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A Pilgrim view by Gavin Finley MD endtimepilgrim.org --- American fundamentalists are a vibrant company of Christian believers. They also happen to be the most politically active church members this world has ever seen. Why is this so? And is this just a recent phenomenon? As we trace the history of American fundamentalist Biblical Christians we soon realize that this inclination towards political and social action based on Biblical Christian faith is not a new phenomenon at all. It is a pattern of behavior that goes back at least 400 years. In fact the so-called 'Religious Right' can be spiritually discerned and traced back through history. They can be seen as an uninterrupted stream of people going all the way back to the Anglo-American Puritans. The fact is, the Puritans were the forerunners of today's Kingdom?Dominion/Reconstructionist teaching. The Puritans believed that they were carrying to America true Christianity as decreed by God, especially as written in the Old Testament. They believed too that they were on a divine mission to America, a place specially appointed by God to be the "New Israel," a theocratic "city upon a hill." The Puritans viewed themselves as God's special people, replacing national Israel. Nowhere do the dangers of this assumption become more clear than in the Puritans' treatment of the native Americans. Since the Puritans considered themselves God's chosen people, they concluded that they had the right to take the land from the heathen Indians. The American Indians were the "new Canaanites" in America's "Promised Land." The fruit of Puritan theology was brutal. They saw their mission as convert these "Canaanites" to Christianity; failing that, it was acceptable to slaughter them in the name of Christ. Know lies when you see it.