I had a thought last night while brushing my teeth. I had just finished viewing The Bourne Ultimatum and was thinking about how the top brass could just order someone killed - they had a license to kill. Then I thought about the fact that we as a society give permission for this kind of thing.

I made a connection back to the Christian belief that all people are inherently flawed and sinful, we are given to commit evil and wrong. So it makes sense that a society would allow someone to kill. What gets me is that many sects of American Christianity also believe that The United States is somehow inherently good - that this country, though made up of inherently flawed and sinful people, is a force for good and doesnt commit wrongs - or if it does then it was for a good reason.

If society is made up of inherently flawed parts isnt the sum of those parts flawed as well? After all the corruption and deception over the years why do people wave the American flag like it is on par with Jesus?

Have American Christians (certain sects) abandoned God for the false idol of patriotism?