A country that had started with the ostensible thesis that it was about God acted more and more like it was about men. That kind of alternative thesis is needed to keep something like chattel slavery up.
I’m ashamed to see “conservatism” which is about men. It can’t hope to beat “liberalism.”
Who ran the underground railroads? I don’t think there were too many high minded atheists involved.
Go away, please.
The religious roots of this country were extremely weak. They had to add a religious element to it because otherwise they couldn't justify the American Revolution at all. The King of England wasn't just a civil ruler; he was also the head of the Church of England.
That's why religion had almost no role -- other than legal protection against the establishment of an official national religion -- in the founding of the country.