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He also deemed it arrogant, as do I, for any nation on earth to believe God deals with it as He did ancient Israel.

Well, the Bible doesn't teach that. The Gospel was through the Person of our Lord Jesus, brought into this world to the Jew first and then the Gentile.

History and sovereignty separated the track of the Gentile world from the track of the Jew back when the Jew formally rejected Him (Christ) 2,000 years ago. I personally believe one can date that separation to the one day that on 'The Feast of the Passover,' they stood in front of Pilate's expansive veranda there in Jerusalem and as one, made the following statement (verse 25).
Matthew 27:23-25 (KJV)
23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. (You seemed fuzzy on that one.)

However, the two historical lines will once again merge at the time of the end. And without getting into a lot of prophesy by way of substantiation, those with their eyes open can see evidence of that fact all around. In any case, though the nation Israel is without question God's chosen people, He sent His Son to earth to die for all who would accept Him as Savior.

To deny our own blessed American heritage is immensely delusional. God has dealt with America in much the same way He did Israel. We however, are only a bit over 230 years in existence, He hasn't had the physical time to manifest Himself much more dramatically than He has. And then there is the fact that God does not deal with man in the same way He did before Christ came and lived among men. All men are led by God through their own consciences, and since He has revealed Himself clearly through His Creation, Romans 1:20 (KJV)
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Men, all men, are without excuse.

Roger Williams wanted an America that God could bless and protect in the same way He did Israel. And to a very large degree, Roger Williams got his wish.


Here is how Katharine Lee Bates would put it:

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern impassion’d stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!
America! America! May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev’ry gain divine!

O Beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam,
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

YOU GO ROGER!!!!