I remember once having a discussion with a professor in his office at Tel Aviv University. Yes, he replied. Birobidzhan attracted few Jewish settlers and ceased to exist as a Jewish region in 1992. A real Israel re-emerged among the countries of the world in 1948. America was supposed to have a tiny government that did not favor one religion over another, but that also left people free to live their faith.
Government is no longer small, nor does it leave people free.
As in Birobidzhan, a systematic effort is far advanced to squeeze all religious content out of every sphere controlled by the ever-enlarging State. And churches are cowed into silence by the Clinton Administration's demonstrated willingness to remove a church or religious organization's tax-exempt status if it dares in public to question the morality of the government or of Leftist officeholders. But, hey, this too comes from the Christian cross and cannot be supported in any way with government dollars, facilities, or equipment. The Red Cross-like organizations elsewhere on Earth recognize its religious symbolism and use instead a Star of David in Israel and the Crescent of Islam in Muslim nations. Government licenses for television and radio stations are monopoly grants of bandspace on the public broadcast spectrum.