Where to begin with such an essay?
He sets America's proper story firmly within an Old Testament tradition of exile and promised land.
The Puritans, rebelling against the corruption of Catholicism as well as the Popish Anglicanism of Baal's Britain, called the New World the New Jerusalem, and their emigration here an Exodus of chosen people from bondage in the land of the Pharoah, England and its Anglican King, and from Catholicism on the continent.
But, the Puritans weren't Jews.
Maybe that's enough for one post. To be continued....
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