"It should be Pentecost on the Church calendar, but all over America on Sunday, churches will be ignoring the Spirit's commission to go and be the Church (i.e., evangelize, feed, clothe, give, love) in favor of our annual dance with civil religion. This Sunday churches will sing patriotic songs; they will have men and women in uniform stand; they will honor veterans; they will parade American flags down the aisle in some sort of perverse processional; and they will talk about the sacrifices freedom requires. I know of one church in Oklahoma that will be showing Toby Keith's 'American Soldier' video. That is too sad to make fun of."

Damn straight. I am so tired of the melding of patriotism and Christianity until people cannot separate between the two. Read the rest of it here: the parish: Services are Beginning on Idolatry Sunday