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December 16, 2006

Allowing "God to restore his favor to America"

Rude Pundit writes about the Family Research Council's latest Prayer Team marching orders courtesy of FRC head honcho Tony Perkins. It seems that Perkins is deeply concerned about the results of this year's Congressional elections. Presumably all those who voted for Democrats were defying God's will because "The next two years may bring the most profoundly anti-faith, family and freedom initiatives in the history of Congress." And Perkins wants his Prayer Team to "Pray that God will multiply His prayer army during the next two years. May He train men, women and young people to be disciplined, focused, faith-filled and equipped to challenge whatever may come." The point of this effort is clearly the 2008 Presidential elections. "Pray that God will intervene to give America a President who knows and fears Him, who will lead our nation in righteousness and call Americans to the kind of prayer and to repentance that will allow God to restore his favor to America."

Allowing God to restore his favor to America implies that sometime in the sainted past America was under divine favor. But when?

Was America under God's favor when black slavery was officially condoned? When a white man could rape his black slaves when and where he wished? When slaves could be whipped to within an inch (and well beyond) of his life at the sole disgression of the slave owner?

Was America under God's favor during the so-called "nigger hunts" which claimed thousands of lives in the 1860s and 1870s?

Was America under God's favor in 1904 when black sharecropper Luther Holbert and his wife were chained to a tree and an audience of 600 white spectators enjoyed treats like deviled eggs, lemonade, and whiskey in a festive atmosphere while Mr. and Mrs. Holbert had first their fingers chopped off one by one, followed by their ears, followed by a severe beating that left Mr. Holbert with one eye dangling from it's factured socket, followed by "spirals...of raw, quivering flesh" being extracted from both Holberts via a corkscrew before the couple were finally burned alive?

Was America under God's favor in 1951 when black sharecropper Matt Ingram was convicted of "rape by leer" for oogling a white women 75 feet away from him?

Was America under God's favor when ethnic cleansing led to an estimated four thousand Cherokee deaths on the infamous Trail of Tears in 1838?

Was America under God's favor in 1890 when L. Frank Baum, editor of South Dakota's Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer newspaper (later to become famous as the author of "The Wizard of Oz"), advocated the extermination of all America's Indians just one week prior to the slaughter at Wounded Knee, which history books conveniently describe as possibly having been started by the very natives who were slaughtered?

The nobility of the Redskin is extinquished and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them. The whites by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced, better they should die than live the miserable wretches that they are. - L. Frank Baum

Was America under God's favor during any of the numerous other acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing from it's earliest days throught the end of the 19th century?

Was America under God's favor during the Salem Witch Trials when 20 were executed and between 175 and 200 were imprisoned (five of whom died in prison)?

Was America under God's favor when Abrahan Lincoln was murdered? When John F. Kennedy was murdered? When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor? When the Civil War shed more American blood than any other war in our history? When the KKK roamed the South and terrorized blacks?

When was America "under God's favor" and what events demonstrate that favor?

Posted by Kevin at December 16, 2006 12:45 PM