Whether the modern man wants to believe it or not, he cannot change the simple fact that this (once) great American nation was founded on a moral and spiritual compass. Even those who did not profess to be Christians - and some of whom even proclaimed themselves anything but - agreed that Christianity namely and morality in general were the saving grace of such a government as they wished to build. The founding fathers of the "greatest nation on earth" believed that self-annihilation of a country would come about when there were no more morals to govern us by.
Take a look at their words. Still don't believe it? Then let everyone know you are willfully ignorant and stop pretending to argue from a factual position.
"Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure...are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments." -Charles Carroll
"Without Religion this World would be Something not fit to be mentioned in polite Company, I mean Hell." - John Adams
"“It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.” -Patrick Henry
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? " - Thomas Jefferson
"To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. . . . Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow from them, must fall with them." -Jedediah Morse
“ It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas they should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the author of them: for all the principles of science are of divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles: he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.” “ The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal.” - Thomas Paine
“ Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” - John Jay
"For my own part, I sincerely esteem it [the Constitution] a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests." - Alexander Hamilton
“If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into our world would have been unnecessary.” -Benjamin Rush
“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed...No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.” -Noah Webster
"We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!" - John Adams, John Hancock
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