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"grace for grace" - American Faith


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American Faith

If Americans do not have faith in God, it might turn to another China.

In China air pollution makes it dangerous even to freely breathe on the street in its capital Beijing.  But in America you can breathe pleasantly without a need to hide your religion unlike in China.

Steve McSwain

God in America: The PBS Special and a Conversation With Stephen Prothero

Posted: October 11, 2010 06:20 PM


According to the PBS special, not only is God in America, but God, or belief in God, is woven into the very fabric of American culture and politics. So much so, observes Prothero, "we are no longer a country of two political parties but two political-religious parties."
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The irony is this: America is religiously diverse. In Prothero's words, "In the supermarket of religion, America has a bigger store." It's the Walmart of religion. Instead of a strength, however, embraced by Americans as a distinction worth celebrating, many religious people in America are threatened by it, even react against it. But, in the words of the Hans Kung, "There will be no peace until there is peace among the religions." Nor will there be peace in America. While most Americans believe in God and regard themselves as spiritual people, my own feeling is millions of them are abandoning organized religion precisely because, instead of embracing and cultivating the diversity that is America, the major religions want to homogenize everyone and everything. It is this that causes division, even human destruction. What is supposed to bring sanity to this world is itself the cause of most insanity. It is madness.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-mcswain/god-in-america-the-pbs-sp_b_757098.html

Men are equal under God.  Every American is all equal, but there are rich Americans and poor Americans no matter what faith they have.

But it is a trap.  Of course, faith in God of the rich is false and faith in God of the poor can be true as is everywhere on the earth.

Do not trust rich Americans if they claim they are Christians, since they are not true Christians.

So, there are only two types: false faith and true faith even in the US.



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Joh 1:15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
Joh 1:16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
Joh 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.