Editing Promised Land (section)

==== American colonialism ====
Many [[European colonization of the Americas|European colonists]] saw America as the "Promised Land", representing a haven from [[European wars of religion|religious conflicts]] and [[Religious persecution|persecution]]. For instance, [[Puritan]] minister [[John Cotton (minister)|John Cotton]]'s 1630 sermon [[wikisource:God’s Promise to His Plantation|God's Promise to His Plantation]] gave colonizers departing [[England]] to [[Massachusetts]] repeated references to the Exodus story, and later [[German immigrants in the United States|German immigrants]] sang: "America ... is a beautiful land that God promised to Abraham."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-07-12 |title=America as the Promised Land |url=https://www.museumofthebible.org/book-minute/america-as-the-promised-land |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230314193508/https://www.museumofthebible.org/book-minute/america-as-the-promised-land |archive-date=2023-03-14 |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=[[Museum of the Bible]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

In a sermon celebrating [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|independence in 1783]], [[Yale University|Yale]] president [[Ezra Stiles]] implied [[American exceptionalism|Americans were chosen]] and delivered from bondage to a Promised Land: "the Lord shall have made his American Israel 'high above all nations which he hath made',"<ref>{{Cite book |last=McDougall |first=Walter A. |date=1997 |title=Promised Land, Crusader State |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/mcdougal-promised.html |access-date=2023-12-09 |via=The New York Times |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |isbn=0-395-83085-0}}</ref> reflecting language from Deuteronomy of the promise.

[[Shawnee]]/[[Lenape]] scholar Steven Newcomb argued in his 2008 book ''Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Newcomb |first=Steven T. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HeDKUXsOC9cC |title=Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery |date=2008 |publisher=Fulcrum Publishing |isbn=978-1-55591-642-8 |language=en}}</ref> that [[Christendom]]'s [[discovery doctrine]] was also the same claim of "the right to kill and plunder non-Christians" found in this covenant tradition, whereby "the Lord" in Deuteronomy told his chosen people how they were to "utterly destroy" the "many nations before thee" when "He" brought them into the land "He" had discovered and promised to "His" "Chosen People" to "possess", and that this "right" was woven into US law through the 1823 [[Johnson v. McIntosh]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] ruling.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Newcomb |first=Steven |date=2020-08-22 |title="God's" Gift of a Right of Domination |url=https://originalfreenations.com/gods-gift-of-a-right-of-domination/ |access-date=2023-12-09 |website=ORIGINAL FREE NATIONS |language=en-US}}</ref>

===== Mormonism =====
{{Main article|Mormonism#America}}
[[Mormonism]] teaches that the [[United States]] is the Biblical promised land, the [[Constitution of the United States|U.S. Constitution]] divinely inspired, and [[Mormons]] God's chosen people.