The USA - the United States of Trump plus Greenland: God's gift to the world and 400 years on from Puritanism founding America.
The land had tens of thousands of years of indigenous tribes of Indians when the 1620 Pilgrim Fathers arrived on Indian soil. The pilgrim Puritans believed in every word of the Bible as being God breathed/inspired and authoritative for all things to do with faith and practice. They were the foundation stone of the modern United States.
Yet, we have seen 400 years of internal killings - first (and continuous for 200 yrs?) of native Indians, then in fighting the Brits to get independence, followed with slaughter among the white Americans themselves over slavery in the 1860s Civil War. I've seen suggested a total figure of more Americans killing each other than the 58,000 Americans dead in SE Asian wars. 58,000, as they killed an unknown number of Communists defending their land - two or three million I've seen suggested.
This is scandalous ecocide, entirely self-inflicted by the beacon of freedom loving democrats in the pursuit of happiness (and slaughter). The Shining City set on a hill as a noble example to all other inferior nations - excellent exceptionalism, no less!
I see America as, possibly, the strongest Bible believing Christian nation with so many places of worship - of all faiths. Yet, for 400 years, perhaps the most violent on earth with endemic domination and conquest over the original Indian population, chattel slavery especially bad in the Bible Belt of the South and, with coercion, force and violence to get their way around the world. With disastrous consequences in Latin America and the Middle East for the last 125 years.
All this, the legacy of the Bible loving and believing every word - Puritans. The very Puritans who executed the only* English ruling monarch in our history - on the 30 January 1649! ASTONISHING!
The ruthless Romans executed the Puritan non-violent Saviour on a cross.
The pious, not so non-violent Puritans executed their King on a scaffold.
EXTRAORDINARY!
How on earth could things have gone so wrong when how to live on earth is so plainly recorded in the Gospels - all about the life and teaching of Jesus of Nazareth. And what a get out to say that all the sin is down to the Fall, my dear Tim, recorded in Genesis. Therefore, you must repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved from eternal damnation.
* Mary, Queen of Scots, "as a foreign anointed queen she had never been an English subject and therefore could not be convicted of treason." Wikipedia
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