That would by your above reckoning include almost all of our Founding Fathers. By the decree of King Geroge III himself who delcared them 'fanatics' and 'rabble'.
If therefore I must be considered a 'fanatic' - per the application of your doctrine - then AMEN! Consider me a fanatic! I proudly stand beside our Foundign Fathers and their fanaticiscm that established the liberty and freedom you take for granted, spit upon and ridicule in your smug condescension.
"The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause........"
America's history and Greatness and arrival as the lone Superpower of the globe proves your oft-quoted mantra as utter nonsense and secular excrement of the most distasteful kind.
America's founding was upon the CAUSE of liberty to RE-ESTABLISH the Law of God as the Sovereign by which we are consented to be governed. The Tribe of Christian Peoples who founded this new world considered themselves and the establishment of this nation as a City on a Hill - a Spiritual Israel built upon the Church of Christianity.
The diary writings from John Bradford on through the statements, speeches, letters and personal entries in journals of the Founders through to Abraham Lincoln bear-out that incontravertible fact.
So by your own definition of the mantra by which you are beholden; America was founded by, established and populated by a majority bunch of fanatics.
You must be French...or worse.