Christianity Being Scrubbed from the American Story

VERY SAD.

I grew up with non-Christian relatives. But God gives faith to many of us. I am very blessed.

Democracies only last up to around 250 years before things fall apart. We are clearly in the fall apart stage.

After 250 Years, Our American Republic Is Coming Apart

We're tenting tonight on the old camp ground
Give us a song to sing
Our weary hearts a song of home
And friends we love so dear

Many are the hearts that are weary tonight
Praying that the war would cease
Many are the hearts that are looking for the right
To see the dawn of peace

Tenting tonight, tenting tonight, tenting on the old camp ground
Yes, we're tenting tonight, tenting tonight, tenting on the old camp ground.

That's part of a song from the American Civil War. The old camp ground in the song is a reference to the camp meeting grounds that were common then. People would camp together and have week-long revivals, listening to preaching that was often in the open. During the Civil War, they were often used as mustering out points and as camp grounds for troops on both sides.

Through the rest of the verses of Tenting on the Old Camp Ground, the listeners learns that they are camping there after a battle. There's a verse that goes "Some are dead and some are dying, many are in tears." There's a sharp contrast between camping on a site dedicated to the Prince of Peace and the war in general and battle in particular. That's a contrast already lost because camp meetings have fallen out of fashion.

I don't care if someone is a secularist or of they have the idea that somehow Christianity had no impact on the American Revolution and the formation of the United States of America: If you scrub Christianity from the American experience, you leave out what was once a vibrant heart of American existence, one that had a huge impact on the American way of life. It is one thing to forget something because it fell out of fashion; quite another to propagate willful ignorance.

Camp meetings had impact..
during Frontier Days.
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I was at camp meetings..
- years ago.

You're telling me that a Christian publisher was able to cherry pick a selection of book lists that allowed it to form a conclusion that would rile up its audience?

Shocking.