The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question. I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.
You know, the Brits had a way of—running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
I can hardly believe that any man born in America can possess other than an American heart.
I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.
Tribalism was an urge our Founding Fathers assumed we could overcome. And so it has become our greatest vulnerability.
I certainly think that America's very schizophrenic, there's no question. I think you see and it is as American as apple pie, you see the conflict between the notion of personal freedom as espoused by the founding fathers and the puritan values that were there before, and that that conflict is, is w…
Our country was built on the bedrock belief that government was to be limited and local.
Government can grow only by feeding on the liberty of the ones being governed.
There are two things that, if you removed them, would make the South simply cease to exist: One is food, the other is the Allman Brothers.
All good Southerners are pretty much kinda mad.
What do you call a bee that lives in America? a USB.
What makes us American is our fidelity to a set of ideals.
The point is that everything great and iconic about this country comes when seemingly disparate parts are blended in revelatory ways. That merging simply doesn’t happen in places where people are separated by race and ethnicity and class. And it’s not only what makes American culture so rich, but it…
As I watch millennial men struggle to lift their bags into the overhead bin I am reminded how f'd we are if there's a draft.
American propaganda works so well that we still have people out here thinking it was totally fine and justified that the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japanese civilians, killing well over 100,000 innocent people. It works so well that, even though the United States is the only country t…
Because American culture and American identity arise from the Christian imagination rather than the tactile and auditory traditions, American culture is enthusiastic and apocalyptic rather than settled and stable. It dwells not in the routine of quotidian life but in memory and hope.
There’s something revealing in the fact that European society has birthrates so low. It suggests that Europe lacks a sense of opportunity for a rewarding, challenging, fulfilling life. Emigration is another sign. You can see the stultifying economy on the faces of young people in Europe, many of who…
Damn a girl can't ever hurt you enough.
Our United States of America Has quickly become a global empire Come on, see it now for what it really is Power hungry, nothing much to give Violent, all in the name of freedom