James Taranto calls the rescued Christian Peacemaker Teams Ingrates to Their Very Souls:
There is a whole strange worldview at work here — a theology, if you will. We don’t claim to understand it fully, but it seems to equate America as the root of all evil and America’s adversaries as Edenic creatures — innocents who know not good or evil and thus bear no culpability for their bad actions.If we have this right, it follows that the CPT Christians see themselves, by virtue of their faith, as being forgiven for being American, or for being from another nation that America has corrupted. This is why they cannot be grateful to, or forgiving of, America: For them that would amount to thanking or forgiving sin itself.