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There are many lenses one can see most of the bible through, no doubt. But to somehow imagine that - wait, where's that quote? I mean, (1) "for particularly narrow interpretations of 'Americans'" (2) it's the same story that makes plague blankets and death marches okay. "I'm oppressed, it's payback time." Having read up extensively on the Puritans, what they believed and what they were fleeing, I for one long for a country that never attempts to emulate them in any way, shape or form and I'm a middle-class, middle-aged white male.For most of the past 400 years, Americans did have an overarching story. It was the Exodus story.