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God and the Art of Toy and Diecast
Marketing
Make America Great Again
By L. S. Su
"Make America Great Again"
was the slogan used by one of our parties during the 2016 Presidential
contest that helped propel their candidate into office. In the
twenty first century, the United States remained a two party
system. These two parties (groups) control almost all elected
public office positions throughout he country. Both of these
groups will say they welcome other parties to participate, but
in reality these two parties don't invite other people who are
not affiliated with them to the party (e.g. debates, access
to funding, media attention).
As I turn the words over in my
head, "Make America Great Again" a bunch of questions
come to mind. Questions like:
This slogan implies that at one
time we were Great, but no longer. When was the United States
great?
What does the word, "Great" mean? Because what is
great for you might not be great for me.
How is America to become "Great" again?
I think I see a pattern the American
people have developed in business and politics. When we don't
know how to do something, we hire someone, Then if they don't
perform to some subjective level of satisfaction, we fire them.
What is kind of ironic is the President elect is very familiar
with the words, "You're Fired!". I think we implement
this strategy so that we can always point the finger at someone
else and say it's this person's or group's fault; because it's
obviously not my fault that America isn't great. Also, I have
a hunch that if you have expectations that a single person or
a single administration is going to make America great, I think
you will be thoroughly disappointed in a short time.
As I turn the words over in my
head again, "Make America Great Again", maybe the
first step is to figure out what is the source of greatness
and the second step is to figure out what doesn't make us "Great"
and stop doing what doesn't make us great. Pretty simple recommendation
from a toy salesman.
For a great nation, what is the
ultimate source of greatness? Is it their weapons of war and
the ability to destroy life quickly that makes a nation great?
Does greatness ultimate come from uncorrupt leadership? Or perhaps
the source of greatness comes from the people of that nation?
I happen to take the view that the source of all greatness comes
from God. In America's history, and not that long ago, we had
a great leader for the American people and he too believed that
the source of greatness comes from God. Read the first sentence
of Lincoln's
proclamation that he made Thanksgiving a national holiday.
"The year that is drawing
towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful
fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so
constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the
source from which they come, others have been added,
which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail
to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually
insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty
God." -President Abraham Lincoln
Fortunately for us, we have in
our history books a well documented case where there once was
a great nation. This nation had great leadership, its people
flourished, their economy flourished, and they had peace inside
their own country as well on all its borders. They actually
exported more than they imported too. Then the people inside
this great nation started adopting practices that God found
"detestable" and God withdrew his presence and this
nation ceased being great.
"So what were the two "detestable"
practices the citizens of this great nation started to do?
“‘And you took your
sons and daughters whom you bore to me and sacrificed them
as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough? You
slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.
In all your detestable practices and your prostitution you
did not remember the days of your youth,'" -Ezekiel
16: 20 -22
Apparently, God finds it extremely
undesirable for the people of a nation to slaughter their own
children to idols. These idols had fancy names like "Molek"
and "Adrammelek".
In America today, we continue this detestable practice in larger
numbers and at a faster rate than this great nation in the past.
So basically we have scaled up this practice and changed the
idols names to something easier to pronounce "Freedom Of"
and "My Comfort".
The second practice this once great
nation started doing was this:
"You not only followed
their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all
your ways you soon became more depraved than they. As surely
as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, your sister Sodom
and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have
done." -Ezekiel
16: 47 - 48
So what was this second detestable
practice this nation started doing? God tells us in the very
next verse.
Now this was the sin of your
sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed
and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. -Ezekiel
16: 49
That it? Not helping the poor and
needy? Wow, apparently in God economy and value system, he puts
not helping the "poor and needy" on par with murdering
your own children. We Americans haven't become arrogant, overfed,
and unconcerned have we?
I am starting to become fearful
for American and for people in foreign countries. It seems that
we have already adopted the two detestable practices this once
great nation had adopted. I know from being immersed in the
American culture that two of the top values most Americans seem
to have developed is a desire for 1) personal comfort and 2)
security. These two values (aka idols) have become so strong
that we've already demonstrated that we're willing to sacrifice
much (our own and other people's basic human rights) in order
to retain these two values.
Check out this stat. "An estimated
11 million Syrians have fled their homes since the outbreak
of the civil war in March 2011. Now, in the sixth year of war,
13.5 million are in need of humanitarian assistance within the
country. Among those escaping the conflict, the majority have
sought refuge in neighboring countries or within Syria itself.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR), 4.8 million have fled to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt
and Iraq, and 6.6 million are internally displaced within Syria.
Meanwhile about one million have requested asylum to Europe.
Germany, with more than 300,000 cumulated applications, and
Sweden with 100,000, are EU’s top receiving countries."
If generosity is measured by the
number of "poor and needy" we assist and if you divide
by the population of that country, you'll see that America has
been one of the least generous countries. As of a few months
ago, our nation has only taken in 10,000 men, women, and children
who simply desire to live. Why so few America? Our we not the
greatest nation in the world? I forgot, the slogan implies that
we are no longer great.
Our desire for personal comfort
and our security is starting to "trump" all other
values. If you have Irish, English, French, German, Spanish,
European, or Asian ancestry in your blood (or basically if you
are not a native American and can claim affiliation with an
Indian tribe), then consider yourself fortunate. Because the
American people a few generations were great and they made our
nation great. They were not arrogant, overfed or unconcerned;
and they did help the poor and needy in huge boat load quantities.
Had they adopted the two idols we have today, your ancestors
would never have arrived to this land; and you probably wouldn't
be an American today.
If God is truly the source of greatness,
I just don't see that we can make America Great Again, while
we continue to engage in these two detestable practices. We
should cut these two idols out of our diet and we should hold
onto this promise God has given us:
"if my people, who are
called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek
my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear
from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their
land." -2
Chronicles 7: 14
Sources:
The
Syrian refugee crisis and its repercussions for the EU,
http://syrianrefugees.eu/
10,000th
Syrian Refugee Will Arrive in the U.S. Today. NBC News,
August 29, 2016
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