1) That a "nation" can be legitimately and realistically formed from the top, down, of such disparate peoples representing radically different cultures, histories, traditions, and religions." We originally had thirteen sovereign nations who voluntarily joined in a confederacy for mutual benefit (state = nation), without sacrificing that ultimate sovereignty. That ended in 1865, when we effectively became an empire for the benefit of the politically connected corporacrats.
2) That some theft is justified under God if it is accomplished via taxation and zoning laws and ordinances, eminent domain, etc., by people democratically elected wearing suits and/or black judicial robes.
3) "'Progress'" is always good, and justifies the confiscation of private property for 'the public good'." See Item #2. Also, we fail to consider a fuller meaning of progress, particularly as God sees it, even as a supposedly Christian nation!
4) Related to Items 2 and 3, "The 'bottom line' is the ultimate good, i.e. financial profits." It is the only aspect of economy we recognize.
5) " America has always championed a free market." Never mind the Fed, corporate welfare at all levels of government (Think! Did you and your local government offer tax breaks to companies and corporations to set up shop in your town or county?). Never mind the tariffs back in the 19th c. and their descendants, the financial bail-outs we saw in 2008-9! We-the-people are more of a colony for the profit of the elites now, than we ever were under King George and Parliament!
6) "Democrats are evil, while, if the Republican Party would just get back to its roots and stop with the RINOs, we'd be better off!" Yes, the Democrat Party gave itself over to evil when it abandoned itself to the left forty or fifty years ago, but the GOP was born as a means to enrich the corporacratic interests of the day (the 1850s). The party's apparatus, many in its grassroots base notwithstanding, is still all about the maintenance of power and profits through government, having successfully redefined "conservatism" to fit into this paradigm. It'll mouth seemingly Constitutional and Jeffersonian ideas, but its "constitutionalism" is hardly better than the Democrat Party's leftist disregard for the original intent and founding principles.
7) Ceding our responsibilities to the government is okay (e.g. education, welfare, social security, health care, etc.). But YOUR socialism (i.e. entitlement) is evil, while MINE is fine! We've all tolerated our own hypocrisy in this area for too long, folks!
And, again, 54 million babies MURDERED! Look, those barbarians over in Iraq who murder by beheading, etc. deserve bullets to the brain! However, we do it in such a sanitized way, dressed in, again, legislators' and judges' suits and black robes, mouthing legalisms, etc., while we kill our own children; do you and I think God is any less sickened at this? Further, who are we to extend our ideas of "good" to other nations via our military and neocon foreign relations?
I hope and pray for "America's" fall, the faster the better! As far as I am concerned, what we have now is no longer America anyway! That republic was dealt a mortal blow long ago and has been slowly dying since then!
We're done! To those of us who remain, let us repent and seek to reform ourselves under God's hand into something that is honouring to Him once again!