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America Founded as a
Protestant Society
“America was
founded as a Protestant society, and
for two hundred years almost all
Americans were Protestant…By
2000, about 60 percent of Americans
were Protestants. Protestant beliefs,
values, and assumptions, however, had
been the core element, along with the
English language, of America’
settler culture, and that culture
continued to pervade and shape
American life, society, and thought
as the proportion of Protestants
declined…
“In America, the
Reformation created a new society.
Unique among countries, America is
the child of that Reformation.
Without it, there would be no
America, as we have known it. The
origins of America, another scholar
has argued, ‘are to be found in
the English Puritan Revolution. That
revolution is, in fact, the single
most important formative event of
American political history.’ In
America, the nineteenth-century
European visitor Philip Schaff
observed, ‘everything had a
Protestant beginning….
“…America
was born Protestant and did not have
to become so….
The Errand In the
Wilderness
“…Religious
intensity was undoubtedly greatest
among the Puritans, especially in
Massachusetts. They took the lead in
defining their settlement based on
‘a Covenant with God’ to
create ‘a city on a hill’
as a model for the world, and people
of other Protestant faiths soon also
came to see themselves and America in
a similar way. In the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, Americans
defined their mission in the New
World in biblical terms. They were a
‘chosen people,’ on an
‘errand in the wilderness,’
creating ‘the new Israel’
or the ‘new Jerusalem’ in
what was clearly ‘the promised
land.’ America was the site of a
‘new Heaven and a new earth, the
home of justice,’ God’s
country. The settlement of America
was vested, as Sacvan Bercovitch put
it, ‘with all the emotional,
spiritual, and intellectual appeal of
a religious quest.’ This
sense of holy mission was easily
expanded into millenarian themes of
America as ‘the redeemer
nation’ and ‘the visionary
republic.’
“The Fierce
Spirit of Liberty” –
“The Protestantism of the
Protestant Religion”
“American
Protestantism differs from European
Protestantism, particularly those
denominations, Anglican or Lutheran,
that have involved established
churches. Edmund Burke, who
contrasted the fear, awe, duty, noted
this difference and reverence
Englishmen felt toward political and
religious authorities with the
‘fierce spirit of liberty’
among Americans. This spirit, he
argued, was rooted in the
distinctively American brand of
Protestantism. The American ‘are
Protestants, and of that kind which
is the most averse to all implicit
submission of mind and opinion. All
Protestantism, even the most cold and
passive, is a sort of dissent.
However the religion most prevalent
in our northern colonies is a
refinement on the principle of
resistance: it is the dissidence of
dissent, and Protestantism of the
Protestant religion.’”
–Burke, quoted in Huntington,
64.
The Entire Destiny of
America Shaped by the Puritans
“This dissidence
was manifest from the first with the
settlements of the Pilgrims and the
Puritans in New England. The Puritan
message, style, and assumptions, if
not doctrines, spread throughout the
colonies and became absorbed into the
beliefs and outlooks of other
Protestant groups. In some measure,
as Tocqueville said, ‘the entire
destiny of America’ was shaped
by the Puritans. The ‘religious
zeal and the religious
conscience’ of New England,
James Bryce agreed, in ‘large
measure passed into the whole
nation.’
“Qualified,
modified, diffused, the Puritan
legacy became the American essence.
While ‘England had a Puritan
Revolution without creating a Puritan
society, America created a Puritan
society without enduring a Puritan
revolution.’ The permeation of
Puritan ideas and styles among the
American colonies was in some measure
a result of the distinctive
characteristics of the East Anglican
settlers. Unlike the settlers in the
three other waves of English
settlement identified by David
Hackett Fischer, the East Anglicans
were predominately urban artisans
rather than farmers and came
overwhelmingly in family groups.
Virtually all were literate. Many had
attended Cambridge. They were also
devoutly religious and committed to
spreading the word of God. Their
ideas, values, and culture diffused
throughout the new land, especially
in the ‘greater New
England’ of the Middle West, and
decisively shaped the way of life and
political development of the new
nation.
Dissidence of Dissent
“The dissidence
of American Protestantism, manifested
first in Puritanism, and
congregationalism, reappeared in
subsequent centuries in Baptist,
Methodist, Pietist, fundamentalist,
evangelical, Pentecostal, and other
types of Protestantism. These
movements differed greatly. They
were, however, generally committed to
an emphasis on the individual’s
direct relationship to God, the
supremacy of the Bible as the sole
source of God’s word, salvation
through faith and for many the
transforming experience of being
‘born again,’ personal
responsibility to proselytize and
bear witness, and democratic and
participatory church organization.
Beginning in the eighteenth century,
American Protestantism became
increasingly populist and less
hierarchical and increasingly
emotional and less intellectual.
Doctrine gave way to passion. Sects
and movements multiplied constantly,
the dissenting sects of one
generation then being challenged by
the new dissidents of the next
generation. ‘Dissidence of
dissent’ describes the history
as well as the character of American
Protestantism.”
–Huntington, 65.
