Argumentative Essay: Is America A Fearless Nation?

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We are not a fearless nation nor are we a cowardly nation, but we are a nation whose morals have left years ago, and whose bravery is a face that hides our hypocrisy; America is a lost nation. Fearless means that we lack fear, but we fear everything. We claim that refugees cannot come into our country because, we barely take care of our homeless and hungry. This cannot be used as a defense in our reasoning because we preach it and do nothing. We, the lot of American people, do nothing to change the outcome of the homeless. At most we throw them our spare change and even then do we still hold back. We think of all that we can still have with our spare change and we keep some; we’ve lost our selflessness. “Refugees can’t join our country because we don’t know who is friend and who is foe.” My own words just weeks ago until a dear friend of mine opened my eyes. I said those …show more content…

We let them fight for our freedom, that I can respect, but our bravery is a façade. We say we fight for something we’ve never lost. We accuse countries, religions, and races of terrorism, violence, and preparation for all-out war, when really we have prepared ourselves for the same. We have many people ready and prepared to fight for our country, but do they even know what they’re fighting for? It’s like we’re trying to be the most feared, like that is the only way to defend our people, but there’s no reason to fight if the American people aren’t in danger. We say that our country was built on Christian belief, but don’t act that way. We say that our nation is “one nation under God,” but politicians don’t act that way. They pretend that they have to hide their belief because we aren’t to mix church and state, but we already have. No one seems to understand that we mixed church and state when we first began. God was held high in our country, but now we’re pulling ourselves from him just to follow a rule that is hypocritical to all the

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