Is the USA fundamentally Christian? A misleading narrative

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Today, the prevailing image is that the United States is a fundamentally Christian country. Its structures must “return to their Christian roots,” but these never existed. A confusing narrative that drives people directly into the clutches of the Roman Catholic Church.

Is the USA on a Christian Foundation?

The United States of America is fundamentally a Christian nation, and this must be restored. A “Faith Authority” established by US President Donald Trump is intended to end discrimination against Christianity and restore the Christian faith represented by the state to its current form. This narrative is prevalent in the extremely “religious” politics of Donald Trump and his large fan base of deeply nationalistic believers who call themselves evangelical Christians.

The suggested tenor is that the United States was originally built on Christian foundations. A portrayal that couldn’t be more false. The United States, and especially its Constitution, were by no means founded on Christian values ​​or even principles. This “non-Christianity” was even explicitly emphasized by the United States’ founding fathers.

Residents Christian – Government neutral

Indeed, the United States was Christian immediately after its founding in 1776. Not in its form of government, but simply due to the very high proportion of Christians from various denominations. Predominantly Evangelical Lutheran, consisting of Baptists, Methodists, Calvinists, etc. Only a small minority was Roman Catholic. This is in the nature of things, because the first wave of immigration in the first half of the 17th century consisted predominantly of Protestant refugees from old Europe. They were fleeing the pool of blood of the Roman Church’s never-ending tyranny against everything and everyone who didn’t submit to it.

However, the Church of Rome was already actively present in the United States at the time of its founding. Its military spearhead, the Jesuit order, founded the state of Maryland on July 4, 1776, thus establishing Rome’s first permanent outpost in the middle of the United States. Today, Maryland is home not only to the capital, Washington, D.C., but also to Georgetown University, the “intellectual elite’s forge,” an indoctrination institution steeped in Jesuit philosophy.

Explicit Neutrality of the USA

The US Constitution expressed absolute neutrality. No oppression, but also no preference for any particular religion. Freedom of religion was the motto. The word “God” appears nowhere in the Constitution. This non-Christian foundation of the USA is confirmed by various letters and declarations of the early statesmen.

Treaty of Tripoli

Due to trade routes that had come into conflict with Muslims, President John Adams was compelled to enter into a treaty that highlighted non-Christianity in the United States. Article 11 of the “Treaty of Tripoli,” dated June 10, 1797, states: (Source):

“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religious or tranquility of Musselmen, and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.“

Benjamin Franklin, 1780

In a letter to Richard Price, dated October 9, 1780, Benjamin Franklin stated that the state should stay out of the affairs of churches or religions for good reason (Source).

“If Christian Preachers had continued to teach as Christ & his Apostles did, without Salaries, and as the Quakers now do, I imagine Tests would never have existed: For I think they were invented not so much to secure Religion itself, as the Emoluments of it.— When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to support, so that its Professors are oblig’d to call for the help of the Civil Power, ’tis a Sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one. But I shall be out of my Depth if I wade any deeper in Theology, & I will not trouble you with Politicks, nor with News which are almost as uncertain:“

Thomas Jefferson, 1782

Thomas Jefferson argued in 1782 in an unintentionally biblical manner in “Notes on Virgina” (Source):

“Reason and experiment have been indulged, and error has fled before them. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature. Introduce the bed of Procrustes, then, and as there is danger that the large men may beat the small, make us all of a size, by lopping the former and stretching the latter.“

The Bible also reports something similar. In Acts 5, the apostles stand before the Sanhedrin and are accused of spreading false teachings. A member of the Sanhedrin, the Pharisee Gamaliel, offered wise counsel (Acts 5:38-39):

“And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.“

James Madison, 1822

The 4th President of the USA, James Madison, wrote a letter to Edward Livingston on July 10, 1822 with the following statement (Source):

“We are teaching the World the great truth, that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by the other lesson, that Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.“

First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.“

A thorn in the side of the Church of Rome

While the United States as a state tolerates Christianity within the framework of religious freedom, the Roman Catholic Church, a major, truly non-Christian institution, “naturally” has a major problem with the exercise of religious freedom, let alone freedom of conscience. Extending its tentacles toward the United States as well, according to Revelation 12:15-16, the Church of Rome intervened incessantly, despite its weakened political position following the French Revolution. In its excessive self-aggrandizement and self-glorification, the Roman Church regained political prominence after 1929, with the founding of Vatican City. This was especially true with the reorganization of the world after World War II, with the United States as a global bulwark of “freedom” against the communist threat.

Roman Catholic tolerance

On December 6, 1953, Pope Pius XII clarified his understanding of tolerance toward other religions and freedom of religious practice in general. His “Tolerance Address,” recorded in “Pius XII on The World Community,” annotated by Edward A. Conway (Jesuit) and Gustave Weigel (Jesuit), edited by Charles Keenan (Jesuit), page 13 (Quelle).

“Thus the two principles are clarified to which recourse must be had in concrete cases for the answer to the serious question concerning the attitude which the jurist, the statesman and the sovereign Catholic state is to adopt in consideration of the community of nations in regard to a formula of religious and moral toleration as described above.

First: that which does not correspond to truth or to the norm of morality [Roman Catholic] objectively has no right to exist, to be spread or to be activated.

Secondly: failure to impede this with civil laws and coercive measures can nevertheless be justified in the interests of a higher and more general good. Before all else the Catholic statesman must judge if this condition is verified in the concrete—this is the “question of fact.

Nothing more than the denial of the right to exist, which does not correspond to Roman Catholic doctrine, and the demand for state intervention to put the Roman Church’s directives into practice through legislation.

A historical reflection

Exactly this image, which was the “norm” in the Dark Ages, is currently developing in the USA. The unification of church and state. While mailing addresses remain separate, this is de facto achieved when state governments enshrine the will of the papacy in law. The second beast (from the earth – Info) will set up an image for the first beast (from the sea), as described in Revelation 13. (Info).

The goal pursued by the papacy is, of course, not being implemented in a clumsy, very transparent, and above all, deterrent way by openly communicating these medieval goals, but rather by propagating the falsehood that the USA must return to its “Christian foundations,” where in truth it has never been. And the majority enthusiastically embraces this lie. The trio of dragon, beast (from the sea), and false prophet, in their long-concluded formation, is currently in the process of erecting the final “abomination of desolation.”

The second siege in sight

The historical precedent, the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD (Matthew 24, Luke 21), was accompanied by a double siege. The first siege by the Roman army was the warning signal described by Jesus Christ and the call to flee. The first siege ended unexpectedly, and the army withdrew. The second siege, however, three and a half years later, was the beginning of destruction. Anyone still in Jerusalem had a serious problem.

The first siege occurred under Pope Leo XIII, Pontiff between 1878 and 1903. In 1888, a Sunday law, the so-called Blue Laws, was passed in the USA by a whisker. It was ultimately defeated. With Leo XIV, the second siege now seems to be underway. After all, the new Pontiff himself declared his intention to follow in the footsteps of his namesake.

The Roman banners are already visible on the horizon. It is time to prepare for turbulent circumstances and, above all, to give serious attention to the calls of the threefold message described in Revelation 14. (Info).

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