We are discussing the Puritan’s “City Upon a Hill” today in my immigrant America course. How can we not watch this?:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiSyGi7IQvk&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
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Oh, Reagan and his longing for the good old days.
I found much of Greg Boyd's book, The Myth of a Christian Nation, to have many flaws. But I did like this quote:
“Were these God-glorifying years before, during, or after Europeans ‘discovered’ America and carried out the doctrine of ‘manifest destiny’—the belief that God (or, for some, nature) had destined white Christians to conquer the native inhabitants and steal their land? Were the God-glorifying years the ones in which the whites massacred these natives by the millions, broke just about every covenant they ever made with them, and then forced survivors onto isolated reservations? Was the golden age before, during, or after white Christians loaded five to six million Africans on cargo ships to bring them to their newfound country, enslaving the three million or so who actually survived the brutal trip? Was it during the two centuries when Americans acquired remarkable wealth by the sweat and blood of their slaves? Was this the time when we were truly ‘one nation under God,’ the blessed time that so many evangelicals seem to want to take our nation back to?”