The underlying flaws of this nation’s foundation that the author describes are really a function of Protestant ideology more than anything else. The U.S. could never have adopted a Christian identity even if its founders wanted it. Because the U.S. was established after the Reformation, it was impossible for the founders to even agree on what version of “Christianity” would serve as its cornerstone.
Agreed. But then Jefferson was a deist, a son of the secular Enlightenment whose rejection of miracles and his utopian bent that saw ‘happiness’ as a Constitutional right (who can guarantee happiness?) and inclusion of Islam and mystical pantheism would eventually unleash the confusion, mayhem, and destructive forces overwhelming our land today.