A Christian Minister Opposes 'God Bless America'

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In My Opinion SRN Talkers SRN Correspondents Featured Articles Most Watched SRN NEWS Quickhits Political Cartoons The Weekly Feed June 13, 2013 A Christian Minister Opposes 'God Bless America' By: Dennis Prager If you were a Christian minister who was given the opportunity to write an op-ed piece for the Washington Post, what subject would you choose? War and peace? The decline in faith among America's young people? The increasingly empty pews in mainstream Protestant churches? The ethical decline in society? Or any of myriad other morally and religiously troubling issues? Well, not if you were a Methodist minister named James P. Marsh, Jr. For this man of the cloth, the issue troubling him so much that he had to write about in the Washington Post was ... people standing and singing "God Bless America" at Washington National baseball games. If you want to know how far much of mainline Christianity has declined, Pastor Marsh's column would be a fine place to begin. 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