When America was founded, a majority of its Founders were practicing Christians. A majority of Americans are nominal Christians today. A majority of Americans are practicing Christians today. Christianity is the religion officially established by our Federal Government. The American system of government was shaped and formed by the Christian world view.
American culture is shaped by the Christian world view.
The first and third possibilities are obviously true. The fourth and fifth possibilities are obviously not true, while the second is debatable. The sixth obviously was true, but that system is certainly in a process of change from those principles upon which it was founded. Tragically, the seventh was true, but certainly it is not true any longer. By this, he was not suggesting that the United States either had or required an official religion, comparable to the Church of England, or that the machinery of government should be harnessed to the propagation of religious dogma.