Islamic Foundations of American Revolution

The American Revolution marked the culmination of the European Enlightenment era. It represented a significant departure from the centuries-old hereditary monarchical system that had governed France and other European nations from the Middle Ages to premodern times. The ancient regime, which encompassed the monarchy, clergy, and nobility, held absolute power. This absolute authority was rooted in religious principles established by Church Fathers, particularly St. Augustine in the fourth and fifth centuries.

At the heart of this absolutist system was the close relationship between the Church and the state, emphasizing the divine right of monarchs and the divine authority of the Church. The Church's theological doctrines, such as original sin, fallen nature, human depravity, divine intervention through the incarnation and redemptive crucifixion of Christ, and a grace-based salvific worldview, played a central role in shaping this absolute model of divine authority in both the Church and the monarchy.

However, this absolutist system also led to abuse and persecution, resulting in policies that were detrimental to human rights, freedoms, and republican values. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the British Crown and the Anglican Church were particularly responsible for perpetuating these persecutions in the American colonies. The American Revolution emerged as a rebellion against both the British monarchy and its religious counterpart, the Church of England.

To challenge this absolutist system, the early revolutionaries had to critically examine and deconstruct the foundational principles of the Christian belief system. This required a religious analysis of the core tenets of Christianity, its scriptures, and its worldview, with the goal of dismantling the religious foundations that supported the ancient and persecutory absolutism. Consequently, the Founding Fathers of America found themselves dissecting Christian theology, scriptures, and worldview, subjecting them to rigorous analysis, critique, and ultimately rejection. This process included questioning the Trinitarian doctrine, the concept of the Incarnation, supernatural beliefs, the redemptive narrative, and even Christianity itself.

The outcome of this intellectual and religious transformation was a hybrid belief system that stood in stark contrast to historical Christianity and its supernatural, mysterious dogmas. Instead, it embraced a more natural, rational, simplistic, and democratic religious ideology, which aligned with the humanistic and republican political theology. This Unitarian republican perspective bore a much stronger resemblance to Islamic Unitarian theology than to the Christian Trinitarian worldview. This rational theology paved the way for the American Revolution, a transformative moment in history.

To gain a comprehensive understanding of the American Revolution, it is essential to examine historical Christianity and its foundational principles, particularly the absolute authority of the Church and monarchy, which were the primary challenges the revolution and Enlightenment sought to overcome."