Set Up & Sold Out

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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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