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It occurs to me that what you're saying about American belief in a divinely ordained nature doesn't reflect well on Herman Husband either.

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I was thinking about Husband, and about the way Great Awakening preachers saw the role of English- speaking America in the Millennium: those are early seeds of the religious drama in which the US, across the political spectrum, certainly including the left, has so often placed itself. I was saying it makes us weird, not that it doesn't reflect well necessarily.

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