This really is a great read. Thanks for the post.
It is of course in the nature of the claim that the United States evolved as a "Christian" nation.
Imagine how many people reading this loathe the claim, from the New York Times to the Duke University History Department. It is largely a matter of placing one's self in another venue, a matter of imagination, and identification with it - to walk in another man's shoes-. I had an old friend who as a history major always insisted on how it, the study of history, did require "imagination," which I, as a math/science type, never understood; but have come to, much later in life.
For me the failure to empathize with the past is the greatest human tragedy. And reflects the very character of Leftism, the desperate need for the personal Ego to construct its own perceptions, and overwrite past lessons. In other words juvenilism, the triumph of Ego over truth.
Johnny Suntrade
Well met.