William+Bradford

William Bradford As far as religious activity in America, William Bradford certainly played an essential part in Christianity and wanted it and democracy to have a powerful influence in the New World, but in my opinion, what the United States is today is nothing like what he envisioned centuries ago. The democratic process is slowly but surely breaking down with it's recent rupture of certain civil liberties such as the privacy of the average American citizen. He wouldn't have wanted his preferred government to allow things that he was certainly against like same-sex marriages and abortions. I believe he visualized a country where he and his fellow Separatists could create, by their standards, a morally acceptable society where the principals of the Bible on which they stood on could predominate over every-day life. Instead, America has totally excluded from the government the Christian foundations Bradford and other Separatists raised, and democracy can no longer be fully trusted by citizens. I don't think that William's vision has been truly carried out by modern day America, and he would be disappointed in what we've become.