Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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So… Americans are God’s people and not any other nation? Not even Israel? Hmm…
Yup
Ross Douthat for American President.
Just ask any well minded Native American if they celebrate the Fourth the way the rest of the nation or rather, those patriotic celebrate the Fourth?
I comment as a Pomo Indian from the great land of my nativity, California.
Michael, I don’t celebrate it either.
A native American author Sherman Alexie was discussing the perils of being ambiguously ethnic after 9/11 and relayed this story:
“I was walking down the street when a white guy drove up in a big phallic truck and screamed out the window ‘why don’t you go back to your own country!’ I turned to him and replied, ‘You first’.