Glorifying the American

"50 Americans killed, and some minor collateral damage."
A common American news flash.
This is cause for tragedy, but for the wrong reason.
what you don't know is that the collateral damage is actually a few hundred Afghani civilians who were needlessly exterminated.
But ingrained into the minds of the people of our glorious nation is the idea that somehow an American life is worth more than a non-American life.
Sure, no one would state that outright, but the fact that a few Americans dying is a tragedy while
thousands starving to death every day
thousands enslaved into child sex labor every day
thousands of babies aborted every day
is somehow no problem, no weight whatsoever on our minds.

Do you think that is how God sees people? Does he see some as American lives and others as less worthy of life?

Absolutely not. So if you are merely trying to escape the pain that would ensue if you were to consider that foreigners are also humans
or if you are merely a victim of our media and governments efforts to glorify the All American Ubermensch into a higher form of life:
break away from this lie.

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