| "GOD, GUNS, AND GUTS: THAT S WHAT S MADEAMERICA GREAT!" So read a giant billboard seen throughout themidwest in 1975. This oversimplified convergence of God and coun-try, which views the prosperity of America as evidence of God sblessing and sees America s military might as the protector of Chris-tian values and civilization, is being challenged by people through-out our country and throughout the world. There was a time when love of God meant for me an uncriticalacceptance of our country s policies. The pathway leading to a dif-ferent understanding began when I stepped into new experiencesthat led to new questions. The poverty and inequality characteristicof Chicago and other American cities, and of countries such as India,Ethiopia, and Sri Lanka, radically called into question my traditionalworldview. At first, I was angry that my attitudes about God andcountry were being challenged. At one point as I walked through thestreets of Calcutta, the poverty so enraged me that I wanted toscream at God. How could God tolerate such suffering? Then I cameto a painful realization: in the suffering of the poor God was scream-ing at me, in fact at all of us and at our institutions and socialsystems that cause and perpetuate hunger, poverty, and inequality. |
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