I was reading the thread in this forum entitled 'The Arrogance of Power'. Towards the end of the article the author writes:

"May God continue to bless the United States of America in the troubled days ahead,"

I am wondering what this American, and others on this site mean by the words 'God bless America'. This is how I understand them:

The words God Bless America imply that somehow the US is above every other country. They imply that America is to the world what jesus was to humans (if he existed, which he didn't). No other country is 'blessed by God', just the US, because it is somehow more deserving than anywhere else.

I am curious as to what others, especially Americans, think about what I think is a very arrogant sentence, and sums up the whole attitude of the US. Please reply with intelligent posts, I am not trying to stir up trouble, and I am not trying to get into a debate on whether God does or does not exist.