Even if we admit that America was
created as an Anglo-Christian culture, which it clearly was (see
“America's Lost Sense of Community,” Modern Age 2012), it is far
too late to bring it back for the whole nation, we are now too
divided by religion, language, ethnicity, manners and customs.
Only Federalism written large, as more
or less seen by the Founders, can deal with our non-homogeneity, by
giving power back to the regions, back to the states, protected by a
light federalism from within and without.
I agree with those who say that all great
social institutions are born in religion. It was clearly
Anglo-Christian culture which built Western civilization, including
America, as L. Smith says in his essay, it was religion that provided
the system of symbols through which the culture sustained itself.
But this culture no longer prevails and
the Anglo Americans who largely created it have declined and been
replaced by an immigration policy which brought in other religions,
other ethnicities, or a secular culture (if such a thing can be a
culture) of no religion at all.
I believe that only a federalism which
affirms differences and variety can bring America together without
the eventual secession of different people and states, but more importantly only
a new or revised religion can hold federalism together. the Theoevolutionary Church (TC) is such a religion, believing that a variety of
distinctive people is not only desirable but necessary for the
overall evolution of mankind on earth and out into the cosmos toward
Godhood.
Human beings are capable of cooperative
competition, our differences need not destroy us, and evolutionary
religion can be the bond, affirming federalism, holding us
together as we evolve. The inward God seen in all the great
religions can be the ecumenical bond, as we advance toward outward
Godhood in the cosmos, as affirmed in the Twofold Path. I see no
better civilized way to hold America, or the world, together while advancing in
evolution.
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