Moral Relativism.
Bravo!!!!!! Excellent thread, very very well stated. I am often called “extreme”, or “black and white” (hence my NoGrayZone name)because I fall along the same line of thinking as you do, and apparently, as did our Founding Fathers and their fellow Americans.
If more of us started to be a little more “extreme” perhaps we can get Him back into society, although according to the Bible, we will not be accomplishing that dream.
But we still must try.
The founders came from a time when a person either progressed or failed depending on their accomplishments, where the act of succeeding and doing so at whatever pursuit deemed good was cause for respect and not disdain because you had accomplished something--because you did it with the help of God, and perhaps your family and some friends, not a government edict which said you would succeed.
It was routine to carve a farm out of wilderness, use the trees to build what you needed and for heat/cooking, and feed one's family with that farm, not be held as a criminal for cutting down a tree.
And where, aside from the Christian charity of your neighbors, there was no safety net in times of disaster, so you treated your neighbors in good times and bad as you wanted to be treated.
To be sure there were exceptions, but there was the opportunity to prosper by the sweat of your brow and not have the fruits of that labor forcibly removed from you to support those who would not labor.
While looking to God for a sense of moral sensibilities was part of that sensitivity to injustice, so was looking down at the calloused hands God had helped you build your prosperity with.