American conservatives recognize this at some level. But at another, in order to be "true Americans," they have to split themselves in two, one half devoted to G-d and the other to Thomas Jefferson.
This is the foundational flaw of our country.
>> they have to split themselves in two
Not unless the foundation from which the tenets of liberty originate is none other than through the truth of Christianity, with the grandfather of Judaism of course.
There is no flaw. It is what it is. And it precedes the birth of the US by thousands of years.