American religion

..."What was new with the American experiment in religious liberty (and implicitly in religious diversity) was the rationale used by both secularists and the devout for this new arrangement of religion and public life." D. G. Hart

An "arrangement" of over-reaction against the abuses of the European Christian nations, secularism, and an overall bowing down to the Enlightenment ideals of which we are now paying dearly... Jesus as Lord should have pervaded the Constitution and all government work. Not that by doing so would have ensured spiritual utopia but we should have declared Jesus our King instead of ourselves (the people, demos)