{"id":2147,"date":"2013-10-07T06:16:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T11:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2013-10-08T09:40:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T14:40:38","slug":"2147","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/10\/07\/2147\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Morning Musical Meme &#8211; American Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American exceptionalism is all over the news these days, what with our (hopefully temporary) inability to hold our government together despite being the world&#8217;s oldest continuously functioning Constitutional democracy. As in written Constitution, for my British readers.<\/p>\n<p>We Americans are also exceptional in other ways, such as our retention of remarkably high levels of the old faiths depite being a prosperous and free country. I&#8217;m not about to assume that these two forms of exceptionalism are wholly unrelated, but this song is about the latter sort of exceptionalism.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bad Religion - American Jesus\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/12kcpP-8jfM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\nI don't need to be a global citizen<br \/>\n'Cause I'm blessed by nationality<br \/>\nI'm a member of a growing populace<br \/>\nWe enforce our popularity<\/p>\n<p>There are things that seem to pull us under and<br \/>\nThere are things that drag us down<br \/>\nBut there's a power and a vital presence<br \/>\nThat's lurking all around<\/p>\n<p>We've got the American Jesus<br \/>\nSee him on the interstate<br \/>\nWe've got the American Jesus<br \/>\nHe helped build the president's estate<\/p>\n<p>I feel sorry for the earth's population<br \/>\n'Cause so few live in the U.S.A.<br \/>\nAt least the foreigners can copy our morality<br \/>\nThey can visit but they cannot stay<\/p>\n<p>Only precious few can garner the prosperity<br \/>\nIt makes us walk with renewed confidence<br \/>\nWe've got a place to go when we die<br \/>\nAnd the architect resides right here<\/p>\n<p>We've got the American Jesus<br \/>\nBolstering national faith<br \/>\nWe've got the American Jesus<br \/>\nOverwhelming millions every day<\/p>\n<p>He's the farmers barren fields<br \/>\n(In God)<br \/>\nThe force the army wields<br \/>\n(We trust)<br \/>\nThe expression on the faces of the starving millions<br \/>\n(Because he's one of us)<\/p>\n<p>The power of the damned<br \/>\n(Break down)<br \/>\nThe fuel that drives the Klan<br \/>\n(Cave in)<br \/>\nHe's the motive and the conscience of the murderer<br \/>\n(He can redeem your sin)<\/p>\n<p>He's the preacher on TV<br \/>\n(Strong heart)<br \/>\nThe false sincerity<br \/>\n(Clear mind)<br \/>\nThe form letter that's written by the big computers<br \/>\n(And infinitely kind)<\/p>\n<p>The nuclear bombs<br \/>\n(You lose)<br \/>\nThe kids with no moms<br \/>\n(We win)<br \/>\nAnd I'm fearful that he's inside me<br \/>\n(He is our champion)<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, we've got the American Jesus<br \/>\nSee him on the interstate<br \/>\n(We've got the American Jesus)<br \/>\nWe've got the American Jesus<br \/>\nExercising his authority<\/p>\n<p>We've got the American Jesus<br \/>\nBolstering National faith<br \/>\n(We've got the American Jesus)<br \/>\nWe've got the American Jesus<br \/>\nOverwhelming millions every day<\/p>\n<p>One nation under God<br \/>\nOne nation under God<br \/>\nOne nation under God<\/p>\n<p><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American exceptionalism is all over the news these days, what with our (hopefully temporary) inability to hold our government together&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-memes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}