Ahh, yes, one more of those self-righteous, judgmental, chest-beating, phony christian types, who uses their own perverted idiosyncratic version of "christianity" as a dark cover for their own bigotry, ignorance and shortcomings. Why is it that they consistently fail to understand - much less attempt to practice - that one singular commandment from Jesus: "That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another (John 13:34). I've met many of you in the evangelical and fundamental churches of my youth, hypocrites gleefully condemning others with little concern for "the log in their own eye" (Matthew 7:3). Let me put this to you, sunshine, in the most straight-forward manner possible. You are free to believe whatever you wish and spout your pathetic dribble but in this country the likes of you and your disgusting ilk don't get to define my patriotism nor disparage my spirituality - or lack of it. As far as I'm concerned, you can take your pseudo-christian BS and stick it up your sanctimonious arse. Should there be a god, I can well imagine that he/she/it is as disgusted at your pathetic, self-serving congratulatory behavior as I am.

Here's something to consider. The trinity is a concept central to Christianity, is it not? One god, just one, but 3 facets so to speak. The father, the son, and the holy ghost/spirit are one in the same, are they not? You can say Jesus, God the Father, or the Holy Spirit and you're referring to the exact EXACT same entity. Now then, the god of Judaism is the same as God the Father of Christianity is the same as Jesus. Or else you toss out the trinity concept. And Allah is the same as the Jewish Abrahamic god and therefore the same as Jesus and the Holy Spirit, or else you throw out the trinity concept. Therefore, if you accept the trinity, you should consider all Jews and Muslims to be Christian.

Just 3 different ways to worship. Consider all the wars fought in Europe between Protestant and Catholics, the Spanish and other inquisitions before you condemn any religion as being more violent than yours. The Salem witch trials and on and on and on. All in the name of god.

Yes, Kate became identified with that song.

"God Bless America" came in for it's share of criticism, though. No good deed goes unpunished.

"The song wasn’t without its critics. Certain Democrats called the song jingoistic, questioning why God should bless America and no other country, and what about separation of church and state? Others griped about Berlin’s pedigree. As a Russian Jew who immigrated to the U.S. in 1893, why should he speak for America? A prominent pastor in New York, Edgar Franklin Romig, grabbed headlines by calling the song a “specious substitute for religion.

"One songwriter who didn’t like Berlin’s anthem was Woody Guthrie. It’s said that he got so fed up with hearing Kate Smith on the radio, he wrote a rebuttal in “This Land Is Your Land.” In the original version of Guthrie’s classic, he painted pictures of a desolate, corrupt country, ending each verse with “God blessed America for you and me.”