Americans came to be a people not because we come from European values but because we were fleeing European values.
At least the Americans that originated from England declared that as reason for leaving England. Those people left England looking for religious freedom. They planted the seeds for the freedom we still enjoy today.
The following Document is the actual basis of our Great Constitution which was written 166 years later.
The Mayflower compact.
"In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, e&. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia; do by these presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the General good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James of England, France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620."
"There followed the signatures of 41 of the 102 passengers, 37 of whom were Separatists fleeing religious persecution in Europe. This compact established the first basis in the new world for written laws. Half of the colony failed to survive the first winter, but the remainder lived on and prospered."
And prosper they did indeed.
In fact America epitomizes all that is good and decent in humanity. America and the American way are man's best and brightest hope for a just future for any person on earth.
There is no better form of government.
This fact manifests itself in the pride you euros mock and do not comprehend.
demaw1 is correct in stating that we are currently involved in a war for our culture. Perhaps even a civil war, hopefully to be fought in the courts.
The liberals in America are literally hell bent in undoing 376 years of the most successful experiment in human liberty in all of mankind's history.
Without God there can be no America, Without America there is still God.
Liberal friends consider our history. If you cannot see a direct correlation with your actions in removing and prohibiting all mention of the Almighty from our public institutions in the past 50 years to our current social problems then you are truly blind.
The Ten Commandments which are the pardigm for our legal and judicial system are systematically being removed from schools and court houses.
We want to save whales, owls, termites and crabs but the mother's womb is unsafest place for a baby to be.
We can mention any god in schools. I've read that islam is being taught in California's public schools but the mention of Jesus' name is cause for suspension.
We have shameless groups of homosexuals who march throughout our streets celebrating their folly and expect us to not only accept their lifestyle choice but to embrace it as normal.
Yes indeed we are in a fight and IMHO a historically important one.
The separation of Church and State does not, did not ever mean the separation of God from our national identity. It meant that the government could not institute a National religion such as the Church of England as an example. I pray that God does not abandon us. If he were to we need only look at the fossil record around the southern shore of the dead sea in the Holy Land to find evidence of what could happen.
