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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus10/15/2016 2:43:02 am PDT

Drumpfskind did not create his marks, in the most cases, but harvested them from the already ripe field of marks:

Theologian Norman Geisler Explains How America Abandoned God, and What It Can Do to Reclaim His Favor

Christian theologian Norman Geisler said on Friday at a major Christian apologetics conference that America has paid a heavy price for abandoning God, such as rising rates of teen suicide, divorce, violent crime, and abortion, but urged Americans to rediscover their Christian roots and get back in God’s favor.

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Charting back America’s history to 1620 with the first pilgrims on the Mayflower, he noted that the first thing the settlers did upon arrival was thank God in their prayers.

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This is pretty standard in fundamentalist circles, but is not the real story of this country.

What they leave off is all the colonization before 1620.

They leave it off because it doesn’t fit their narrative.

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The apologist then pointed to the 1859 publication of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin as the point when America started losing its favor with God, as the questioning of God also led to the questioning of God-given morals.

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Always.

Always.