While I cringe at the heavy doses of American exceptionalism (often in the most cheesy forms) within American religious culture, maybe there is something valuable in viewing American and Christianity as being intertwined.
If God is an American…should we be a afraid of God? I do not think that we should fear God. “God-fearing” is a concept I have never connected with. However, the American God that we sometimes create is something that we should fear.
Luckily, the American God is not God. God is not an ideological construct.
Your thoughts? Oh, Happy Independence Day!
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