First of all, Americans were connected to the Holy Land by considering it as the fifth gospel. The first gospels being Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and now the fifth one was considered as the land of Palestine. According to Rogers in Inventing the Holy Land, American Protestants looked for changing the religious system and searched for “basic, original, and undeniable truths of the Gospel” and the Holy land was the perfect example (Rogers 32). Since the previous four gospels are only scriptures, the “fifth gospel” was viewed as a “material revelation” and can be visited and experienced by…