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Posted on 06/23/2026 5:40:05 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
More than two decades ago, in 2004, Harvard professor Samuel Huntington warned in his book “Who Are We?” that America was facing a crisis of identity. He argued that a nation cannot remain united without a common culture, a common history, and a common understanding of itself. Remove those foundations, and a society inevitably fragments into competing tribes, interests, and identities.
Huntington pointed to the Anglo-Protestant Creed as the core of America’s unifying identity. He argued that America’s political institutions and civic ideals did not arise in a vacuum but were rooted in a culture shaped by Protestant Christianity. If Huntington identified the foundation of America’s shared identity, educator E.D. Hirsch explained how that identity was transmitted: through a common biblical literacy that provided Americans with a shared vocabulary, history, and moral framework. Without that shared knowledge, the cultural foundations of national identity inevitably begin to erode.
The Founding Fathers were immersed in biblical imagery. Benjamin Franklin famously proposed a national seal depicting Moses at the Red Sea. The Israelites’ exodus taught lessons about liberty, tyranny, divine providence, and national purpose.
The Bible shaped how Americans understood freedom, law, covenant, human dignity, and self-government. Even those who were not orthodox Christians were influenced by the biblical worldview that permeated colonial America.
But what happens when that biblical literacy disappears?
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“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”—John Adams
You’re looking live at biblical illiteracy.
When many turn against God....
Line in movie carved into wood: Finit Hic Deo (God Ends Here).
The Nun. Based on the real people getting help in the Conjuring series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzD9zGcUNrw
Oakland.
Sad but true.
Along with New York City, Chicongo, Los Angeles, San Fransicko, Denver and last but not least, Minneapolidishu.
Third World s-hole.
If you want to see the answer, look at a video of a carnival cruise
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