INTRODUCTION
I extend my argument as correction point to the early Christian Masonic focus on Greco-Roman and Jewish influences, to the writings of Russell Kirk about American Roots, and to the arguments of the Religious Right and entire Christian Zionist culture. My editorial project is centered on reviving classical republicanism as the authentic ideological foundation of the United States, constituting a thorough, systematic, and uncompromising refutation of the claim that “there would be no United States of America without Jews and Christianity” or that the Republic rests on a “Judeo-Christian perspective of our civilization.” The American Republic was forged from Greco-Roman civic philosophy, Enlightenment rationalism, deistic natural rights, and eclectic classical traditions (Stoicism, pre-Stoic humanism, and Masonic-influenced symbolism). These are explicitly not dependent on Abrahamic exceptionalism, messianic narratives, or any “Judeo-Christian” synthesis. Such claims are treated as modern political inventions that distort history, give way to apocalyptic supremacism, and threatens the secular republic.
Republicanism is the Enlightenment’s creed, a “loose tradition” running from Cicero and Roman historians through Machiavelli, Harrington, Sidney, Montesquieu, and the American founders (Jefferson, Madison, Adams). It stresses civic virtue, liberty as non-domination, mixed constitution, rule of law, and resistance to arbitrary power — all this, drawn from pagan classical antiquity, not scripture. Gordon S. Wood stated that “republicanism was the ideology of the Enlightenment (…) classical republicanism was its creed.” The founders were classicists trained in Greco-Roman sources, and American neoclassical architecture and symbolism (fasces, Columbia, etc.) consciously revived the Roman Republic, which embraced elements of government and attitudes toward education and martial philosophy from the Spartans, Athenians, the Carolingian renaissance and the later Italian and German and renaissances among others as models to construct a unique mixed republic, that would avoid tyrannical rulers, divine-right monarchies and the errors of past governments that have followed a pattern of degeneration and decline. It is why it is called an experiment, not because it is a secret plot designed by an evil “cabal.” Clearly, the system is being abused, tested and stretched to its limits by the very people republican-minded citizens ought to be knowledgeable in guarding against.
The Republic was not “brought into the world” by Jews or Christianity. It was a deliberate reconstruction of ancient Roman civic philosophy, filtered through Renaissance humanism and Enlightenment secular vision of government, which has been attacked by anti-revolutionary conservatives since who have sought to blame everything on the move away from natural hierarchy, monarchy, etc. Jefferson’s “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights” is merely a near-direct paraphrase of Cicero and Seneca’s universal “divine spark” (though inherent in all humans, not just men or white men), secularized into natural rights — and it does not originate in Judeo-Christianity. Pre-Stoic roots in human rights theory trace the same idea back further, gradually secularized through Renaissance humanists, Locke, and the founders.
John Adams said the U.S. Constitution is “made for a moral and religious people,” in reference to republicanism itself functioning as a civic religion or a way of life emphasizing virtue and the common good, and not Christianity as a state creed. “America is a Christian nation” mythology, Protestant intolerances and “Christian cultism” only degenerate the republican legacy.
Netanyahu is the central figure in a dangerous modern psychotic political right driven by eschatological accelerationism. Netanyahu’s public declarations that the “era of the Mashiach has come,” his ties to Rabbi Menachem Schneerson (who reportedly told him he would “pass the scepter to the Messiah”), and his invocation of “reaching the kingdom” during the 2026 Iran conflict is a characteristically apocalyptic supremacism. This fusion of Jewish messianism with Christian Zionist end-times prophecy is a threat to secular governance and the Republic itself.
It is vital that we begin disenfranchising evangelical influence in U.S. politics and military.
My stance extends to any “Judeo-Christian” exceptionalism. We demote the “chosen people” doctrine and messianic exclusivity as “late rhetorical inventions” designed for tribal cohesion, not as a universal truth. The Jewish Messiah concept was originally borrowed from Near Eastern royalist ideology and is not a foundation for Western civilization.
I have written articles that can help us to build argumentation against religious exceptionalist interpretations of U.S. government. In Our Pre-Stoic Roots in Human Rights Theory in the United States and Prophetic Pluralism and Oracular Enlightenment in Pre-Socratic Philosophy, I explain that human dignity and rights originate in ancient philosophical and theosophical concepts of a universal divine spark (reason), later secularized. Enlightenment thinkers (many deists) drew more from Locke, Montesquieu, and classics rather than from Biblical literalism.
The Critique of Arnaud Bertrand’s The Civilization that Never Needed God rejects any single-source secular narrative, because American republicanism is a hybrid of classical antiquity, theistic deism and Western philosophy; and therefore, not purely atheistic or Abrahamic.
My articles on Black Republicanism from January and on Early Black intellectuals (Wheatley to Douglass) demonstrate how our Black intellectuals mastered Greco-Roman classics precisely to refute ridiculous racial inferiority claims and expose the hypocrisy of a slaveholding republic, proving republican ideals are universal tools against domination, not ethnic or religious property.
It even began before these articles in my “Religion Approach” page and essays on Illuminati panic and Masonic duty, that Republicanism is framed as a progressive, eclectic civic vision compatible with secularism and enlightenment philosophy, explicitly opposing theocratic or messianic visions. Conspiracy myths that inflate Jewish and occult influence are dismissed as ahistorical distractions that weaken civic literacy.
From my perspective, Netanyahu’s claim is not merely historically false but is the exact form of religious-psychotic supremacism my writings combat. The United States was not midwifed by any Abrahamic exceptionalism but born from the classical republican tradition’s fight against arbitrary power, revived through Enlightenment reason and deistic humanism. To claim otherwise erases Cicero, the Roman Republic, Stoic universalism, and the founders’ deliberate turn toward pagan classics and natural rights. It replaces evidence-based civic virtue with eschatological theater that endangers the Republic’s survival. The mission is to arm citizens with this knowledge so they can reject such myths, preserve secular republicanism, and continue the revolution of ideas against domination — whether from kings, priests or self-proclaimed messianic intermediaries. Netanyahu’s claim is simply the latest symptom of the modern political class degenerating into religious psychosis we must rein in. Instead, many of the people believe in the myths and expectations so badly, they rather let the politicians continue this political theater, perhaps in hopes that those expectations bring about prophecies. I am not sure, but it is a threat against secular republicanism.
I am working to bring more context to the movements of the early republican revolutionaries, their networks and various developments in different parts of the world that Garibaldi and Mazzini sparked, and the differences in these visions from Theodor Herzl and Zionism.
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