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
