In any event, the King James Bible was a great blessing to the English-speaking world, and Harold Bloom's literary appreciation of the KJB is another great blessing to the English-speaking world. Blessing upon blessing. Indeed, Harold Bloom himself is a great blessing to the English-speaking world. Just look at the abundance of thought-provoking books he has written to enrich our lives. Blessing upon blessing upon blessing. He is a national treasure providing us with so many fine books to be read and cherished. Even if he has lost his trust in God, he has enriched our collective American life together in our experiment in governing ourselves through our representative democracy. There is a covenant-quality to our collective American life together, and Harold Bloom is one American who has done far more than his fair share to enhance and strengthen the covenant-quality of our collective American life. I am thankful to have read some if his books because I have always benefited from reading them.
John Winthrop famously mentioned a city on a hill, which obviously could be seen by all people approaching the city, as any city on a hill could be. As we Americans today urge autocratic government in the world today to give way to democratic government, we should remember that a democratic polity today should embody the covenant-quality that ancient Hebrew people pioneered. If American citizens do not manifest a strong sense of mutual obligation toward one another, then our representative democratic form of government will not measure up to the standard Winthrop urged us to use. To measure up to Winthrop's standard, we Americans today must measure up to the standard of mutual obligation pioneered by the ancient Hebrews if we want our country to measure up to Winthrop's vision of being a city on a hill for others to look up to.
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