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“Tribes and Heroes, Nations and Messiahs”
Your religion and my religion was used to justify Manifest Destiny. One of it’s earliest manifestations was in good old UCC- Congregationalism in Massachusetts. Here I’ll quote from the minutes of an actual town meeting in 1648, in an undisclosed location in Massachusetts: [in Norman Jackson,. 52]
1. The earth is the Lord’s, and the followers thereof. Voted
2. The Lord may give the earth or any part of it to his chosen people. Voted
3. We are his chosen people. Voted
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