[shrinkermd]

This is an exceptional essay. Any politician who runs for office in the red zone simply must read and understand it.

[TBP]

Unfortunately, its worst enemies are burrowing at it from within. Tehy're called liberals.

[Lurker]

It's a very fine article indeed.

Thanks for sharing it.

L

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They hate us because we believe in God.

[Torie]

If you undertake to remove Americanism from its native biblical soil, you had better connect it to some other energy source potent enough to keep its principles alive and blooming.

The above is an issue this near Atheist takes seriously. What keeps this nation bound in an almost sui generis sense are ideas, and one of those ideas is "a-rational" beliefs about good and evil, and need to be engaged, which for the majority on the fruited plain, means the Bible.

[mrsmith]

I don't think it's all that useful to equate the belief that we are a chosen people blessed by- and beholden to- God with Puritanism. There were a lot of other precepts in Puritanism, I assume many of them are not significantly part of our national character.
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He does do an awfully good job of gertting at the heart of "Americanism". The wisdom in the bible has been tested by us and found sound. and we've increased our understanding of it by 'trying' it, and we've kept a freedom to re-examine our understanding at all times,

We're really something, there's no getting around it.

[Soul Seeker]

Exceptional piece. Should this author publish this within the expanded confines of a book cover, I hope to be alerted to its publication.

Thank you for sharing this. It's the best piece I can recall ever reading on this board, or near anywhere else. Going to send the link to others.

[nightdriver]

"If you undertake to remove Americanism from its native biblical soil, you had better connect it to some other energy source potent enough to keep its principles alive and blooming."

Aye-men, Bro!

This is the only reason that the effort to establish a democracy in the moslem world may fail. Islam is no substitute for biblical faith.

[walden]

Splendid piece, thanks for posting it!

[roses of sharon]

Good read for today!

[TASMANIANRED]

This is a good essay.