Integralism vs. America's Democratic Founding Principles

Traditionally, American evangelicals are enthusiasts for the country's founding principles. Sometimes, in their zeal, they get carried away, exaggerating Christianity's influence among the Founders. But evangelicals are largely correct to honor the principles of human equality and liberty that ultimately originate in the Bible's view of humans imaging God. American democracy, although of course littered with human sin, has providentially gifted unprecedented freedom, prosperity, and opportunity to hundreds of millions of people of all faiths and no faith.