I will admit that I was hoping you would let it go, but a liar I am not.

Just a spouter of untruths, I'd say.

but it has zero relevance to the average American teenager.

Only it doesn't. Ideals borrowed from Parisian intellectuals influenced the laws that they live under. Not knowing something does not mean it has zero influence.

Again, if you are so adamant about proving your point go to church sometime and prove it.

You're saying that American churches no longer talk about charity, community, unity or American Exceptionalism?

" We must be knit together in this work as one man, we must entertain each other in brotherly affection, we must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities for the supply of others' necessities. We must uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience and liberality..."

"His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world; we shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God and all professors for God's sake; we shall shame the faces of many of God's worthy servants, and cause their prayers to be turned into curses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whither we are going."

"Secondly, that he might have the more occasion to manifest the work of his Spirit: first upon the wicked in moderating and restraining them: so that the rich and mighty should not eat up the poor nor the poor and despised rise up against and shake off their yoke. Secondly, In the regenerate, in exercising his graces in them, as in the great ones, their love, mercy, gentleness, temperance, etc., in the poor and inferior sort, their faith, patience, obedience, etc."

These are not ideas alien to the modern church.

But let's say they are. Let's say that they're a million miles off. How can you deny the influence? How can you call it irrelevant?