Seventh-day Adventism
a Full Return to the Word of God
And true Seventh-day
Adventism marked a full return to the
Scriptures-the capstone of the
Protestant Reformation.
Protestantism Defines
the American Creed
Protestantism created
an identity for America that is
sometimes called the American Creed.
“Almost all the central ideas of
the Creed have their origins in
dissenting Protestantism. The
Protestant emphasis on the individual
conscience and the responsibility of
individuals to learn God’s
truths directly from the Bible
promoted American commitment to
individualism, equality, and the
rights of freedom and opinion.
Protestantism stressed the work ethic
and the responsibility of the
individual for his own success or
failure in life. With its
congregational forms of church
organization, Protestantism fostered
opposition to hierarchy and the
assumption that similar democratic
forms should be employed in
government.” –Huntington,
68.
These are the two
horns, or power, of Protestantism and
Republicanism of Revelation 13:11.
Huntington writes,
“American national identity
peaked politically with the rallying
of Americans to their country and its
cause in World War II…Americans
were one nation of individuals with
equal rights, who shared a primarily
Anglo-Protestant core culture, and
were dedicated to the
liberal-democratic principles of the
American Creed…”
–Huntington, 141, 142.
Deconstructionists,
Multiculturalism, Gramsci, Rome, and
The Love of Slavery
“Jesus
answered them, Verily, verily, I say
unto you, Whosoever
committeth sin is the servant of
sin…If the Son therefore shall
make you free, ye shall be free
indeed.” John 8:
34, 36.
“Antonio
Gramsci argued that Communist’s
should require a nation’s
cultural institutions and establish a
‘cultural hegemony’ so that
Communist mastery over the
consciousness of the people
could be attainted. Then, people
could be made to accept their own
servitude without even knowing that
they are enslaved.”
–The New American, October 23,
2000.
“The entire
West has given birth at last to the
child of Gramsci’s ghost: a
completely secularized society. And
in what is still called ‘the
spirit of Vatican II,’ John
Paul’s worldwide Roman
Catholic institutional organization
has been both midwife and wet nurse
for that force.” -Malachi
Martin, Keys of This Blood,
268.
“Aldous
Huxley, author of the classic
anti-totalitarian novel Brave New
World, explained that the most
efficient totalitarian system would
be one in which the rulers
would ‘control a population of
slaves who do not have to be coerced,
because they love their servitude.’
In Huxley’s model of the total
state, the population was
controlled through the use of sex,
drugs, vapid entertainment,
government-generated slogans, and
manufactured social fads.
“Russian
anti-Communist Alexander Zinovyev, a
world-renowned author, has described
how the West, particularly
the United States, is descending into
a totalitarian culture of the sort
predicted by Huxley.”
-William Norman Grigg, New
American, October., 2000.
Protestantism broke
free from the servitude of the soul
to the tyranny of Rome in the
Reformation through the power of
Christ in His Word and Justification.
Now, through that master weapon of
the Jesuits, communism, this time
Gramscian cultural communism, the
Hegelian dialectic has been used to
bring Protestantism into apostasy and
servitude once again.
Powerful Movements
in the 1960s Began to Challenge the
Protestant Substance of America
“In the 1960s
powerful movements began to challenge
the salience, the substance, and the
desirability of this concept of
America. America for them was not a
national community of individuals
sharing a common culture, history,
and creed but a conglomerate of
different races, ethnicities, and sub
national cultures, in which
individuals were identified by their
group membership, not common
nationality…
Deconstructionists
‘The
deconstructionists promoted programs
to enhance the status and influence
of sub national racial, ethnic, and
cultural groups.”
–Huntington, 141, 142.
Deconstructionism Due
to Marxism
Of course,
deconstructionism was due to Marxism
of class warfare-the Marxism
introduced into America in the Hippie
Movement after the Jesuit General
Congregation 31 by Jesuit priests who
had studied deeply the
Marxist/Pantheistic writings of the
Jesuit Pierre Teihard de Chardin in
their seminaries since the 1950s, and
now more determined to reshape the
entire world with their message.
Deconstructionists
Dismantle America’s Protestant
Core With “Diversity”
The deconstructionists
“urged supplementing or
substituting for national history the
history of sub national groups. They
downgraded the centrality of English
in American life and pushed bilingual
education and linguistic diversity.
They advocated legal recognition of
group rights and racial preferences
over the individual rights central to
the American Creed. They justified
their actions by theories of
multiculturalism and the idea that
diversity rather than unity or
community should be America’s
overriding value. The combined effect
of these efforts was to promote the
deconstruction of the American
identity that had been gradually
created over three centuries and the
ascendance of sub national
identities.
The Battle Over
America’s Identity
“The
resulting controversies over racial
preferences, bilingualism,
multiculturalism, immigration,
assimilation, national history
standards, English as the official
language, ‘Euro centrism,’
were in effect all battles in a
single war over the nature of
American national identity…. Of
central importance in this
deconstruction coalition were
government officials, particularly
bureaucrats, judges, and
educators.” –Huntington,
142, 143.
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