I wrote this article and yes, I am an American, born and raised. I too have travelled to many other countries. I am most certainly NOT anti-American, which you would see if you read the first sentence of the conclusion: “None of this is to argue necessarily that any of these things are bad.”

This article does not argue that America is bad, but rather that it is not Christian. For example, I think lust and greed are actually very positive forces if used responsibly. But they are decidedly contrary to Christianity. Therefore America is not Christian in those areas. Doesn’t mean America or Americans are bad.

Yes, of course there are crimes, obesity, etc in other countries. But the statistics don’t lie. There is more crime in the US and more obesity than in other rich countries. It’s a simple fact.

It makes little sense to compare America to poor, backward dictatorial societies because they are in two completely different categories. America is a rich, developed democratic society, so it must be compared against other rich, developed democratic societies.

so if a king somewhere in a country a long time ago was mean to his people and some of the people left and tried to fine new land because they had so much wrath against their unfair or brutal king, then that means that king did it himself, he made his bed abd the bed for people in the future.