I think that what is increasingly clear is that after the revolution a number of heresies were introduced into american christianity--the formost of which was that Jesus was fully man but not fully God. This american version of arianism was perhaps what Melville was referring to when he began the book Moby Dick with the words "Call Me Ishmael"
Arias was an early 4th century egyptian who claimed that Jesus was fully man but not fully God. This heresy was dealt with during the Council of Niceia in Constantanople in 325 AD--and its from this council that the Niceian Creed comes. It is also thought that a version of Arianism came from Egypt to Saudi Arabia two centuries later. And it was this form of Christianity that Mohammed heard.
The arian heresy today is held to in the American liberal protestant denominations and the Jehovah witnesses.
I think that what is increasingly clear is that after the revolution a number of heresies were introduced into american christianity...I don't disagree with your facts, however I fail to see a cause and effect--relating to the War of Independence, unless that is the fact that we have freedom of religion in the USA.
The remake of the Arian heresy you mention in liberal Protestant denomintions was orginally almost entirely an import from Europe--Germany leading the way. I find it fascinating that a virtually dead German liberal church was the soil from which Nazism grew....