America’s Identity： Christian & European
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Summary
America s historic identity is not a religious pluralism or a multicultural hellhole. America is a Christian, European settlement to the glory of God. America s history is not one of multiculturalism, but one of religious diversity.
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Here are two great American misinterpretations, freedom of religion and American diversity.
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Freedom of religion never meant a religious free-for-all. Our nation was founded by Christians.
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In 1789, the first gathering of Congress included men. 81 of them, all of them, were Christians.
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Freedom of religion meant freedom among Christian denominations. The American settlers had recently
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come from Europe, where Christians were often persecuted by other Christians. Freedom of
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religion meant Baptists didn't have to fear being jailed by Anglicans, and Presbyterians
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didn't have to fear being attacked by Roman Catholics, and Roman Catholics didn't fear
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being taxed by Eastern Orthodoxy. None of the founders ever imagined that freedom of religion
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would be used to protect the rights of anti-Christian religions, satanic temples or
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Hindu shrines or Muslims. Think about this with me. Why would the founders have the protection
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of foreign religions in view when the immigration policy established at that very same congressional
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gathering was limited to free white men of good moral character? Why would they envision Islam
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or Hinduism, when no Hindu, Muslim, or African nation were even allowed to immigrate to America.
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Second, the idea that America has always been diverse is true, but it was a diverse group of
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white Europeans who shared similar ancestry, values, and culture. Among that, they also shared
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the Christian faith. We had people from England and Germany and Scotland and Ireland and Norway.
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Between 1620 and 1965, America was 90% European, and non-European immigration was extremely rare.
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Today, these two ideas have been exploited and reinterpreted to protect things like Sharia
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law or pagan demonic temples, shrines, and import millions of foreigners who do not share
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our culture, hate Christianity, and have no intentions of assimilating to Western values.
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America's historic identity is not a religious pluralism or a multicultural hellhole.
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America is a Christian European settlement to the glory of God.