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@Peoples_Pundit...Our founders were not Christian Zionists as we understand that term today. It's a modern movement. Zionism did first pop up in 16th Century Reformation and ofc that influenced some congregationalists, but it was not more than a fringe idea in theology let alone a dominant public policy. Puritan minister John Cotton preached the "land of promise" to Puritan voyagers ...Franklin, Jefferson and Adams debated a seal for the United States. Franklin wanted an image from the Exodus made anew for the American Revolution.


Rich Baris The People's Pundit
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The reaction to this episode has been truly fantastic, but critics have been downright kinda funny. Our founders were not Christian Zionists as we understand that term today. It's a modern movement. Zionism did first pop up in 16th Century Reformation and ofc that influenced some congregationalists, but it was not more than a fringe idea in theology let alone a dominant public policy. Puritan minister John Cotton preached the "land of promise" to Puritan voyagers aboard the Arbella as they were about to set sail from Southampton in 1630. "Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more." That's because they understood Christ's definition of Israel as the Body of Christ defined by faith not by blood, as is outlined in Ephesians 2:14–18 and other New Testament Scripture. Read primary sources and you'll repeatedly see our founders reference the creation of a New Israel in the New World, one in which they could show God what it looked like for Man to live and govern themselves by the laws of Nature and Nature's God. Puritans were definitely steeped in End Times Scripture. But they also founded communal settlements before they nearly starved. That didn't make them ideological Communists. They had no such views of helping anyone return to the Holy Land or to defend them to fulfill prophecy. They were far more concerned with feeding themselves. Further, they would've thought it arrogant to somehow believe we could FORCE prophecy with political policy. These were people who lived by the Protestant Ethic, shying away from such pride and arrogance. Following the Continental Congress, Franklin, Jefferson and Adams debated a seal for the United States. Franklin wanted an image from the Exodus made anew for the American Revolution. Jefferson further suggested they be made as "a representation of the children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night." To America. Nowhere else. Believe what you will, and that's fine. Just don't twist history or desecrate the memory of others to support those beliefs.
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