tbf, manifest destiny was originally an american idea
Calling dibs on someone else’s land is probably a much older idea than any country on the map today.
oh certainly, but justifying it with “because god said so” is very much american (tho not exclusively, and they probably weren’t the first)
The Promised Land was originally God’s idea.
The Promised Land was originally God’s idea.
Strangely, it was the idea of every God that every religion has ever conceived of.
God was originally the idea of bossy humans, though.
You’re right. The Dutch, and the Spanish, and the English, and the Romans were all totally content with what they had.
And the lord said…“Let there be might!”.
GREENLAND BELONGS TO THE NORDS!
I would guess Mormonism might make claims like that.
They make way funnier claims like the garden of eden was in Missouri
