Nation versus Country:
The Shift of Political Entities to Ideological Foundations, and Back Again?
By David A Wemhoff
(From April, 2015. On July 19, 2018, the Israeli Knesset voted to make Israel an ethnic state. Liberalism is under assault.)
“Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations….” Matthew 28:19
“Rome is strangling my people and my country….” Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) from Ben-Hur (1959)
Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu seems to anger presidents. One of the most powerful presidents is Barrack Obama of the United States of America. The occasions of their conflicts have been covered by the media with “Bibi’s” disagreement over the handling of Iran and its nuclear program probably the most notable instance given his talk to a joint session of Congress on March 3. Another powerful president that Bibi has angered is the President of Israel, and fellow member of the Likud Party, Reuven Rivlin. Most recently, Rivlin criticized Bibi’s speech to the US Congress and his comments on the day of the election which were that because Arab citizens of Israel were coming out to vote in large numbers, the Likud needed to get its members to the polls. As reported by The Jerusalem Post, Continue reading
From John Courtney Murray, Time/Life, and The American Proposition by David Wemhoff
Luce Delivers the American Proposition
Henry Luce, the son of a Presbyterian missionary, put his publishing might at the service of the American empire by touting the idea of America’s “adherence to the moral law” and the “American Holy Alliance with God” in a 500-word document that became known as the “Ridgefield Memorandum,” which committed Time, Inc. to teaching the world about the special relationship between God and America contained in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.[i]