> We were founded by deeply religious Christians who were exactly the opposite of that mindset.
This is ahistorical nonsense. You’re really saying the country of “Manifest Destiny” had no attitude of “Fuck you, I got mine” because they were deeply religious Christians?
Not to mention “Christian” has been bastardized so hard that I find it hard to imagine there’s really much overlap between what a “Christian” today believes vs what they believed in 1776. Let’s take, for example, their recorded views on the “personhood” of indigenous peoples (and Africans!) and whether they were capable of being saved by Christ. Never mind the absolute multitude of sects that existed then but don’t exist now and vice versa.
Your perspective is one of myth-building and religious supremacy, which is well-refuted by the significant evidence in the form of history books as well as primary sources.
> Tough the may have traded with natives
How benevolent.
You should really read about what it actually means to perform a genocide on indigenous peoples. The ugly side. Read the diary of Thomas Thistlewood, a self-proclaimed Christian. Let me know how you feel about the passage where he forced an enslaved person to defecate into another enslaved person’s mouth.