John LeBoutillier helps us understand our ancestors:
"One of the key motivators for the early American settlers was their fervent desire to communicate with God directly -- something forbidden by European Christianity in the 17th century. ... America was unique in every way. Yes, vast natural resources and potential great material wealth awaited the settlers. But none of that would have worked without the Guiding Hand of a God who selected a certain type of man and woman to come and become Americans. Today's New Leftists don't want to hear any of this; they are the ones who have ripped the soul out of this country and tried to replace it with Big Government. But if America is to survive -- and if we are to become again a country of happy people -- the American people need to revive their personal relationships with God first. They need to ask God to help them. He will show us the way. He always does."
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I'm not sure God was there guiding the settlers when they declared Manifest Destiny. And the founders weren't as Christian as modern evangelicals would like to believe. A good number of them were deists or atheists. As for the whole "Christian nation" thing, I'm still undecided on exactly how Christian this nation should be.
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