A Perspective on Our American Revolution (Part 1)

My cousin’s Sunday School class is looking at our American Revolution to put today’s issues for American Christianity in perspective. He asked me to give some background before they watch the PBS program on the Revolution. This piece is the first of a series writing out “Our Biblical Worldview-ed American Revolution”. Consider our American Revolution: Who did it? What were they thinking? And you.

Decades ago, when I knew I was going to teach U.S. Government as my first teaching assignment at West Point, I made a personal quest to understand why we had a revolution. As a graduate student I had access to the stacks of the second largest library in the world. I got to dig through old books, hand bills, and sermons.

My conclusion then was “a bunch of well-armed pissed-off Protestants revolted to keep the Rights of Englishmen”.

Decades later, I updated that to “In 1775 after a revolutionary season of 12 years, one third of the Enlightenment Era, Dissident Protestant British people across four regional cultures (in 13 separate Colonies) took up arms to keep the Rights their ancestors won in the previous century.”

Furthermore, these Patriots shared an American Revolutionary Biblical Worldview which became the consensus culture of these United States of America from their Declaration of Independence in 1776 until 1962. All Americans assimilated into that culture and American Civilization before the 1960s.

Which pointedly leads to “the Biblical Worldview of Evangelical Christians in 2025 is the evolved Biblical Worldview of the American Revolution.”

And, likewise the worldview of Conservative American Catholics, Orthodox, and Jews is closely aligned, if not greatly overlapping, that of Evangelicals. The differences in theology are evident but less consequential than the concurrence in worldviews.

Because “Culture Commands”.

The Conservative half of the U.S. holds the same worldview.

The American Revolutionary Worldview includes:

• The Christian God – Father, Son, Holy Spirit – lives. (Jews respect this belief, while believing in the God of the Torah)
• Life is a sacred gift from God. Man is created in God’s image.
• Law originates with God. Natural laws are supreme. Government is limited.
• Individual Rights come from God. God, alone, is just.
• Individualism is important. Individual salvation and responsibilities.
• Humans are born sinfull.
• God ordains private property and person profit earned honestly.
• Everyone who can work must work.
• Wisdom is knowing God.
• Ten Commandments are ethical and moral basis for society.

And, much more – including important understandings about Natural Law, covenant governments, limited government, individual and property rights.

That worldview evolved.

The American society which condoned slavery as the way of the world found the Biblical reasons for rejecting the concept as sin. Likewise, racial segregation and racial prejudice moved from accepted circumstances to anathema. Homosexuals are tolerated when their behavior used to be criminal.

Yet, the worldview remains embedded in The Word. The Bible. Furthermore, the literate people who try to live their lives according to the words written on paper are most likely to adhere to the written covenants in Constitutions. They may even subordinate their personal interests to the Rule of Law.

Our Biblical American Revolution worldview is very different from the worldview from the French Revolution.

Finally, only one culture at a time rules. From the tiniest tribe to the greatest civilization, the “diversity” of ethnicity, language, religious minorities, etc. never changes the fact that only one culture commands a society at a time. There is no such thing as “multi-culturalism”.

At America’s national founding, a Biblical-worldview shaped the consensus culture which united four regional sub-cultures.

This understanding is quite different from the Critical Race Theory lens of PBS and other Liberals who imagine the diversity of their politically-correct list of oppressor and oppressed groups shaped the American Revolution.

Next: The 4 regional (Sub) cultures which shaped America and still matter today.

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