英语专业毕业论文-On the Influence of Christianity on America Foreign Policy.doc

On the Influence of Christianity on America Foreign Policy PAGE PAGE 1 Introduction： American diplomacy was influenced by the nature of society and its citizen behavior deeply, but the social nature and the style of American citizenship behavior was affected by American Christianity greatly, especially the thought of Puritan. Consequently, American foreign policy was controlled by Christian idea, and America also made Christian idea come true as their purpose of their government’s diplomacy. At the very beginning, America was founded by a group of Protestants who moved to the new world from Europe for religious reasons, and carrying out their Protestant idea as their purpose to build America. So America was a country founded on Protestant ideology at the very beginning. It drove by the idea of Protestant and aimed to practice Protestant idea. The Protestant value was the root of American value, and also the leading force in American diplomacy nowadays. Under the influence of religion, America is not a normal secular country. Generally speaking, a secular country will maintain a benefit principle in diplomacy, but to American diplomacy we must take the religious element into consideration, so that we can clearly get why many American diplomacy are not always correspond with benefit principle. In foreign affairs, they always make human rights as a very important charge to other countries. In the foreign activities, American always require the other side to improve human rights essentially, even in top meeting the state leader will put forward the issue of human rights serious-minded and unmannered. To American, the human right was a gift from god, and should be respected in any country, and god gives American a duty to defend human right. From the beginning of America, American people got a strong feeling of responsibility, because they think god give the new world to them and they are the chosen people of god, so they have to make god’s glory full of world. Americ