As believers we worship God, but as citizens we should never worship our government or nation; neither of these are gods, and neither of them has a soul. Nations are made up of a collection of individual people who are either likeminded, ruled by a common system of government, or of common ancestry, but even though God blesses or punishes groups of individual citizens that have joined to constitute a nation He does not punish or reward the abstract thought that we call a nation… only the people who espouse its ideology and pursue it. Are we guilty of raising up our country and government to the level of God? Do we shout out “For God and Country!” as we run into battle against our neighbor or those we consider our enemies, and treat God and country as if they were equals?