Thread by @noone_pj

The American founding was fundamentally a liberal project, grounded in Enlightenment principles that are ultimately incompatible with traditional Christianity and organic nationhood.

The American Experiment was built on Locke’s social contract theory, Rousseau’s general will, and Enlightenment rationalism

- all profoundly anti-traditional frameworks that replaced divine right with consent of the governed and Christian natural law with abstract individual rights.

The Declaration’s “self-evident truths” and Constitution’s mechanistic checks and balances represent the triumph of liberal political theology over centuries of Christian civilization.

This liberal foundation explains why conservative Christians have consistently found themselves on the losing side of America’s cultural evolution.

We’ve been trying to conserve something that was never Christian to begin with - trying to pour new wine into old wineskins.

The founding documents contain the seeds of every progressive victory that followed: from radical individualism undermining community to egalitarian premises justifying social revolution.

When Christians defend “American values,” we’re often defending liberal values in Christian language. The separation of church and state (initially a Protestant accommodation) became the secular public square.

Religious freedom became moral relativism. Free speech became pornography and blasphemy. The Second Amendment alone cannot sustain a Christian civilization when every other pillar supports its dissolution.

The truly anti-American position for Christians isn’t progressive activism - that’s just liberalism following its natural course.

The truly radical stance is rejecting liberalism itself and recognizing that any nation not explicitly founded on Christ and His Church will inevitably decay into the very paganism we see today.

America was never Jerusalem - it was Athens with a Protestant veneer. And that veneer has finally worn through.

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