Ever feel like a traitor when you are singing that song? Like the writer of America The Beautiful will come out of her(Kathie Bates) grave and smite you?
We were singing it recently and several things struck me...
Spacious Skies-- Which we have polluted and chemically treated
Amber waves of Grain, Above the fruited Plain-- ground and ground waters which we have poisoned and chemically altered so that it has become dependent on man made synthetic fertilizers, fruits and crops that are treated with hormones and pesticides so that we have to wash what we get from the stores or risk strange ailments (do you realize we didn't have to do that since the beginning of TIME??)
Purple Mountain Majesty-- which we bring low with unrestricted strip mining which causes flooding and again poisonous ground water with un-treated runoff
Alabaster Cities--have you SEEN LA recently?
I realize she only wrote the song in 1913, but so much has become perverted in that time I feel like the worst kind of person singing the song. We as a nation were given a glorious gift in this country and we have squandered it in the name of progress and the greed of the elite.
In reality there is nothing worth saving out of our government except the most precious original ideals that were first laid down. It was a good idea, but just like every other thing in this whole country we have perverted and destroyed it to the point of being unrecognizable.
God's Grace sure better be shining on us... cause we freakin need it...
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