#4
Your reply is ambiguous. In context, you assert that God’s preferential blessing and protection of “America the Great and Good from the rest of Puny and Bad world” in inherent “in the notion of American exceptionalism.” But you do not say that Marty personally accepts as true that the Good and Great United States of America is preferentially protected by Almighty God from the outside world.

R&R accepted that concept without reserve, and ascribes that meaning to Trump.

But, Marty, I judge you to be far more sophisticated, more intellectually astute, than either R&R or Donald Trump. Therefore, I have been trying to elicit from you a more sophisticated understanding of God’s protection of America (or indeed any country or person or institution). Instead, you appear to me to be ducking the essential God-part of The Question by affirming American exceptionalism and American patriotism.

So again, your “[S]crap God for the moment and read the article,” is non-responsive.