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    Friday, February 26, 2010, 8:04 AM

    My friend Doug Wilson has a great post today about American Exceptionalism. Here’s a piece of it:

    If anyone could believe in exceptionalism, and have actual verses to point to, it would have been the Hebrews. And yet note that God warns them of this pattern, which is as old as dirt. He included them. Nothing is as ordinary and boring as nationalistic hubris. Displays of this sin with the stars and stripes waving in the background are just as obnoxious and just as wicked as when anybody else does it — and everybody else has done it.

    Read the whole thing, including the comments.

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