The historical American slogan "God and Country" is an example of a double standard if there ever was one, especially in the context of American religious and political ideology. Understandably, countries like Israel, India, or China can claim this type slogan because they base their religious and political ideologies on the acknowledgment of an ancient Supreme Being; but America, in its current Christian religious and Capitalists political system cannot.

In the context of the slogan "God and Country", the very Bible confessors claim to follow, says that a believer of the Christian Messiah (Jesus Christ) must choose either Christ or the country they live. "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon" (St. Matthew 6:24).

The scripture means that in the case of any two opposing forces, such as God and any other entity contrary to His purpose, the believer must choose one or the other because they cannot serve both equally. Therefore, when people confess to and believe in the slogan "God and Country", deep within their subconscious, they either love God or hate the country, (hate as in cannot love) or vise-versa, or they are holding to one simply for the sake of declaration and duty and subconsciously tolerating the other. If one asserts that neither analysis describes their belief, then they have not full comprehension of the scripture's meaning or God's purpose. This mentality of either or is not discretionary but by the natural laws of human will, inevitable.

Israel, whom God promised to make of a great nation under the covenant of the Old Testament with laws and ordinances justified their existence, gave them a purpose, and fulfilled His promise by establishing them a land flowing with milk and honey. China, who serves Buddha, lives under the precepts and direction of their god and according to how they believe Buddha desires a society to operate. Any nationality of people on this earth who has occupied a territory from the beginning of time, no matter what god they believe, live and operate their society based on the desires of that god.

Any nationality that has adopted a religion and formed a nation based on that religion is not legitimate under natural law because they must make the nation work according to the religious belief. One such country is the United Sates; Christ never promised any people of his a country here on earth, in fact he said that all who believe in him would be pilgrims and wanderers throughout the earth having no certain dwelling place. In other words, Christians have no claim to any land or country here on earth, not according to the Messiah.

The founders of the United States built upon the grounds of America a nation using Christianity as a foundation, after they escaped the tyranny of Britain. They adopted Christianity, came to America and called themselves pilgrims, Puritans and Christians, and lived life according to the Holy Bible. Though they were possibly much more dedicated to God and their purpose than today's average American is, the early settlers were in no way as tolerable or compassionate as we are today.

In a state of building a society - which must have been morally and emotionally strenuous - they practiced slave labor; corrupt business ethics (as in thievery against the Indians), and waged war with any one who opposed their efforts, all in the name of Christianity.

As proud and successful in their efforts they were to have founded and built a nation away from the tyranny of the Mother country, American settlers confused the purpose of the very Bible they studied with the principles and political theories of building a nation. Thus by conjoining the two concepts, using God as a springboard for Country, the founders formed Christian Capitalism. More ironic though, there is a striking contradiction between the latter two.

While Christianity is based on equality for all, capitalism is based on survival of the fittest and social classism. Therefore, to proclaim the two together in the slogan "God and Country" is a direct contradiction because God encourages equality through Christ, yet America promotes inequality through capital, thus calling it Democracy.

If America and Christianity is to coexist, the follower of either will have to denounce their devotion to one and serve the other or else they are in transgression of the Word of God. For the confessors of "God and Country" to justify their belief, they must realize that Christianity and the American political and social system does not work in conjunction and they need to seek out the answer to God's proposed government system.