Quoting Obuma.
Since the beginning of the industrial age, the world changes ever generation. Nothing would have stopped the land appropriation of North America.
Yeah, this one is pretty bad. Straight out of Howard Zinn.
Nothing like having pothead leftists lecturing about how the United States is bad and not Christian before breakfast.
There always seems to be a misunderstanding of what “founded on Christian principles” means.
If one means that the United States was founded as a Christian “theocracy”, then yes, the author would be correct in say that is untrue.
But, there is no denying that our founding principles state that the grounding of our freedom and the value of human beings are inherently given by God, and that these Truths are “self-evident” - and by this the Founders meant, the God of the Bible, and the teachings found in the Bible.
The problem, and the author is correct on this point, is that we have not always lived up to the principles we espoused. He is also, sadly, correct that decade after decade the horrible treatment of other human beings was excused or ignored by many supposedly “Christian” Americans.
But, having said all that, our principles have guided us to correct our flaws - more than any other nation - even to the point of shedding blood to correct those flaws.
At the time of our nation’s founding, and during our formative years, was there ANY other nation that had “equality” for all and treated all peoples within their borders fairly, without any prejudices?
The answer, of course, is an emphatic “no”.
Our founding principles are Biblical, and therefore they are good and just and, Biblically, are to be applied to all Americans.
Because we haven’t always lived to those principles doesn’t mean we weren’t founded on them.
The Christian Church has not lived up to the New Testament teachings all through Church history either - does that mean it isn’t “Christian”? Obviously that’s absurd.
In the same way, it is absurd to say that the founding principles of the United States are not Christian.
America could have easily been ordained by God but still be the great and terrible nation as God works in strange ways.
It is also easy to see how the catholic Church was ordained by God to spread the Gospel and then have to be chanllenged by the ones who started the protestant Churches.
It is also easy to see both of them becoming harlots if in fact that is what they are,.