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How can we make it so American nationalism has a strong anti-Christian component to it?

At least some of the luminaries of the Revolution were Deists--Thomas Paine, who wrote "The Crisis," also wrote The Age of Reason, which is EXTREMELY anti-Christian (and anti-Judaic too). He seemed to view it an insult to the Creator that He be identified with the "tribal" and "violent" deity of the Bible.

Not to mention I was lurking on FreeRepublic a few minutes ago and there was a guy complaining about the Reformed theologian John MacArthur, who takes a very hard-line view of Romans 13 (governments come from God). The guy said that MacArthur said the founding the US was sinful and then said that MacArthur would make a good Jew-killing Lutheran in Nazi Germany.

So how can we make it so Christianity is seen as something that's anti-American and anti-liberty? I'm thinking use by Britain of ministers to keep the people in line using verses about obedience to authority, but that might not be enough to turn the public against Christianity.
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