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“America has been blessed by God in unique ways — we are not just another country, but neither are we God’s special people,” writes Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.\u00a0“I do not believe that America is God’s chosen nation.<\/p>\n

“We do not have ‘God on our side.’ We are not God’s gift to the world.”<\/p>\n

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