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Originally Posted by Sam
We hear lots of references to the United States being a Christian nation. We hear how the Pilgrims drew up the Mayflower Contract and dedicated themselves and their new community in the new world to God. We hear lots of quotes from early leaders about the necessity of God being in our society, our laws, and our educational system. We hear about General Washington's prayers and the prayers of those who created our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. We hear about calls to fasting and prayer by presidents through the years. So many things lead us to think of this as a Christian or a Godly nation. But, what about the doctrine of "Manifest Destiny" where it was openly taught that God had given this land to white Protestants and therefore by His direction, the civilization that existed here was systematically destroyed by genocide and ethnic cleansing? How about the way the Native Americans were treated through the years? Can a nation that developed and grew through the slaughter of people like that be considered a Christian or Godly nation?
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My understanding is that the Native Americans were wicked people. While there is much sympathy for them in the culture today, they murdered each other and were a very brutal people. That doesn't make all that was done to them right, but may be like Saddam Hussein and his evil sons, their cup got full and God used the Europeans to take them out. This does not make the Europeans righteous, God has a history of using one nation to judge another. The Romans taking out the Jews in 70 AD is one example, they were mercilessly persecuting the Jewish Christians, even encouraging and abetting the Romans in pursuing the Jewish believers.
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