As Republicans campaign to be the one to oppose Obama in the next election, all of the front-runners have publicly emphasized an important foreign policy view.  It is that God wants the United States to dominate the world and to rule over it for the next century. It is, they say, God's role and destiny for the United States. (It is already, obviously, the position of Obama, too.)

I wonder if any of our clergy could provide me with biblical references that support this claim.

155 people, all those aboard the plane that crashed in the Hudson River this afternoon, survived .

Did God save them?

Did the pilot save them?

Was it destiny or fate?

If one of these people dies a month from now by being hit   by a train, why would God save them today to have them die a month later?