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Reagan's Rhetoric About the City on a Hill Is an Attempt to Sacralize America
In the Protestant tradition with our individualism and kind of a scripture, we're going to end up with lots of different possibilities. And then you have within the Catholic tradition, and within the Protestant tradition, these prophetic voices offering a different interpretation. So clearly this issue is not a Protestant issue in terms of the Spanish conquistadors, right? No, not at all. It's a Catholic sort of thing as well. The city on the Reagan adding the adjective shining city on the hill is an attempt to sacralize a project, to sanctify it, to give it the premature of God. In doing so, it secures it from critique.
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