the individual ideally functions by the will of God; they are complementary to one another.That makes sense. I'm hesitant to blame my "autism" on many things, but it probably explains why I have such a weird obsession and corrupt view of the country I was born in. After all, we're all here on this Earth for a relatively short period of time anyway and I've made a mistake by seeing myself as a "citizen" and not just an "individual".
I made another mistake by subconsciously believing groups/entities are somehow less prone or free from sin. If anything they're even worse than single people since they can be a culmination of evil (with influence from both the living, and the dead who used to be involved).
You'll have to forgive me if I'm not quite getting this, I don't want to come off as an edgelord but I have a problem with seeing people as more like tools or pieces of a puzzle to something than unique beings.