چکیده:
This article seeks to find the origin of the “mission of America”، which lies at the root of the nation’s global strategy، in a feature of Puritanism and its eschatology. At the same time، this article considers elements found in America’s global strategy that hinder co-existence and how to overcome them. Global strategy pursued by the Bush administration after 9/11، to the point of arrogance، was not based just on practical diplomatic decisions to pursue national interests. What lay behind these decisions were America’s sense of mission، an awareness that is ideological as well as religious. If we look at the state of religion in America today، it is hard to see prominent acts of criticism against the global strategy of the current administration from transcendental، self-critical American awareness. However، this consciousness has not disappeared from the American religious tradition. What is needed is an awareness once again that another religious tradition exists، and to assist this tradition from a position of empathy.
خلاصه ماشینی:
These reasons can be said to be sharp criticism of George W Bush and the neoconservatives’ "globalism of ideas," which sees the American ideology of freedom and democracy as a universal ideology and seeks to expand it in the Middle East and the rest of the world to make America safe.
As stated above, because America could not unite itself with a "common past" of history, tradition, and ethnicity, it sought to unite itself with a "common future," ideas and ideals that should be realized by the founding cause of the nation.
When President Bush used biblical language to state that "freedom and democracy," the core concepts of the Enlightenment, were the cause of the "war against terror", this was because about 90 percent of the American people accept the "God of the Bible" 11-12).
America was not the only nation that sought to realize the central tenets of the Enlightenment, fundamental human rights (freedom, equality, and the pursuit of happiness), as its founding cause.
To be sure, they were subjected to religious oppression, but they migrated to America not to seek "separation of church and state," but to create society (nation) based on Puritanism as the state religion, which they were not able to do in England.
For New England to claim independence from England and form the United States of America, its people needed a shift in identity from "English" to "American.