Is it Wrong to Love Another Country More Than Your Own?

[phil19034]

I do live in the U.S. My family came here during ww1 (a lot went back to fight for the emperor lol). And the country I hope to go too is Russia (I’m not crazy) as I’m Russo-Germanic. Almost everything about Russia I find appealing, the culture, the history, the people and politics. I know that it’s behind the U.S in development and that I would be giving up certain privileges, but I just want to go back to where my family came from. Also don’t worry, I’m definitely visiting before I actually decide to live there lol.

Here is hypothetical question… If Russia invades Alaska tomorrow and we go to war with them, which country are you going to side with? Your home country or your ancestral home?

Personally, my ancestral homes are Italy, Spain, England & Germany. Just like my Italian & German grandparents, great-grandparents, great-uncles, etc did, during World War I & II, I would quickly defend the US against one of my ancestral homes if they attacked us.

Why? Because this is my home. Our first allegiance should be to our home (unless our home is an unjust aggressor)

 

[Jonathan3]

I know about all of this. Without getting to much into politics, I would like to see Putin as Tsar, and I believe in the devine right of kings as well. And I don’t agree with everything in the U.S constitution, so these contradictions don’t bother me. With all do respect, and to save this thread from becoming a heated debate lol, an online argument won’t change my views on him. My family and friends try daily, and have yet to succeed lol.

 

[Emeraldlady]

If you were approached to pass on information to Russia in order to advance the causes you admire of Putins, would you do it?

 

[Jonathan3]

As in aiding in the restoration of the monarchy? Aiding in reducing abortions? To help him protect future generations from the LGBTQ movement?
Absolutely yes.

 

[HomeschoolDad]

This one’s simple. If you love another country more than your own, you need to pack up and move there. If you live in a country and make it your home, you owe that country your loyalty. That is the filial virtue of patriotism. That does not mean swallowing everything your country tells you, or approving of everything that its government does, or that its social order embraces. You can work for change, and reform, and restoring the social order to what it should be. But if there is another country that has caught your fancy (I’d hope you’d visit that country for a fairly extended period of time first, and possibly even live and work there for awhile), and if you come to prefer that country over your own, then just move. They should welcome you — if they don’t, you might want to reconsider your preference.

 

[CaptFun]

Ooh boy. I love America.

But there’s always a lot wrong with “IT” or more positively, still much GOOD to he done.

Tomorrow is election day. Hooray for freedom.

WE have the “right to choose”.

“WE” have at times chosen the doggone-dest
evil things and people though.

Many people tomorrow will try to put power into the hands of folks who are openly OK with taking innocent life. That’s a part of America I am ashamed of … and I opposed that part of “my country” even as I love her.

Is the Kingdom of Heaven a country?

Yes! Though not of this world.

I love IT too. And I should love IT better than .

But I like the Southern California weather, access to these forums, Angels baseball, just fine for now.

Heaven can wait …
but it’s a better “country”
beginning and ending with its leadership.

 

[HomeschoolDad]

Ooh boy. I love America.

But there’s always a lot wrong with “IT” or more positively, still much GOOD to he done.

Tomorrow is election day. Hooray for freedom.

WE have the “right to choose”.

“WE” have at times chosen the doggone-dest
evil things and people though.

Many people tomorrow will try to put power into the hands of folks who are openly OK with taking innocent life. That’s a part of America I am ashamed of … and I opposed that part of “my country” even as I love her.

Is the Kingdom of Heaven a country?

Yes! Though not of this world.

I love IT too. And I should love IT better than .

But I like the Southern California weather, access to these forums, Angels baseball, just fine for now.

Heaven can wait …
but it’s a better “country”
beginning and ending with its leadership.

I am deeply grateful to Almighty God for having been born in the United States of America. I do not love her Masonic and deistic origins — they have failed to provide a “firewall” against the asserted right to abortion or gay marriage — nor do I accept that we have God-given “rights” to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These rights are part of our social compact, but that is all they are. Ditto for the things embodied in the Bill of Rights. (The right to bear arms is probably an extension of one’s natural law right of self-defense, but a realm is within its rights to disallow certain types of weapons — I do not need a tank or a low-yield nuclear rocket launcher in my garage.) But whatever I love or don’t love about the philosophical foundations of this country, as long as I live here and profit from her protections, I owe her my loyalty and piety.

 

[Emeraldlady]

As in aiding in the restoration of the monarchy? Aiding in reducing abortions? To help him protect future generations from the LGBTQ movement?
Absolutely yes.

This is worrisome in my opinion. All a foreign network has to do is tell you what you want to hear or what they know you won’t scrutinise too much, and you’ll agree to spy for them. You should watch the Netflix documentary about Kim Philby.

 

[Jonathan3]

I feel like that was a bit of a trick question…
But I’ll take it lol

 

[Emeraldlady]

I feel like that was a bit of a trick question…
But I’ll take it lol

Not really. We don’t know how far you mean ‘loving’ another country more than your own is to you. The USSR and Russia today make a practice of cultivating foreign informants for the sake of it’s own advancement. It’s the subject of many fiction and non fiction stories.

 

[OddBird]

I have three “heart countries”. The one I was born and grew up in, France ; the one my husband was born and grew up in, South Korea ; the one we live in, Switzerland. I feel I owe some kind of loyalty to each one of them.

But none of them is perfect. All have their strengths and their particular beauty, all have their flaws, sometimes very deep, very troubling flaws.

If anything, it helps me remember that my only true country, the only one whose citizenship I should value above all, is the one I will be going back to when I breathe my last.