Politics & Power Quote by Neale Donald Walsch

National pride, in Walsch's telling, isn't a harmless team sport. It's a slipstream: you start by cheering for your zip code and end up arguing on behalf of the cosmos. The line works because it tracks how identity escalates when it stops being descriptive and becomes comparative. "My place" is stable; "my place is better than yours" needs an opponent. Once you require an opponent, you also need a tribunal. Religion, here, becomes the ultimate court of appeal: if God is on our side, the argument is no longer negotiable.

Walsch's intent is moral and diagnostic. He isn't merely condemning patriotism; he's mapping a psychology of superiority that keeps searching for higher ground until it reaches the highest possible authority. The structure is a tightening spiral - state, nation, God - that mimics the way conflict laundered through bigger abstractions feels cleaner, even as it gets more dangerous. By the time you hit "Our God is better", you've moved from politics to metaphysics, from policy to purity.

The subtext is a critique of "identity as possession". Each "our" sounds communal, but it also signals a boundary: insiders get belonging, outsiders get measured. In a late-20th/early-21st century context - culture wars, post-9/11 nationalism, and globalized anxieties - Walsch is warning how easily tribalism recruits the sacred. When faith becomes a scoreboard, it doesn't elevate public life; it sanctifies contempt.