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America's Dark Story of Origin—three themes

Earthfolk realize that our claim that "America" is a Protestant sect described as a Civil Religion and properly identified, in light of how we use the terms, as Secular Christianity or Christian Secularism does not jibe with the academic mainstream nor the culturally popular high school, even collegiate, stories about the origin of "America."

Scholars have mainly focused on the Light to the world that "America" became (and for many still remains). They tell the American story of origins as one of historical exceptionalism—they claim that the creative imagining of “America” was specially blessed by the Abrahamic Lone Male god, and they described what “happened in Philadelphia” in terms approaching rapturous. For them the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are special and extraordinary documents that are emotionally revered with the same fervor given to sacred scriptures.

As often mentioned by us, the Abrahamic tradition does not recognize its own Dark Story of Origin. It explains evil and sin by casting blame.

As a divinity, the Lone Male god does not accept responsibility for nor own his dark side. The abusive rage of their god as He expels them from paradise is explained as caused by human action (sin, in time, an Original Sin)—God blames Adam, and Adam blames Eve for listening to the Serpent.

There is no divine Dark Side. The Lone Male god is all Good, Benevolent, Just, etc. "Why do bad things happen to good people?"—for example, is always explained by referencing their god's mysterious ways and the unknowable, but revealed, divine plan of Providence. Simply, God is good, you are bad—you'll learn all about it after you leave the Earth.

With this perspective, it is not shocking to discern that the Abrahamic Christian Secularist creatively imagined "America" without an articulated Dark Story of Origin. But there definitely is one!

Continue—Dark Story

 

 

 

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