Manifest destiny Quote by Steven K. Green

“Because Americans lack a common ethnicity or extensive heritage, our founding myth is more important than it is for most other peoples. Unlike other…

— Steven K. Green

“America had, I believe, a divine founding. Call it American exceptionalism if you like. But that makes America all the more vulnerable to God's…

— Fleming Rutledge

“They believed that if America followed the ways of God, it would become the most blessed, the most prosperous, and the most powerful civilization…

— Jonathan Cahn

“There is no one story that will replace the American dream, but stories like this one—and there are thousands—can inform the myth or myths…

— Carolyn Baker

“A person has to ignore the larger social, economic, political, and religious climate of early North American colonialism to advance the Christian nation myth.”

— David D. Flowers

Christian nation mythologists pump themselves up with narratives of American exceptionalism and Christian domination. But sooner or later even their most devoted followers should…

— Sarah Posner

“In a nation whose great informing myth is that it has no great informing myth, familiarity equaled timelessness”

— David Foster Wallace

The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority and other…

— Daniel L Dreisbach

The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at…

— Jonathan Raban

America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the…

— Ronald Reagan

“In short, when it comes to colonial America, religious persecution—in the sense of persecution both based in religion and aimed at religion—was as American…

— John Corvino

“In other words, America was founded by a nutty religious cult.”

— Kurt Andersen