{"id":99846,"date":"2016-07-01T07:51:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T15:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=99846"},"modified":"2016-07-01T08:22:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T16:22:36","slug":"gersh-kuntzman-major-league-baseball-must-permanently-retire-god-bless-america-a-song-that-offends-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=99846","title":{"rendered":"Gersh Kuntzman: Major League Baseball must permanently retire \u2018God Bless America,\u2019 a song that offends everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently columnist Gersh Kuntzman has recovered from the PTSD produced by firing an AR-15<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Gersh Kuntzman writes<\/a>: <\/p>\n

It\u2019s time for God to stop blessing America during the seventh-inning stretch.<\/p>\n

Welcome to the July 4 holiday weekend \u2014 when once again, baseball fans will be assaulted by the saccharine-sweet non-anthem \u201cGod Bless America\u201d at stadia all over this great land.<\/p>\n

But no matter which home team you root, root, root for, \u201cGod Bless America\u201d should be sent permanently to the bench…<\/p>\n

Part of my outrage stems from ponderous Mussolini-esque introduction of the song, when fans are asked to rise, remove their caps and place them over their hearts…<\/p>\n

\u201cGod Bless America\u201d is as divisive as American politics: Kaskowitz\u2019s research found that 83.8% of people who described themselves as \u201cvery liberal\u201d dislike the song, while only 20.5% of people who called themselves \u201cvery conservative\u201d have a problem with it.<\/p>\n

And more than 88% of atheists dislike the song, Kaskowitz found. (Quick aside: We atheists also hate having \u201cIn God we Trust\u201d on the currency and in the courtrooms of a country whose Constitution bars the \u201cestablishment of religion\u201d \u2014 but that\u2019s a fight for another day.)<\/p>\n

…Fans of the actual other National Anthem!: Unlike \u201cGod Bless America,\u201d the better seventh-inning song, \u201cTake Me Out to the Ballgame,\u201d captures the essential joy of American life: You go to a baseball game and you don\u2019t care if you ever get back. And, sure, you root for the home team, but who cares if it wins or loses? You\u2019re at a BALLGAME! With peanuts AND Crackerjack!<\/p>\n

So this July 4, join me at the Church of Baseball by not rising and not doffing your cap for a song that is not the national anthem of a nation that is not uniquely blessed by some deity that doesn\u2019t exist anyway.<\/p>\n

If you want to thank God for blessing America, you can do it on Sunday in the other church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Great! Another left-wing Jew wants to destroy the goyim’s national and religious identity. I am so glad that the goyim have even more reason to think of Jews as aliens in their midst. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently columnist Gersh Kuntzman has recovered from the PTSD produced by firing an AR-15. Gersh Kuntzman writes: It\u2019s time for God to stop blessing America during the seventh-inning stretch. Welcome to the July 4 holiday weekend \u2014 when once again, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99846"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99875,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99846\/revisions\/99875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}