A new film was released in
the States in June with the title The American Miracle: Our Nation Is No Accident. There seems to be some truth in the premise;
several events in the 13 colonies’ War for Independence and earlier, as well as
some events much later during the War between the States, are difficult to
explain as anything other than supernatural intervention, such as George
Washington’s escape from volleys of gunfire without injury or helpful weather
changes.
The Holy Trinity does not
allow things to happen haphazardly.
There is undoubtedly then a purpose in the Lord allowing this union of
States in North America to rise up in the world and wield so much power. The key question remains, ‘For what purpose?’
The MAGA crowd would answer
that God Himself created ‘America’ to be the perfect archetype to which all
other countries ought to conform in politics, religion, and economics. The American project is the end of history
for them, before which and after which nothing better is to be found.
Taking into consideration
what is written in the Holy Scriptures as well as Church history, we have a
different theory. It is not unusual to
see the Lord raise up powerful new countries and empires in the world in order
to chastise His wayward people. Such was
the case with the Assyrians and Babylonians in the Old Testament, whom He sent
against the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah to bring the latter two to their
senses after falling deeply into sin.
Such was the case with the Arian Vandals who persecuted the Orthodox
Church in northern Africa in the 5th century and with the Muslim
Arabs and Turks who likewise scourged the Orthodox in Africa, western Asia, and
eastern Europe from the 7th to the 19th centuries, and
still today in some of those places.
In light of these things, it
seems plausible that the United States are not God’s chosen country but rather
a tool that He brought to prominence for two purposes:
(1) To limit the extent of
the Communist menace that rose up in Russia, Romania, Serbia, and elsewhere in
the 20th century to cure the Russians and the other Orthodox of
their rebelliousness against Christ, to continually challenge the Communist
regime and eventually bring it down when through genuine repentance those
countries had cleansed themselves of the stains of their sins; and
(2) To offer a place of
sanctuary to which the persecuted Orthodox from those countries could flee and
continue to live their Orthodox way of life in peace during the years that
darkness enshrouded their homelands.
As evidence of this, we note
how remarkably quickly the States have declined since the fall of Communism in
the Orthodox countries mentioned above.
The reasons for their being a great power having been accomplished, the
Lord no longer had any reason to give them any special help; He returned His
favor instead to Russia and the other Orthodox countries, who had begun to look
to the God of their fathers once again.
Because of this, the United
States, having been a seed-bed of heresies and sinful passions from their early
days, are decaying rapidly after the loss of God’s Grace.
And yet an inglorious death
does not have to be the final chapter for the States. . . .
The rest may be read here:
https://www.geopolitika.ru/en/article/why-do-united-states-exist
Also in Russian:
https://katehon.com/ru/article/pochemu-ssha-sushchestvuyut
--
Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
to the Union!
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