National Security: The Musical

Bryan Fischer has discovered the secret to a safe and secure nation:

If you want to know why America has been kept safe since 9/11, I believe we have professional baseball, football, and basketball owners to thank for giving Americans the opportunity to engage in consistent corporate intercession for the safety of this nation.

Thanks to those corporate ministers of goodness and light, those deacons of deliverance – sports teams owners, fans can drink warm beer, eat bad food and deliver the nation because…wait for it

The singing of “God Bless America” has been a staple since 9/11 in virtually every major league baseball stadium, and, inspired by baseball’s example, is now a consistent part of pregame festivities at NFL games and NBA games, as well as college football and basketball games.

It is scriptural after all, I think the verse goes like this:

If My people, who are called by My name, will mindlessly mumble a prayer set to music at contests involving people who are paid obscene amounts of money, then I hear from heaven and keep evil people from blowing up your land.

I think that is in the OT somewhere.

On a serious note, I feel sure that the very patriotic Irving Berlin would be thrilled to know that his song is inspiring to many. He might also point out the roots of the song to his Jewish mother, if Wikipedia’s quote of the Economist is to be believed.

While he was growing up on the Lower East Side, she would say “God bless America” often, to indicate that, without America, her family would have had no place to go. The Economist magazine wrote that by writing “God Bless America”, Berlin was “producing a deep-felt paean to the country that had given him what he would have said was everything. It is a melody that still makes his fellow countrymen want to stand up and place their hands over their hearts.

10 thoughts on “National Security: The Musical”

  1. I’m beginning to think that Bryan Fischer truly does have mental health issues.

  4. This is a very common declaration in fundamentalist and even evangelical churches…it is part of the culture of American Christianity as it attempted to weld Old Testament prohibitions and admonitions to a set of values which included our current legal system.

    It is hard to remember that as little as 350 years ago, the Bible was the only commonly held text and that much of American cultural values, for the common man especially, was derived from deductive and inductive reasoning based upon scripture.

  6. This is a very common declaration in fundamentalist and even evangelical churches…it is part of the culture of American Christianity as it attempted to weld Old Testament prohibitions and admonitions to a set of values which included our current legal system.

    It is hard to remember that as little as 350 years ago, the Bible was the only commonly held text and that much of American cultural values, for the common man especially, was derived from deductive and inductive reasoning based upon scripture.

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