I’m so very surprised that governments do evil and corrupt things, wow what a revelation..

By golly next thing you know y’all be saying that even folks in the Church have done evil and corrupt things too. I’m not sure my little ol’ pea pickin’ heart can rightly stand that. Oh my I think I’m havin’ a case of the vapors. Fiddle-dee-dee.

Sheesh!

Even if dear ‘ole USA were the best of the worst as you proclaim, the lesser of evil is still evil.
The USA, and its leaders in particular, are as fallen as any of humanity, and not nearly as saintly as you would have them be.

That in and of itself is cause to exercise caution about any such addictive jingoist notions as might subliminally lurk beneath the shallow waters of your claim.

If anything, such claim exposes the Calvinistic bent in which American “culture” and its belief system is awash, a religion which no doubt even God wouldn’t be sorry to see evaporate from American shores.

The rock on which the Church is built by Christ is named faith, not Plymouth.

Aside from that, you’ve merely made an opinionated assertion, a belief, that’s not founded on historical fact.
Anyone who’s read The American background section of The Ideological Management Industry and other well documented research by Alex Carey might beg to differ with your religious opinion.
Not to mention viewers of filmography of Adam Curtis, Scott Noble, and John Pilger, or the well researched works of Anthony Sutton.

There are many other sources of historical facts, too many to cite here that do not support your claim to fame, but which do illustrate American infamy, an infamy that is pointless to counterproductively compare by “degree” with the infamy of any other nation.

The American background in The Ideological Management Industry alone documents the propaganda that has spread corruption of democracy from America to UK and Australia and around the globe.
It’s the same propaganda that’s at the heart of America’s belief system.

Not to mention the bloodshed documented in “America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq“.

Americans, much less the US government, have not even begun to “own up” to any of that.
Without such repentance, the US nation, like the Roman Empire, is collapsing primarily from decadence within, not from terrorist threat from without (and by primarily collapsing from decadence within I do not especially mean abortion or homosexuality, but the will to corrupt democracy at home and abroad with propaganda, and to cause bloodshed around the globe).

Those who want to put the nation on the right “moral” track, can only do so by putting their own personal house in order.

Otherwise, as this document illustrates, such efforts are just a bunch of gnosticism under pretense of Orthodoxy, no differently than the protestant evangelism of Russia is gnosticism under pretense of Christianity.
As the document puts forth, to be looking outside, instead of within, for the perfect state of governance is a sure sign of gnostic search for chiliastic utopia.

I won’t repeat my comment made at The Republic is Finished and the America We Knew is Gone
(Search page for “Dove Weed”, second entry on page)

But suffice to say, the American thinker is monomaniacal and not a complete thinker like the Apostle of Common Sense, G.K. Chesterton.

Focus on the passing of the Republic and bemoaning the fact is a waste of time for Christians.
Early Christians thrived without a “Republic” under their control, proving that such is not essential to Real Christianity.
That Americans “think” otherwise only betrays the Calvinistic bent that infects American culture by way of Plymouth Rock.
Puritanism is not the “rock” on which Christ said he would build the Church.
Now that America is returning to paganism (albeit in a post modern form that isn’t really), Christians will have to Get Real in a catacomb way.
No doubt, that will send the tares thrashing.

Very true. Our nation’s history is riddled with bloodshed, racism and all sorts of atrocities. I never understood why people look back upon our nation’s early days as if some moral utopia existed. Even the “halcyon” days of the 1950s were an embarrassment (unless you consider forced segregation of the races to be moral).

Well said, sir. In this age of spiritual ennervation, may God grant us the courage to live up to those responsibilities.

From WW II until now we’ve been gradually discarding our cultural Christianity.

That is pretty much a done deal. Will the next phase we persecution of people’s of faith or will the faithful deepen our faith sufficiently to revitalize our country?

Whatever the answer, the personal responsibility is the same.

I wholeheartedly agree with you.