In the history of our great nation the Church has often romanticized and sanitized the narrative of our country’s founding, making it seem as though our beginning was one of a homogenous and harmonious process involving mostly Christians, resulting in a “Christian” nation; often ignoring factious elements of early America and schisms that even “infected” the periods of both Great Awakenings. — The reality is that what led our forefather’s to move from loyal subjects, to dissenting objectors, to active revolutionaries — resulting in the birth of the. “American experiment”, as it has been called — was far more complex and messy than we often admit.
