I guess they also forgot about the “Great Awakening,” which provided the theological underpinnings of the American Revolution.
My fear is that God is going to tire of His being spat upon by us and slap us a good one up aside our collective heads. He may have already launched the blow. He did it to the Israelites several times over their history.
You won’t find a better source of original documents than those collected here. From 500 BC to 1800 AD.
http://www.constitution.org/primarysources/primarysources.html