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Prayer my darling, where to find you? Rules...
Avoid "my team vs yours". (Check Lincoln 2nd inaugural.) Do not demonize. Do not demonize. "As we forgive those who trespass." Do it!
Jeremiah to Israelites: stop demonizing Gentile peoples. Take that energy, turn it to God. (Team spirit as a nation's idolatry? Is this our fate?) The prophet's audience didn't listen, but turned faith into a sporting challenge and lost the challenge.
God doesn't give a damn about our competition.
Flee the triumph, avoid the prayer of GW Bush. Christianity as Caesarist triumphalism beyond Constantine's wildest urging -- was there ever such a danger to faith? When evangelicals grow so corrupted, who is left?
America as "my team", other people as the hub of evil. No way. We are in quicksand without a prophet to pull us out. Help us God. Please. Help our enemies too. Bush too.
Politics is a foxhole now.
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