God’s Own Country?

While Liberals, perhaps, disagree, many Christians entertain the strong belief that the United States of America is ‘God’s Own Country’.

Stated belief is true in the sense that, consistent with prophecy in Revelation 12:15–17, it was departure from, or deportation of Christians from Western Europe to the United States that was succor for persecution of Protestants by the Papal Church, in course of the Reformation that commenced in the 16th Century.

Importantly, if the Papal Church had listened to the admonition of one of its foremost theologians, Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), who had written that matters of faith had to be treated as matters of reasoning and conscience, with outcome practice and beliefs of faith are personal, not institutional, the Papal Church would have eschewed the course of persecution of fellow Christians.

Sometimes religious institutions refuse to listen to their own moral conscience, moral conscience that they claim to celebrate.

In the opportunity to depart for the USA, or in their deportation to the USA, many Protestants found opportunity, not only for worship of God as they best deemed fit, but for building of new economic lives.