Of the thirteen original colonies, only two - Massachusetts and Rhode Island - had any religious component to their founding.
The other eleven were founded for commercial and political reasons.
Of the two with a religious component one - Rhode Island - was founded by settlers fleeing from the religious persecution visited upon them by the settlers of the Massachusetts colonies.
And the persecutors who ran the Massachusetts colonies were actually a minority of the colonists - they had the land patents, but most of the settlers were recruited from a variety of Englishmen seeking their fortunes, not people motivated by a particular sect.
99% of the first generation of permanent American colonists were there for commerce, not theology.
You mean "cod and not God."
While there is truth in this, and offsets the idea that all the Founders and ppl were evangelical Christians, yet it is misleading and biased it is inferring that the founders and people same were a bunch of secularists who had little interest in the Christian faith. That America was distinctly Christian is abundantly evidenced, and was reflected in in government and education.
And which was the reason for the 1st Amendment, to assure freedom to be so after their particular faith, versus required submission to an official State religion, which is much the case now as a result of increased secularization, with its indoctrination of ethos which largely increasingly functions as religion.
There can never be the manner of antiseptic separation of religion from State the way strict separatists seem to demand as regards Christian faith, but as in the past, the government will reflect what people who elect them really believe in terms of commitment, though this is becoming more difficult.
May you have a God night