New "Mission" of RPF
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@heyman no you're right… America was founded by cults and utopianisms.
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yes, 1000%. Harold Bloom has written about America as a land of "gnostic" Christianity different from Europe, and also discussed utopianism. This is true since the founding - (Freemasons) Jews, Protestants, Mormons, Catholics (Mary-Land a Catholic "refuge"), Voodoo / Santeria, other folk religions, Muslims, and every other belief under the sun. Many utopian colonies were settled 18th-19th century by: Mennonite, Shaker, Quaker, Jehovah's Witness, French Catholics, Christian Science, Methodist, Pentecostalism, Dispensationalism etc.
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@Corngold solid comment. But the irony of their conspiracy theorisms of America, is that catholicism was banned/ostracized from much of society — a continuation of the liberal anglo-protestant religious war with catholicism
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While some of what is being accused of America may be accurate for some groups and persons, at specific times in her history, at least one highly respected, English Catholic had this to say about America:
"America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature."
"The American Declaration of Independence is in its elements a very Catholic document. Almost alone among the plans of modern institutions, it bases all government on the right of men to justice, and all rights of men on the authority of God. "
— G.K. Chesterton
