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Originally Posted by Nell
The Founding Fathers weren't perfect,
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Hey sis Nell, you are right. the founding fathers weren't perfect. In fact, they weren't even close to the type of Christians today, that are seeking to revise founding history, to make it seem like the founders were evangelicals. They weren't. If these revisionist evangelicals today were back there with the founding fathers they would have been preaching sermons against those founding fathers for not even being Christian.
But I see a common arrogance between these revisionist evangelical Christians today and the Christians that came here from Europe ; those spouting "manifest destiny," those that wrote home claiming they were here "taking the promise land," those that Ben Franklin remarked about when he said, "I hate these Christians going around with a Bible in one hand, and an ax in the other, to scalp Indians with."
This effort to paint the founders as Evangelicals is hubris. This effort to claim America was found by God is hubris.
God did not make a covenant with the founders like with Abraham. That did not happen.
The founding of America was a very human effort. And it was nasty, like Israel was ("thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth" Deut 20:16). I don't even see a smidgen of Christ in it. The Christians came here and committed genocide against the first nation peoples. They did not love their neighbors.
America was founded by God. What a joke. It's Christian arrogance, not humility, that's making this claim ... the same arrogance that was scalping Indians to steal their land. There was nothing Christian about it. It was all tooooo human.