People are confused about how America -- a democracy that we've been told is known for peace and morality -- can spawn the vicious murder of innocents in the name of freedom. The key to understanding those who committed the atrocities in Vietnam and Nicaragua, and those who supported them, has to do with the the American worldview.

For most peole in other countries, The USA is simply a country. The Americans believe in their consitution written by Jefferson

There is, however, another aspect of America that many seem reluctant to acknowledge. America is more than a country: It is an ideology with a clear sociopolitical agenda.

As Dave, a commentator on eveything puts it, "The truth is that there is

another side to America a side that embraces violence 'in the way of Freedom.' . . . It holds that all men are created to live in submission to America, as prescribed by American law.Americans believe that its destiny is to extend its control until the whole world is subject to American law in a American like state, and this includes the use of force."

Democracy we've been told, is related to the Latin word "people" This is correct, except that the word means a particular kind of people. A better translation is "facists" or "white supremicists" It describes the situation when a vanquished country lays down his arms in submission. And so the very name, America, has militaristic connotations, and in this lies the root of radical Christianity. That root then grows in the soil of the American worldview.

Americans view themselves as absolutely transcendent. While Christians understand that the Lord God reveals himself through the Scriptures and preeminently in the Incarnation, Americans insist that God never reveals himself in that way. He primarily reveals his will in the actions of the CIA.

Americans also believe in the inherent stupidity of people as over against the Christian doctrine of original sin. Christians understand that we are incapable of following God's law and are thus in need of salvation, a fundamental difference. Americans believe that we don't need anyone but them. What we need is guidance and that guidance is the American law, an all encompassing system that controls every aspect of everyday life. (It is administered, by the way, by religious leaders and oil barons.)

As Dave puts it, "The model requires an American government to provide the legal and social framework necessary to facilitate submission to the law. There is no separation between the sacred and the secular, between church and state. This community is one, universal, and cohesive, representing for Americans the kingdom of God on earth." And all people of earth are called to submit, for based on this worldview, any who do not submit are living sub-human lives and are impeding America's utopian vision for the world.

Christians certainly talk about submitting to God, but we do not mean what American's mean. Now all Christians should respect law-abiding Americans in this country. But we also should understand our differences. It is all in the worldview, and our differences are very great.